24 years after their last September visit, al-Qaeda has flown into New York again.
Now the US and General Petraeus welcome a long-time Al Qaeda leader, on whose head DOJ had a bounty of ten million dollars less than a year ago because he serves the US on the Devil’s Chessboard.
“Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria…”
Jake Sullivan to Hillary Clinton in 2012 (State Dept. memo obtained and published by Wikileaks).
Same as it ever was…
Last Monday, Chairman Dan McKnight of Bring Our Troops Home formally submitted a request in both physical and digital form for public records to the Tennessee General Assembly, the Office of the Governor, and the Tennesse Military Department regarding a recent off-the-calendar meeting concerning the “Defend the Guard Act.”
The request seeks copies of communications, notes, agendas, and related documents surrounding a private August 28, 2025 meeting between members of the Tennessee legislature and representatives of the Tennessee Military Department.
The Defend the Guard Act, introduced during the 2025 legislative session as H.B. 129 and S.B. 156, would prohibit the deployment of the Tennessee National Guard into active combat unless Congress has voted to declare war.
The House version of the bill received a March 25 hearing before the Public Service Subcommittee, which voted 4-2 to send the bill into “summer study” session. You can watch the full hearing here.
Rep. Rick Eldridge (R-District 10), who had co-sponsored the bill but reversed his position during the hearing, proposed a summer study which never occurred; in its place was a private, August 28 meeting where members of the legislature in opposition—including Rep. Eldridge—appear to have conspired behind closed doors with military officials to devise talking points against the bill to use in the upcoming session.
“Their constituents deserve to know the truth,” said Dan McKnight. “When the people’s representatives vote for more study, the expectation is a public process, not a backroom meeting designed to kill a bill without accountability. Our request is about pulling back the curtain and letting in some disinfecting sunlight.”
Sgt. Dan McKnight is a thirteen-year veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces, with service in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, U.S. Army, and Idaho Army National Guard, including an eighteen-month combat deployment to Afghanistan (2005-2007).
Bring Our Troops Home intends to make all documentation it receives available to the public.
For more information about the Defend the Guard movement in Tennessee, contact Samantha Baker at samzuk209gmail.com. To interview Dan McKnight about his transparency efforts, contact Hunter DeRensis at hderensis@outlook.com.
Red Hawk joins me to discuss how Charlie Kirk’s legacy shapes our future.
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The F35 continues to disappoint.
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else.
Ward Carroll does a devastating critique of this two trillion dollar disaster.
It only took the US trillions to realize the era of manned combat aircraft is over.
Two trillion dollars.
[R]elative shares in national income have remained substantially constant over the last hundred years. This, however, is true only if we measure them in money. Measured in real terms, relative shares have substantially changed in favor of the lower income groups. This follows from the fact that the capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably means also production for the masses….
Electric lighting is no great boon to anyone who has money enough to buy a sufficient number of candles and to pay servants to attend to them. It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth [I] owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.
–Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 1942
Why would anyone think that condemning a murder must imply any particular judgment about the victim?
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I am saddened by Charlie Kirk’s passing and the method by which he left this life.
Whether you agree with him or not, there is never a good reason for this kind of speech cancellation to take place.
Kirk took the fight to Ground Zero for American government supremacism at the university campus. He will be missed for his special brand of rhetorical pugilism that fought the Woke Monster in its own primordial fever swamp.
And this happens days after the tragic, cold-blooded murder 23-year-old Iryna Zarutskayoung in NC, the young Ukrainian girl. The usual suspects have been blood-mad for war since 2022. Why is it bad when Russians kill Ukrainians on the battlefield but OK for an addled monster to murder an innocent young woman on a public train in the US? I think folks are starting to pay attention.
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My thoughts on the news that they caught Charlie Kirk’s murderer.
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Incentives matter. You want to see over-promise/under-deliver fixed? Limit total compensation for the top 10 executives in any year they miss their own promises. It’s really that simple. No deferment of compensation, no stock options, just hit them where it hurts and that is only the executive wallets.But then again, just stop buying weapons systems that don’t work.