I used Roman numerals this week for our third chapter in this series. Just because. And how perfect is this week’s song? It’s like they were talking about the Democratic Socialists of America. Bad ideas and ideologies never die. They just go into remission for a bit.

Now on to this week’s topic: Artificial Intelligence and Data Centers

So, the Part Deux has two origins. I took French throughout High School because back then, it was the language of diplomacy and I thought I should know that. But also, my favorite movies are always comedies, and Hot Shots, Part Deux is one of those. However, it was not as good as the Austin Powers trilogy, which may be the three finest films ever made.

But I digress.

Actually, we live in a very fast moving world. And whether you love him or hate him, we have a president who appears to be active 24 hours a day but I presume he has to sleep sometime, although I cannot discern when he does that.

I have a lot to say, and it will take me 4 or 5 weeks of missives to say it. So, here is Volume 1 of Thoughts on Everything

I am writing this on March 31, 2026. At this moment, I don’t know where the war in Iran is going. Neither do you. There is, of course, the oft repeated “fog of war”. Additionally however, neither side wants to tell their opponent what they are doing. Deception has always been a major part of war and in fact both sides may be publicly giving intentionally false information to confuse the enemy.

You all have not heard from me for a while for reasons I espoused in my previous missive. I was all ready to write one about 3 weeks ago which was to be entitled “The Economy and the Next Election.”

Then the war in Iran began. And all those matters I was going to write about suddenly became less important and immediate.

The Trump administration released its “National Security Strategy” in November of 2025. It is an extremely important document that outlines the strategy by which this administration will make all foreign policy decisions for the next three, and hopefully seven years, should JD Vance win in 2028.

This is the first missive you have had in a few weeks and the last one you will get this year. I am very busy with life and continue to have a few non-life threatening but annoying health issues which sideline me from time to time. So, I will take a sabbatical until January. When I come back, I am likely to make these monthly rather than weekly blogs. But, I’ll see how things stand in 2026!

Now to a quick round up of some issues right now:

“I’ve never seen it this bad,” you say. The country is so divided. The constitution is being shredded. The Communists and Islamists are taking over. We have an authoritarian government. The judiciary is out of control.

I could go on. You may never have seen it this bad. But that doesn’t mean that before you formed memories, it had never been like this.

Because it has.

Today, I’m going to take a step back from the day-to-day of shutdowns and other nonsense, and look at three issues from a broader perspective.

Bill Clinton beat George H.W. Bush for president in 1992 in no small part because of his campaign’s focus on “it’s the economy, stupid”. There were many other issues, as there always are. But the country was in recession and Clinton was able to lay the fault for that firmly at the feet of the incumbent president. It is hard for the party in power to win elections if the economy is in bad shape. There are many examples of this.

Tom Petty wrote this song after an arsonist set fire to his home in 1987. He believed it was a targeted attempt to murder him and his family, who were all home and having breakfast at the time. It was also his wife’s birthday. He was heavily impacted by the event and wrote the song “I Won’t Back Down” as a testament to not letting such terrorizing stop him from performing and writing music.

I have been writing this missives for over 25 years now. The last time I wrote one about this grave an event was in September of 2011. My friend Hugh Hewitt said on his radio show last week the the three most impactful events in his adult life were 9/11, October 7th and the assassination of Charlie Kirk in that order. I differ only in that I would put Charlie Kirk’s death above October 7th because it happened in the United States. I didn’t sleep for two nights after hearing about the assassination. It has profoundly affected me. And I know it did the same for many of you.

There are real problems out there. Not exactly a news flash, I understand. Yet somehow the Democratic Party ignores real problems and focuses on “problems” that they have manufactured out of thin air. This is not accidental. It is a strategy. They see it as a feature, not a bug.