Boy does this have a ring of truth to it: “The one interesting aspect of the book is how little [MacNamara] understood about what was going on or understands today. He doesn’t even understand what he was involved in. I assume he’s telling the truth. The book has a...
USAF General: Killing the Enemy Makes Life Better: “Lethality matters most. When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger. ... This is who we are. We are lethal. Do not apologize for it! The pile of...
https://youtu.be/_-6CyEYetxM How is something to be owned by “the community as a whole?” Ownership means that you get to decide what is done with something. If you and I disagree on who gets to eat your apple, then whatever you decide will take precedence, because it...
https://youtu.be/8jK-rT-0SCk Defenders of free enterprise do not believe in a perfect administration under a market economy. Rather, we do not believe in the possibility of such. To the extent imperfect decision-making is accepted, we then seek to solve for who has...
https://youtu.be/GKZvdtiitLg “Biological sex [is] binary. It’s been binary for like a hundred million years, longer than that. Temperament is not binary, temperament or personality… people who talk about the diversity in gender are actually talking about diversity in...
https://youtu.be/cwRkItxSbxs “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,...[A]nd if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who...
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...
By calling yesterday's UN Security Council's Gaza ceasefire resolution "nonbinding," US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield was delivering Joe Biden's message to Israel: Feel free to ignore this. Israel has obliged. The U.S. had abstained.
The Likud is running Israel into the grave with a lot of their Palestinian victims. Well, Ukraine has lost millions of people to emigration during the current war. Maybe the Israelis can go and create and ethno-exclusivist state there. I hear they're really into that...
WSJ: The U.S. decision not to veto the resolution was “a very bad omen,” said Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and adviser to several prime ministers. “If things continue this way,” he said, the so-called special relationship between Israel...
The big boss man has said that we can blog, chat and rant about whatever we wish. So, expect to see as much from me here. I most likely will keep most things about the liberty and anti-war sector but I was thinking about sharing short stories, training advice,...
When Israel's defenders bring up Hamas's execrable anti-Semitic and genocidal charter, they should be reminded that for decades before the 1948 self-declared founding of Israel, Zionist leaders and settlers had talked about reclaiming and sanctifying the "Promised...