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Category Archives: War Commentary
Space Nuclear Reactors
I’m not sure this is as big a proliferation concern as some say, but I have no idea where they get this “20% of all launches have failures” thing. That’s not true in general, and its far from true for U.S. systems.
The “Whistleblower”
As I’m listening to the current idiocy on the Hill, some thoughts from a former CIA analyst and staffer.
This reminds me of Democrat sandbagging with the Blasey Ford situation.
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The “Whistleblower Report” follows the same template as the Steele “Dossier.”
Yes, there seems to be a lot of circular reporting to make it appear that there is more corroboration than there actually is.
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Adam Schiff makes up his own version of the phone call. Schiff is a clown, who shouldn’t be in Congress, let alone a committee chairman.
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I’m sure you’ll be as surprised as I am to learn that the “whistleblower” had a bias toward a rival candidate to Trump.
The Ukraine Hysteria
Like “Russian collusion,” (and like almost everything the Left accuses others of), it’s pure projection on the part of the Democrats.
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Why the Democrats are going insane.
Blue Angels In LA
This should be cool. We’ll probably be able to see them from the house when they come to LAX, then fly down to the harbor.
The Israeli Election
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Related: Why left-wing anti-Semitism is worse than white supremacy.
Weird Coincidence
The fact that he had an ISIS video on his phone had nothing to do with the fact that he sabotaged a passenger aircraft. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Sorry, Internet was down for a while, but it’s back up, and I’ve fixed the link.
Iran
One of the things that gave us Trump was the fecklessness of multiple administrations on the Mullahs, who have been waging war on us for four decades. The Bush administration did nothing as they were killing our troops in Iraq, In the case of Obama (and John Kerry), it went beyond fecklessness, arguably, to treason (though there is no formal declaration of war).
Roger Simon says that the attack on the Saudi oil fields was this era’s Pearl Harbor, and it’s time to drop the hammer on them.
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The Divine Right Of The “Democratic” Party
Thoughts on the planned totalitarianism and oppression from Kevin Williamson. [Scare quotes in the post title mine.]
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More related links from Instapundit.
Eighteen Years On
It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, and we’ve been through a lot. We’ve created new ineffective and unaccountable bureaucracy, instituted ever-more intrusive government spying on citizens, subjected ourselves to humiliating security theater in order to get onto an aircraft (and into a museum, or government building). We have discovered or re-affirmed the arrogant, incompetent fecklessness of those who falsely consider themselves our moral and intellectual betters, on both sides of the aisle, to the degree that we now understand that there was really only one side of the aisle, a discovery that has given us in the White House a boorish, exaggerating, constitutionally and economically ignorant impulsive lout, indifferent to the truth who, yet, is still vastly preferable to anything else realistically on offer. The decline of our educational system, from kindergarten through grad school, continues apace, with a majority of young people, innocent of or being mistaught history, under the burden of a disastrous and cruel college loan program, now ignorantly desirous of the ideology that murdered tens of millions of people in the last century, and believing that the world will come to an end of we don’t ban the energy sources that have brought so many billions out of poverty over the past two centuries, and will continue to do so unless they get their wish.
I’ll probably update this post throughout the day with further thoughts and links, but to start, here’s something from a Millennial (who understandably hates the term): The side takers:
…if you want a pithy term for us, something that quickly defines us, the thing that our lives bent on, don’t call us Millennials. The turning of the millennium only mattered from the cozy confines of the 1990s, looking forward unaware of what was coming. Nobody who actually lived through that time can still honestly believe that’s the most important thing that occurred. But don’t call us 9/11ers either, obviously, or nobody in our generation will ever get to fly on a plane again.
No, call us the Side-Takers. We’re Generation Faction, Gen Polar, the Pick-A-Team Kids. We showed up to a cold civil war that far predated us just in time to pick our friends. 9/11 separated the future Tea Partier and MAGAmerican from future Anti-fa terrorists, because it was the moment we truly became aware that there were two very distinct kinds of Americans and the two did not reconcile easily. It shaped our whole lives, and I suspect that long after we’re all dead, we’ll be remembered— not for organic gluten-free soy infused everything, stupid haircuts, excessive beards, phone addiction or the social media epidemic—but for that.
[Via Sarah Hoyt]
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A Twitter thread from Joan of Aargghh:
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Thoughts on Flight 93, and the failure of the political establishment to make us afraid.
Also,
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More thoughts on the perfidy of the NYT from Jim Treacher, and Stephen Kruiser.
Plus, Mark Steyn on the language of losing.