Responding to the deaths of two American missionaries in Haiti, the White House is pushing Kenya to rush armed men to Port-au-Prince. The US is providing funding and training for about 1,000 Kenyan troops that will be sent to Haiti and transfer authority to a...
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Biden to Make Kenya Major Non-NATO Ally as Country Delays Armed Deployment to Haiti
by Kyle Anzalone | May 23, 2024 | News
President Joe Biden announced the US would make Kenya a Major non-NATO Ally (MNNA) during President William Ruto’s visit to Washington. Countries that become MNNAs receive more access to American training, weapons, and technology. In exchange for Ruto agreeing to send...
Did the U.S. Give the Go-Ahead to Strike Russia with Long Range Missiles?
by Ted Snider | May 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are a number of questions that could be asked about U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken singing “Rockin’ in the Free World” in a bar in Kiev. The first is regarding the appropriateness of singing a song while hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers are being wounded...
White House Gives Israel Proposal to End War, Free Hostages and Improve Ties with Saudi Arabia
by Kyle Anzalone | May 20, 2024 | News
A top White House official presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a proposal that would see the war in Gaza end, the hostages released, and an improvement in ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel. The Biden administration has been fixated on its plan to have...
Psychiatry is Vexing Americans and Subverting Freedom
by Jim Bovard | May 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Psychiatry is ruining more lives than ever before. The New York Times recently showcased psychiatric “prevalence inflation”—a vast increase in reported mental illness among teenagers because they are encouraged to view normal symptoms as grave maladies requiring...
Biden Said Putin Killed Navalny; He Didn’t
by Ted Snider | May 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are plenty of very real things to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin for, not least of which is invading Ukraine. But lying (in this instance) may not be one of them. Putin lied when he said Russia was not going to invade Ukraine. But, wrong though the...
No Crickets for Cricket!
by Laurie Calhoun | May 4, 2024 | Blog, Politics
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...
US Gaza Pier Could Be Operational By Weekend
by Kyle Anzalone | May 1, 2024 | News
Unnamed officials said the floating pier and causeway that Washington hopes to use to bring aid into Gaza could be completed by Friday with aid deliveries beginning Saturday. The development comes as the cost of the pier has nearly doubled, and Defense Secretary Lloyd...
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The Health-Care Nirvana Fallacy
Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
DEI Kills: Boeing Bumbling on Parade Part CXXVII
Editor's Note: Just returned from business travel so my blogging frequency should bump up again. Boeing continues o provide legions of future business historians the fodder for hundreds of books and cautionary tales on how engineering can fall of a cliff once...
What’s Behind HTS Rebranding and the Rise of Geopolitical Tensions? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Al-Qaeda's Takeover in Syria: Truth Behind the Headlines! Al-Qaeda's recent control over Syria marks a significant shift in the region, and we need to unpack its implications. While mainstream media may portray this as a victory for freedom and justice, the reality is...
Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
No Need for DOGE
We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...
Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won
Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...