John T. Reed’s news blog

I got my copy of West Point whistleblower Tim Bakken’s book The Cost of Loyalty. He was a law professor at West Point for 20 years and because of his official whistleblower status is still a law professor there in spite of being in the doghouse with the brass..I just read the preface. He is an excellent writer and I agree with everything he said. I am very hard to please, but he managed not to gave me anything I could quibble with..Two of the things in the preface were facts that I cannot confirm or deny—a computer failure at...

The Dems are singing Happy Days Are Here Again because the stock market is falling and, can they hope, maybe they will get the great political gift of thousands of Americans getting sick and dying from covid 19. . Dems say he did not ask for enough money to fight the virus. . He can ask for more later if it is needed. . And why should the Dem habit of throwing taxpayer money at problems be the rule? It has been said that a crash program is assigning nine men to getting a woman pregnant so that the baby...

My better format for the presidential debates, if they should even exist at all. . Each participant is in a different place connected electronically to a New York. When it is their turn, their camera and mic turn on and they can answer a moderator question. . When their time is up, their camera and mic turn off, in mid-sentence if they do not wrap it up in accordance with the countdown timer that they can see. . A judge like Judge Napolitano enforces my honest debate rules instantly with a button that shuts off the camera and mic of...

It may be that the Democrat debates are over. By the time the next one happens—March 15th—the delegates from 21 states will already have been chosen. Based on money, it appears only the billionaires and Bernie will be left then. . America need to go to my sweet-sixteen tournament system which, by the way, awards no automatic ballot space to parties regardless of how well they did in any prior election. Only candidate names are on the ballots after the first one—no party names. Parties can exist and nominate someone, but that will not get him or her on the...

I finished reading my solar electricity book. What a freaking complicated mess! All the libs ought to have to take a course where they end up building a small solar installation like solarizing a home office..By the time they got done with all the safety and battery acid and care taking on the roof and inverters, controllers, automatic transfer switches, circuit breakers, GFI breakers, etc. I predict their enthusiasm for fantasy solar descending effortlessly from the sky will get a reality check..When my brother-in-law died and we cleaned out his house, we noticed a whimsical, solar-powered footpath light shaped and...