Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said he plans to lead a bipartisan congressional delegation to Taiwan this spring despite the risk of provoking China.
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 9, 2023 | News
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said he plans to lead a bipartisan congressional delegation to Taiwan this spring despite the risk of provoking China.
by Jay Schweikert | Feb 6, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The brutal death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers is one of the most egregious examples of police misconduct in living memory. On January 7th, officers stopped Nichols, a 29‐year‐old Black man, for alleged “reckless driving” (though Memphis...
by Connor Freeman | Jan 24, 2023 | News
Over the weekend, other NATO members’ pressure on Berlin continued to mount while bipartisan American lawmakers have issued demands that Washington lead by example and send its own heavy tanks to Ukraine.
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 23, 2023 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #375, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover estimates by German intelligence that Ukrainian forces are seeing hundreds of men dying every day, warnings in Moscow regarding the risk of nuclear war if Russia loses, the mounting pressure on Germany to send battle...
by Keith Knight | Jan 2, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/pONdewnuFYs Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are...
by David Stockman | Dec 29, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The crash landing of the housing market continued in November. Existing home sales of just 4.09 million units at an annualized rate represented at staggering 37% drop from the 6.49 million rate posted in January. There has never been a drop this severe within a single...
by The Libertarian Institute | Dec 13, 2022 | Blog, Libertarian Institute Roundtable
https://youtu.be/dfw0wVP1m_E Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are...
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 19, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested on Tuesday that major Ukraine aid may be more difficult to pass if the House is controlled by Republicans after the upcoming mid-term elections. “I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not...
Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over the Iran war, becoming the first senior official to break ranks. In his resignation, Kent stated bluntly that Iran posed no “imminent threat” to the United States — directly...
One of four SLBMs are operational. One of two carriers is operational. Two of seven destroyers are operational. On and on. The Argentinians need to make a deal with Iran for oil, to keep the British busy in the Maldives; then they'll finally have the islands. Luxury...
2 F-35 stealth fighters hit 4 F-15 Strike Eagles lost 7 KC-135 Stratotankers damaged (one lost) All of those aircraft are a big maybe; fratricide, friendly fire, we don’t know yet. To be fair, let’s suppose not a single aircraft suffered Iranian fire but 11 Reapers...
The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of geopolitical pressure point that can turn a regional fight into a worldwide economic shock, and the official story coming out of Washington doesn’t always match what markets and missiles are signaling. We sit down with Larry Johnson...
"Tomorrow we attack the Germans" "Let me guess Sir, we climb out of our trenches and do a frontal assault" "Damn it, Blackadder, that's supposed to be a secret" "We've tried it 17 times before and always failed" "Ah, but they will never expect it an 18th time!" ***...
Air defense looks clean on a diagram. In real war, it is messy, conditional, and expensive in ways most people never see until the alarms are late and the interceptors are flying in bunches. We sit down with Daryl Cooper to translate the jargon and show what “layered...
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