Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit, voluntary, and independent citizen groups operating at local, national, or international levels. The very nature of NGOs needs a complete overhaul. The very term NGO has an undeserved cache of innocence and goodness. There is NO such thing as an NGO that does not press for larger and more intrusive government. None. Defund them all.
I was a technical climber as a young man and just watched the amazing Alex Honnold free solo the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. Individual achievement is the bedrock of pushing the envelope in human creativity and innovation. I think free solo is eventually going to kill all its practitioners but hats off to his superb athletic skill. The death toll has taken free solo greats like Paul Preuss (1913), Derek Hersey (1993), and John Bachar (2009). Alex is in my autistic tribe, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVZm5UuXIs
The DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class, originally slated for 30+ hulls but only commissioning three has been haunted by failure and late delivery on everything. Now the first hull is being delivered after being retrofitting for Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic weapons. The CPS doesn't carry nukes. Hence the term 'conventional' prompt strike. We shall see how that fares, if history is an indicator, it will take years to make it right. This is the ship that took five years after commissioning to launch its first missile out of the Vertical Launch System (VLS) tubes installed on the vessel. CPS...
The 8(a) program, administered by the Small Business Administration, was established to assist small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals or tribes. Imagine the panic that ensued in these companies when they were on the verge of being held accountable. In this season of Americans waking up to the massive fraud, embezzlement and money laundering that one can characterize as the primary business of government planet-wide is really coming home to roost in the US. In December 2025, the SBA issued letters to all 4,300 current 8(a) participants requiring...
New WarNotes episode: Ep 020 "The Jerboa That Squeaked: Broke and Woke NATO on the Warpath" The Greenland debacle is bringing the NATO relationship into better focus on just how bad the EU/SSR has become. America should take a non-interventionist pause and get its internal house in order before standing astride the world again and lighting fires that never go away and continuously make things worse. Stop the madness. Recent episodes on NATO. First parts here: Ep 009 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part One" Ep 016 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part Two" I now have a...
The Greenland debacle is bringing the NATO relationship into better focus on just how bad the EU/SSR has become. America should take a non-interventionist pause and get its internal house in order before standing astride the world again and lighting fires that never go away and continuously make things worse. Stop the madness. Recent episodes on NATO. First part here: Ep 009 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part One" Second part here: Ep 016 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part Two" References: Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of...
The Greenland drama is amusing but reality about the players is rather sobering. A casual look at Russia's habitual military presence in the Arctic for generations dispels any illusion. Europe is presently making lots of noise in a scheduled exercise in Greenland to theatrically pose as the vanguards of protecting Greenland from an American invasion.
Dear NATO and EU/SSR, Keep this in the back of your mind in your salons and conference rooms in Brussels: “Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.” Frederick the Great
