By Wayne Allensworth Westerns were once upon a time the most popular American film genre. And the great John Ford directed some of the best ones. Our greatest star in the Western film firmament was John Wayne, who was associated as a friend and collaborator with Ford for much of his career. Their names are inseparable in American film history. Movie buffs know the Ford-Wayne films that did so...
By Wayne Allensworth My wife and I were watching It’s a Wonderful Life for the umpteenth time the other night, and something stood out that I hadn’t thought of before. Early in the movie, when old man Potter, the story’s Scrooge character played by Lionel Barrymore, complains that the Building & Loan in which he holds shares has loaned the princely sum of $5,000 to Ernie Bishop, a cab driver...
By Wayne Allensworth LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be...
By Wayne Allensworth The electoral triumph of the Trump-Vance ticket was heartening to many of us. Though your observer remains wary of some of Trump’s cabinet nominees, the president-elect has shown signs of having learned some hard lessons from his last tussle with the Swamp. It’s been amusing — and gratifying — to watch the globo-leftists melt down, but we should not lapse into triumphalism or...
By Wayne Allensworth When the sky opens the rain can come down in curtains of dense water, obscuring your view. The wind picks up and the tree limbs begin their dance. It’s November. I was taking my morning walk, hoping that the dark clouds that were gathering would hold onto the drops of water within them for just a few more minutes. I walked and felt the cool wind pick up. And I noticed that...
By Wayne Allensworth White House permission for Ukraine to use ATACMS missile systems to strike targets in Russia, apart from territories annexed by Moscow, was in the works for some time. President Joe Biden was reluctant to greenlight such strikes, and wished to require certain restrictions on how those missiles could be used. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the use of such...
By Wayne Allensworth The usual suspects are at it again, claiming that anyone who deviates from the globalist neocon-neoliberal foreign policy agenda is a Russian agent. As Glenn Greenwald said on his System Update podcast, an indispensable source in this election year, the loathsome David Frum, one time George W. Bush speechwriter, is sneering at Trump’s nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as Director...
By Wayne Allensworth As I wrote earlier this week, Trump 2.0 seems to have learned some things from his first term: Team Trump is far more organized than previously and appears to have a plan of action. Trump announced he would not bring in hawkish neoconservatives like Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley for positions in his administration, which seemed to be a good sign. The Wall Street Journal, for...
By Wayne Allensworth It has been my hope that a more thoughtful, circumspect President-elect Donald Trump, one who could wisely choose U.S. Senator J.D. Vance as his vice president, learned something from his first joust with The Swamp. It appears that he has. Trump is serious about his agenda. He will not appoint neoconservatives and GOP backstabbers like Niki Haley, Tom Cotton, and Mike Pompeo...
By Wayne Allensworth When Joe Biden spoke at the White House following Donald Trump’s electoral and popular-vote blowout of Kamala Harris, a friend pointed out to me that Biden had promised a peaceful transfer of power. That was strange, given that he and the rest of the Democrats had for years been saying for years that Trump was an “existential threat to our democracy.” So, they really didn’t...
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