"Shogun for Persia" Please check out my latest novel, The Thread of Reason. It's a murder mystery set in Baghdad & western Persia in the year 1092, featuring Omar Khayyam. The murder happened in real life. The investigation & solution are my invention. amazon.com/dp/0985329750

RT @Interzone826: @MadMikeIsenberg @hughhewitt @WSJ Seems like a good topic to teach in… College

By infecting and killing memory B-cells, measles can literally un-vaccinate you. Maybe that’s why RFK Jr. likes it so much. He thinks it might cure autism.

There’s a saying: “you can’t eat money”. I can’t eat $2B. In fairness, I can’t eat $2B worth of bananas, either.

Because we are a developed country, why would we want our people producing a low value crop like bananas when we can have them manufacture high value products instead

I like bananas more then green paper I make at home

Indeed. Reshore American bananas!

Think of the Midwest banana farmers! Same for the Arkansas pineapple farmers.

Are Ashkenazic Jews descended from the Khazars? And if so, what are the implications for anti-Semitism? Part IV in my series about the powerful, mysterious Khazar Empire... michaelisenberg.substack.com…

.@ErichMSchwarz wins the Internet. I'm never deleting this app.

“If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we're actually losing $2 billion.” --Donald Trump. A good test for any candidate's grasp of economics is to ask whether they agree with this statement, and why or why not.

Now reading @NateSilver538's On the Edge. "In a world wired for chaos, these players are rewriting the rules. High-stakes, high-IQ, and often high on their own mythologies, they are driving the next era of finance, tech, and politics. But what happens when their bets go too far?" Just started, but I'm finding it fascinating so far. As someone who was trained in the sciences, I'm familiar with notions like Bayesian priors, expected values, and Nash equilibria. But the emergence of an ascendant subculture which combines these concepts with extreme but calculated risk taking is new to me. Given that I am, in many ways, stuck in the 1980s and '90s, the book is definitely helping me better understand the times in which we live now. amazon.com/Edge-Art-Risking-…

The Banana Wars. The U.S. military interventions and occupations in Central America and the Caribbean during the 1920s and 1930s were not formally declared wars by Congress. Presidents from Taft through Hoover sent Marines and naval forces into Nicaragua (occupied 1912–1925 and again 1926–1933), Haiti (1915–1934), the Dominican Republic (1916–1924), and shorter landings in Honduras, Guatemala, and Panama. Official justifications included protecting American lives and property, collecting debts, blocking European influence under the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and restoring order after local unrest. Congress appropriated funds and received reports but never passed a declaration of war. Read Smedley Butler’s book, War Is a Racket.

The question is when Commander in Chief ends and declaration of war begins. The current approach is cowardly and stupid. But that’s Congress for you.

Congress has been giving their powers away forever. It’s kind of their thing

The confusion is view the War Power as power. It's actually a responsibility, and while Congress loves power, it abhors responsibility.

It is a fact that presidents of both parties have been bombing the shit out of people for a good long while. A slippery slope. The problem was never the president had too little power. The problem is he really can't be stopped.