As I begin this posting, I look to my right and see.....a rainbow. Next, the Iran War: Yesterday, President Donald Trump warned Oman not to work with Iran to jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz . Oman has been a close strategic partner of the U.S. for 50 years, and has been involved in peacemaking. That article hinted that Trump was confused, as he has been recently, and misspoke in even mentioning Oman. As you can see, Iran and Oman are the two countries through which the strait passes, so a cooperative agreement actually makes a lot of sense. The strait is only 21 miles wide at the choke point, and you can see Iran from Oman. Yesterday, again, the U.S. struck Iran's Bandar Abbas. However, today the news is that the the U.S. and Iran reached a tentative deal to extend the ceasefire . What does this mean? First of all, this so-called deal is unofficial, as the agreement has no yet been approved by the leadership of either country. And where is Israel, still actively striking...
It's Wednesday, sci-tech day, so I'll this week draw from the American Energy Society information they send me. No big surprise that petroleum companies are getting richer because of the Iran War. But first a post-mortem of Ken Paxton's victory over John Cornyn in the Texas Republican primary. I thought Paxton would win by 10%. Turns out that the margin was 28 percentage point s, mostly because of President Donald Trump's endorsement. Time magazine had a particularly convictive article, starting with: For more than a year, Republicans beseeched President Donald Trump’s advisers in the White House with a simple ask: if he couldn’t find his way to endorsing Sen. John Cornyn , could he at least keep his mouth shut? Further: The point is that Cornyn would have beaten current Democratic Texas state representative James Talarico, who is 37 years old. At minimal cost. Now, the speculation is that the national Republican Party will need to...