President Donald Trump has asked former Vice Admiral Robert (Bob) Harward to replace Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser. In Foreign Policy, military author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks says that he expects Harward to be “Scowcroftian” in his approach. This of course is a reference to Brent Scowcroft who I have […]
Trump’s Great White Wall: Part II
National Review contributor J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy is a love story. It begins in the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky known as the “holler” where grandparents are not referred to as grandma and grandpa. They are “Mamaw” (pronounced ma’am-aw) and “Papaw.” “These names belong only to hillbilly grandparents,” writes Vance. If you were to […]
How Team Trump Turned an Empty Narrative into a Major Scandal
The intrigue continues with the Flynn affair “with head-spinning twists and turns, manipulative spies, narrative-weaving pols, and strategists who mostly outsmart themselves,” writes Andrew C. McCarthy in NRO. And as Mr. McCarthy suggests, there is an easy way to get to the bottom of whether General Michael Flynn (now former National Security Adviser) is a liar […]
What Would an Independent California Look Like?
Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, outlines some of the ways independence would force Californians to face reality. Of course they’ll target the middle class. That’s what they want in Washington. That’s why they want a value-added tax. Simply stated, you can’t have a cradle-to-grave welfare state unless the middle class is […]
America’s Cult -Like Education System and the Ideological Cold War
Over the last five decades, the U.S. has turned out countless kids “who are functionally uneducated, even if they’re at the top in their class at elite schools,” writes Stella Morabito, senior fellow at The Federalist. So many are unable to think independently, lack context, and try mightily to adapt to various PC lines. All […]
Trump’s Great White Wall: Part I
“An American classic, an extraordinary testimony to the brokenness of the white working class but also its strengths. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read…the most important book of 2016. You cannot understand what’s happening now without first reading J.D. Vance.” -Rod Dreher, The American Conservative You get the point. If that doesn’t […]
U.S. Army Working on Technology to Fly Blind
In an article published at C4ISRNET, Adam Stone talks about how the U.S. Army is combining sophisticated sensors in an attempt to fly blind. For the last decade or so the Army has been working on conquering “brownouts”, also known as Degraded Visual Environment, or DVE. From 2002 to 2015, brownouts and other forms of […]
Flynn Resigns: America was Sick and Tired of the Shameless Iran Hawk
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has resigned from the Trump administration after details were uncovered proving he lied to Vice President Pence about his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Flynn has a history of hawkish stances toward Iran, and was a proponent of the miserably failed counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq. His […]
ThinkProgress Editor Shaken by Potential Danger from His Plumber
It is no great secret that those who think the world is out to get them can find plenty of specifics to back their theory. And of course, those who think the world is full of opportunity can cite wonderful support why this is so. A lot is just plain old psychology, Jim Geraghty reminds […]
A Clever Way to Do Away with Anti-Gun Laws
Received this from a friend. A new tactic by pro-Second Amendment legislators in Oklahoma is to ban public monies from being used to fund anti-gun lobbying efforts. Clever way to do away with anti gun laws. Tomorrow, February 14, the Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider Senate Bill 275. Sponsored by state Senator […]
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