https://youtu.be/Ff7aMFlxUlE Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary...“Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for...
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PULSE Nightclub: Debunking the Conspiracy Theory Pushed by Obama, Trump, & Hillary
by Keith Knight | Jun 15, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/psaqOZ4nvEw [Y]ou have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They are killing a lot of innocent people. What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there...You have to tell the U.S. government to stop bombing. They are...
Biden Announces U.S. Will Not Supply Ukraine with Longe-Range Rockets
by Dave DeCamp | May 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Biden on Monday told reporters that the U.S. will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can strike targets inside Russian territory. “We’re not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that strike into Russia,” Biden told reporters. Biden’s comments came after...
Former U.S. Navy Sailor Makes the Case for Libertarianism
by Keith Knight | May 17, 2022 | Blog
https://youtu.be/uI0iYWMK8Z8 [J]ustice is the means by which an individual who was victim to a criminal act is made whole again. If a statist society cannot perfect man’s own construct, how could a stateless society fare any better? Derek R. Wills, The Liberty...
NYT Claims U.S. Intelligence Has Helped Assassinate Russian Generals
by Dave DeCamp | May 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
According to a report from The New York Times citing unnamed senior U.S. officials, intelligence provided by the U.S. on Russian military units has helped Ukraine target and kill Russian generals. Ukraine has claimed to have killed 12 Russian generals, but the number...
Florida Judge Uses Compelled Speech to Perpetuate Pulse Nightclub Myth
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a jaw-dropping example of government imposing woke mythology on an individual citizen, a Florida judge has ordered a man who defaced an LGBT mural to write a 25-page essay centered on a thoroughly false premise—that the 2016 massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in...
Taiwan Holds War Games Miles Off China’s Coast
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 17, 2022 | News Roundup
Taiwan has carried out live-fire military drills just miles away from mainland China, as the island remains on high alert following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The US and Japan matched Taipei with their own combat exercises near Mt. Fiji this week, also focused on Beijing.
US Demands Concessions to Drop Iran Terror Designation
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 17, 2022 | News Roundup
Wednesday saw two positive signals for a return to the JCPOA nuclear pact with Iran, with three UK citizens freed from Iranian custody amid reports that the White House is considering dropping sanctions on the country’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
History and Conflict
"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by...