Scenes from a Wasteland: Ground Zero for the Carnage of the Government Shutdown
A sentence worse than death: to grow up and live a shell of a life surrounded by death and rot! And all because the damn Republicans shut down the government!
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Category: National Security
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu and the Birth of Neoyokelservatism
“Many there are, I doubt not, who will regard the Eastern girl with horror. I ask their forgiveness in that I regarded her quite differently. No man having seen her could have condemned her unheard. Many, having looked into her lovely eyes, had they found there what I found, must have forgiven her almost any crime.” –Dr. Petrie
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The (Small-l) Libertarian Case For a Non-Libertarian President
What is libertarianism’s best strategy to gain a legitimate amount of power nationally (and then happily cede it to the people)?
Sloopy believes there is a third, and overlooked, option.
Firearms Friday: Long Arms in Low Orbit
This week, Vhyrus boldly goes where no one has gone before to take a closer look at GUNS… IN…. SPAAAAAACCCCEEEEE!
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Qatar $#&*storm
Qatar….it is probably going to get really bad.
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The Nation Misses The Point on Counterterrorism
I have no doubt that Ariana Grande means well, but she’s dead wrong. Inclusiveness is no strategy to fight terrorism. It is a strategy to offer people an opportunity to assimilate to an enlightened western culture.
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Being An Account of My Most Arduous Attempts to Establish a Relationship with International Jewry
In which Gorjira persists. All for you people. I said it–you people.
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Raoul Berger, Originalism and the Bill of Rights, Part Three – Nixon, with Berger and Fries
Tax resistance as treason? – Who gets to snoop on whom? – Impeachment
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Reviews You’ll Never Use: Kong: Skull Island
A look at a newer film, because I kaiju not, I love giant monster movies!
Read MoreAn Example of Counter-Counterinsurgency
What the bad guys did was cheap, easy and it worked. Not a repeatable trick, but a good one, nonetheless.
Read MoreA Good Example for Counterinsurgency (or policing)
How some Virginians, Afghans and a Soviet tractor showed me the way. And kept me from blowing a leg off.
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The New Iraqi Army, Take Two?
A history of failure, regardless of who arms and trains them – whither the Iraqi Army now?
Read MoreQuick Hit: The Ethics of Taking a Leak… Er, I Mean Leaking Classified Info
Leakers: scoundrels or heros? Trshmnstr weighs in.
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We’re Living in a Post-Digital-Evidence Age
By: Zero Sum Game
Revelations from Wikileaks have far deeper implications than have been covered by the media as yet. The CIA has lost control of not only a trove of documents about the organization’s cyber warfare capabilities. It’s lost control of the weapons themselves.
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VAULT 7: HOLY SHIT
WikiLeaks has just released the first part of the largest document dump on an “intelligence agency” in its history.
Read MoreConfessions of a Reluctant Drug Warrior
By Westernsloper The seven-meter rigid hull inflatable boat carried us across a light chop on the purple sea. There is something about the Gulf Stream that makes the sea a deep purple. I often stared into the depths wondering...
Read MoreDo We Owe Anything To The Afghan Dead, Opportunist or Brave?
In 2004-2005 I was part of the long and latest version of the wars in Afghanistan. I was the Civil Affairs Officer for one of the two Task Forces running around Parwan, Kapisa and part of Kabul province. My job – Go make...
Read MoreGeorgetown Professor Jonathan Brown Responds
Jonathan Brown has struck back at his critics and issued a lengthy release addressing many of the complaints people have levied against his purported positions on slavery and rape. He begins by admitting to his tone-deafness on...
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Obama was right to commute Chelsea Manning’s sentence
But don’t give the former president too much credit.
Read MorePrepping & Survivalism
So I read a book recommended to me by a nice dealer at the Lewisville Gun Show a few weekends back: Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, by James Wesley Rawles. I’ll give a brief review, then I thought it...
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