Category: National Security

Stone Wall and Sudley Ford: A photographic tour of Manassas Battlefield National Park

by trshmnstr | Sep 3, 2018 | Big Government, Death Penalty, Federal Power, Foreign Policy, Guns, History, Military, National Security, Racism | 94

trshmnstr invites us along for a tour

Scenes from a Wasteland: Ground Zero for the Carnage of the Government Shutdown

by trshmnstr | Jan 22, 2018 | Art, Congress, Death Penalty, Economy, Federal Power, History, Libertarianism, National Security, Politics, Satire, Taxes | 215

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!

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu and the Birth of Neoyokelservatism

by Heroic Mulatto | Dec 23, 2017 | Economy, Executive Branch, Foreign Policy, National Security, Opinion, Politics | 251

“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

The (Small-l) Libertarian Case For a Non-Libertarian President

by sloopyinca | Aug 7, 2017 | Advice, Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Deep State, Economy, Executive Branch, Federal Power, First Amendment, Guns, Liberty, Markets, National Security, Opinion, Politics, Rant, Regulation, Rule of Law, Supreme Court, Taxes | 302

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

by Vhyrus | Jun 30, 2017 | Entertainment, Guns, National Security, Opinion, Science, Technology | 106

This week, Vhyrus boldly goes where no one has gone before to take a closer look at GUNS… IN…. SPAAAAAACCCCEEEEE!

Qatar $#&*storm

by Swiss Servator | Jun 6, 2017 | National Security, Politics | 182

Qatar….it is probably going to get really bad.

The Nation Misses The Point on Counterterrorism

by sloopyinca | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Federal Power, First Amendment, Immigration, National Security, Opinion, Politics, Rant, Religion, Rule of Law, Society | 134

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.

Being An Account of My Most Arduous Attempts to Establish a Relationship with International Jewry

by Gojira | Apr 4, 2017 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Deep State, Economy, Federal Power, Finance, Jews, National Security, Rant, Regulation | 145

In which Gorjira persists. All for you people. I said it–you people.

Raoul Berger, Originalism and the Bill of Rights, Part Three – Nixon, with Berger and Fries

by O, statua gentilissima | Apr 3, 2017 | Big Government, Congress, Constitution, Executive Branch, Federal Power, History, National Security, Politics, Supreme Court | 65

Tax resistance as treason? – Who gets to snoop on whom? – Impeachment

Reviews You’ll Never Use: Kong: Skull Island

by Gojira | Mar 30, 2017 | Fun, National Security, Nuclear, Opinion, Reviews | 143

A look at a newer film, because I kaiju not, I love giant monster movies!

An Example of Counter-Counterinsurgency

by Swiss Servator | Mar 29, 2017 | Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, National Security | 86

What the bad guys did was cheap, easy and it worked. Not a repeatable trick, but a good one, nonetheless.

A Good Example for Counterinsurgency (or policing)

by Swiss Servator | Mar 26, 2017 | Afghanistan, Cops, Foreign Policy, National Security | 207

How some Virginians, Afghans and a Soviet tractor showed me the way. And kept me from blowing a leg off.

The New Iraqi Army, Take Two?

by Swiss Servator | Mar 16, 2017 | National Security | 174

A history of failure, regardless of who arms and trains them – whither the Iraqi Army now?

Quick Hit: The Ethics of Taking a Leak… Er, I Mean Leaking Classified Info

by trshmnstr | Mar 10, 2017 | Big Government, National Security, Opinion | 135

Leakers: scoundrels or heros? Trshmnstr weighs in.

We’re Living in a Post-Digital-Evidence Age

by Guest Contributor | Mar 9, 2017 | Big Government, Deep State, National Security, Opinion | 60

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.

VAULT 7: HOLY SHIT

by sloopyinca | Mar 7, 2017 | Big Government, Constitution, Deep State, Federal Power, National Security | 278

WikiLeaks has just released the first part of the largest document dump on an “intelligence agency” in its history.

Confessions of a Reluctant Drug Warrior

by westernsloper | Mar 1, 2017 | Big Government, Constitution, National Security | 163

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 how many fish would...

Do We Owe Anything To The Afghan Dead, Opportunist or Brave?

by Swiss Servator | Feb 24, 2017 | Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, History, National Security | 95

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...

Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown Responds

by sloopyinca | Feb 16, 2017 | History, Immigration, National Security, Racism, Religion, Social Justice | 177

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...

Obama was right to commute Chelsea Manning’s sentence

by Guest Contributor | Feb 16, 2017 | Big Government, Constitution, Crime, Executive Branch, National Security | 92

But don’t give the former president too much credit.

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