US News A woman got $40,000 returned to her from the TSA after she joined a class-action lawsuit. The TSA regularly will take cash from people traveling with over $5,000. [Link] The US dropped drug charges against Mexico’s former defense minister. He had been held in...
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Mark Perry: The Revenge Of Colonel Douglas Macgregor
by Steven Woskow | Nov 15, 2020 | Blog
Mark Perry at Responsible Statecraft Macgregor, a West Point graduate, is an acquired taste: outspoken and controversial. He has flagged reporters with his statements about immigrants (we need martial law at the U.S.-Mexico border), Iranians (we need to look for areas...
News Roundup 7/7/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 7, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The NYPD culture of impunity has allowed a police officer to keep his job for 18 years and receive thousands in raises even though the officer has routinely raped people on the side of the road. The city has paid out nearly a million dollars because of the...
News Roundup 7/3/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 3, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Jeffery Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested in New Hampshire by the FBI on charges related to the dead sex trafficker. [Link] Large US corporations are threatening to pull ads from Facebook in an effort to get the social network to censor...
News Roundup 6/29/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 29, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Boston bans the use of facial recognition. [Link] Eight of the Minneapolis police officers to be fired since 2006, six have gotten their jobs reinstated after intervention from the police union. [Link] Senator Rand Paul is leading an effort to restrict police...
News Roundup 6/24/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 24, 2020 | News Roundup
US news Seattle authorities say they will dismantle the CHAZ after two shootings. [Link] Trump says he will sign an executive order protecting statues from hoodlums and anarchists. [Link] The government will release the first person held under the indefinite detention...
News Roundup 6/16/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 16, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Black Americans are more likely to die from police using tasers. [Link] The Supreme Court rules that existing civil rights laws extend to LGBTQ workers. [Link] A Republican super-pac is giving money to help Democratic Rep Elliot Engle in his primary. [Link]...
Do Activists Want Domestic Violence To Increase During the Pandemic?
by Wendy McElroy | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
A contradiction is grabbing the narrative on domestic violence (DV) during the coronavirus lockdown: a decline in police reports on DV means the rate is increasing and more government is needed. A cynic might wonder if DV experts want to stoke the panic that drives...
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Winter is Coming to an American City Near You
It is much worse than Shawn Ryan thinks per his reactions during the interview. Sarah Adams discusses a forecast of an attack on the US from 1:12:00 to 1:25:00. There will be far more than 1k fighters (think train the trainer) because the aQ et al planners will...
Ruminations on War in the 21st Century
Agreed, Armchair Warlord nails the paper tiger posing as the US military. My additions: There is no Auftragstaktik in the modern western militaries despite their "embrace" of Mission Command. Carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. A tremendous...
USS Liberty Incident Rises from the Ash Heap of Inconvenient History
Medal of Honor citation for Commander William L. McGonagle, USN, Commanding Officer, USS Liberty (AGTR-5) Thanks to Candace Owens for lifting this incident from the dead. One receives the Medal of Honor for engaging in a fight in enemy action. "For conspicuous...
Natural Economic Law Can’t Be Repealed
If the government restricts supply and subsidizes demand, out-of-control prices, resource shortages, and unpleasant ad hoc coping restrictions will follow. That is the natural (economic) law. The government cannot repeal it. But it can stop its attempt to plan.
Dumpsters Afloat: The Zumwalt Chronicles Continues
The weapons system removed from the Zumwalt They were going to build 30 and ended up building three of these dysfunctional monstrosities. Commissioned in 2016, it has only taken them eight years to retrofit the weapons system. The Navy's priorities have changed since...
Lawrence Premieres in London
On this day, 62 years ago, David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) premiered in London, UK. My favorite movie of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsFcSpaVO0
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