Trump has announced Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the new Press Secretary and Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. [Link] The US just commissioned its largest warship ever. The US now has 11 aircraft carriers in its fleet. [Link] Someone has posted signs...
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News Roundup 7/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog
President Trump’spersonal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, will no longer lead the legal team responding to the ongoing Russian investigations. Trump’s legal team spokesman, Mark Corallo, also resigned [Link] Sean Spicer has resigned. [Link] A GAO sting was able to buy $1.2...
News Roundup 7/20/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 20, 2017 | Blog
A police officer accidentally recording himself planting drugs. [Link] A police dog died after being locked in a police car on a 95-degree day. The dog died of heat exustion, and the officer who was responsible for the dog was reassigned. [Link] Senator John McCain...
7/19/17 Daniel Davis on the victims of the long war in Mosul
by Damon Hatheway | Jul 19, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Afghan war whistleblower Daniel Davis returns to the show to talk about his latest article, "I Interviewed the War-Weary Residents of Mosul. The Fight for the City Is Far From Over." Davis talks about his trip to northern Iraq, heroic stories of everyday people...
News Roundup 7/19/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog
Trump spoke with Putin at a world leaders dinner in Germany. [Link] Trump will nominate Jon Huntsman to be ambassador to Russia. [Link] Trump has appointed former Navy SEAL Joseph Kernan to be Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. [Link] Mitch McConnell says...
News Roundup 7/18/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 18, 2017 | Blog
Trump appointed Thomas Blank to be Cheif of Staff of ICE. Blank is a former lobbyist. [Link] John McCain will be out of the Senate for several weeks for medical reasons. Senate Republicans believe they need McCain's vote to pass the healthcare bill. [Link] The FBI has...
News Roundup 7/14/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 14, 2017 | Blog
Over 400 people were charged with crimes in a health care scheme that used fraud and unnecessary opioid prescriptions to steal $1.3 billion from Medicare and Medicaid. [Link] Kid Rock confirms that he will run for Senate in Michigan. [Link] A public sector union has...
News Roundup 7/13/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
The Atlanta Police Department is investigating a police officer who was filmed beating a woman. [Link] The US signed an anti-terror agreement with Qatar. In the agreement, both countries will work to reduce funding to terrorists. [Link] 5,000 South Sudanese...
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Israel’s Amazing Feat
Israel has accomplished quite a feat: its crimes against the people of Gaza are of such a large scale that they make Hamas's Oct. 7 crimes look small.
Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures
Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...
A Soho Forum discussion of COVID with Tom Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.
US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine
Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...
The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age
The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...
Here’s an Idea
If you can't tell the difference between 2024 America and 1930s Germany, let's not have a conversation, okay?