Headlines

How San Francisco’s wealthiest families launched Kamala Harris

Trump says the US is not going to do business with Huawei, not ready to make a trade deal with China

Candidate Fatigue in Iowa ... More Biden confusion

Biden confuses ex-British PM Teresa May with Margaret Thatcher

Trump suggests September trade talks with China may not take place

Trump says he is having congressional leaders about ‘meaningful’ gun background checks

Paper: Illegal use of Chinese children to make Amazon’s Alexa ...

Gulf cartel shoots at U.S. border patrol agents on Rio Grande

Trump is high on gun reform chances despite NRA resistance

High dividend stocks are beginning to outperform as low rates become the new norm again

Above-normal hurricane season now MORE likely, NOAA says

Austria: Five migrants convicted after filming gang rape of 13-year-old

Quotable Quote

“Consensus is the negation of leadership.” — Margaret Thatcher

Headlines

Trump squeezes Dems with border demands

China says its still preparing for US trade talks — but won’t give details after new Trump threats

Iran behind [Gaza] escalation?

Swalwell: Impeaching Trump ‘may be the only road to save the country’

Pompeo aims to counter China’s ambitions in the Arctic

Warren Buffet: If we have a trade war with China, it could be very bad for the whole world

Confusion: Biden says ‘Margaret Thatcher’ called him with concern about Trump

Democrat lawmakers take on threat of beach umbrellas

Navy strike group deployed to send message to Iran

41 dead after Russian passenger plane crash lands at Moscow airport

Study conclude Universal Basic Income doesn’t work ...

Red Sox manager Alex Cora to skip White House visit

Alpha Male

There s almost always is an alpha dog in every pack ... except during periods of mortality  changeover.  Whether this is a fact of nature or a gratuitous event, ti's so. If, due to circumstances, some societal construct does not have an alpha animal, the life of this construct is threatened. Ergo, alpha animals are essential in moving societies forward.

How do animals become alphas? Generally through continued combat. Their "toxic masculinity" continually challenges the other males in the troop to battles to assert their dominance. Some of these fights are cakewalks ... some can turn deadly. But, in the end, the alpha male must keep winning to control the other animals and maintain breeding rights with many, if not all of the pack's fecund females.

And since humans are animals ... so it is with humans -- CEOs, prosecutors, governors, popes, mayors, cops, dons, team coaches, presidents -- there is almost always an alpha position leading such  human societal constructs. And some of these aloha males are female -- Thatcher, Merkel, Meir. These alphas roles are seldom the result of physical encounters anymore. They are often elected positions and have traditionally been male although this requirement is rapidly changing.

Strangely enough, the president isn't always the  alpha dog in any administration. One could argue the Henry Kissinger was Nixon!s alpha male and Valarie Jarrett was Obama's. There is little doubt that Trump is our alpha dog now ... although it seems that the entire world is vying to oust him. Actually, he seems to enjoy these contests ... which is driving most never-Trumpers bonkers.