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Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown, United States Army Reserve and the longtime editor/publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine, passed away in August, according to announcements posted on Facebook Monday. Brown founded Soldier of Fortune magazine in 1975, seeking to provide a voice for veterans, particularly those who served in the Vietnam War. He died on Aug. 28, according to a photo of a headstone posted with the Monday announcement on Brown’s personal Facebook page. (RELATED: Is The Army’s New Rifle A Lemon?) “Lt. Col. Robert K Brown, Patriot, Warrior has crossed the River. In full command to the end, he...

You don’t have to be a pioneer on the Oregon Trail to catch the bug that causes dysentery. Nowadays, the infection is spreading more through sex — and evolving into something that’s “close to untreatable,” one expert said. Shigella bacteria infect nearly half a million people in the US every year — causing diarrhea with blood or mucus (the hallmark of a dysentery infection), stomach pain, cramps, fever and vomiting. Scientists are learning more about why the disturbing disease is spreading so quickly, and why it’s developing a resistance to treatment. ...

This remains one of the most shocking things of my entire life. In early November 2024, I submitted a light rewrite of some of the Communist Manifesto to a "right-wing" Christian Nationalist publication called American Reformer. It was obvious what it was; it just swapped out proletariat for "New Christian Right" and bourgeoisie for "classical liberals" and their "postwar consensus." It was so obviously the Communist Manifesto that once it got published, one of their own readers spotted it and commented with proof almost immediately. I didn't realize it had been published for 11 days, however, and that comment and...

The latest migrant caravan, “Fe y Esperanza #2” is making very little progress in its trek to reach the United States-Mexico border. At least four members of the caravan have been injured in fights that broken out within the group. Although no serious injuries have been reported, the incidents required the intervention of police and emergency personnel. According to a report by La Jornada, a daily Spanish-language newspaper published in Mexico City, the caravan is currently moving toward Pijijiapan, Chiapas, having only managed to walk fewer than 90 miles over the last eight days. The group left the Mexican border...

BLM’s recent roundup in Nevada’s Callaghan Complex illustrates this entrenched cycle. Low-flying helicopters gathered over 2,000 wild horses from 1.1 million acres in July, causing eleven deaths, including several foals. Surviving horses face indefinite holding, adoption, or sale channels that carry risk of slaughter. Without on-range fertility management, herd populations will quickly recover, triggering another gather in just a few short years. The Callaghan roundup alone cost taxpayers $765,000, paid to a private contractor BLM has relied on since 1975. The federal government maintains over $100 million in open contracts with this single company – a relationship that incentivizes roundups...

A new poll from Gallup shows the stark contrast between Republicans and Democrats, and how vastly different their priorities are. When asked what values America needs most today, Republicans listed their top choices as "patriotism." Democrats, on the other hand, ranked patriotism dead last and said the most important thing for America right now is "equality." By "equality," of course, Democrats mean they pick the winners and losers. They don't actually want equality, after all. Just power and control. And it's not quality — that's "equity."

U2 front man Bono is attacking Christians and Jews who have supported Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut wasteful and fraudulent government spending with the efforts of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The “With or Without You” singer insisted that you can’t be a real Christian or Jew if you support the spending cuts to government programs such as USAID and other programs that lavished billions of U.S. tax dollars on foreign nations. He made his latest comments on the New York Times sponsored The Interview podcast. “What Christian household, what Catholic household, what Jewish, religious...

J.K. Rowling described transgender activism in the 21st century as “elitist,” adding that her political views “haven’t changed,” despite having faced “an avalanche of death, rape, and torture threats.” “It’s been six years since I wrote my essay explaining why I chose to speak up on the issue of trans activism and the risk I believe it poses to women’s rights, and to everyone’s freedom of speech and belief,” Rowling wrote in a new essay, published on Wednesday. “My views haven’t changed,” the “Harry Potter” author continued. “But the landscape certainly has, and my own involvement in the issue has...

Our Post-Western FutureThis is an edited version of a speech that was delivered at the 2026 National Conservatism Conference in Jerusalem on October 6, during the “Immigration and Cultural Replacement” panel.Generals always fight the last war. The media theorist Marshall McLuhan made a similar point when he argued that we understand the effects of new technologies in terms of past ones. He called this rear-view mirror thinking. Right now, Western countries are suffering from a collective exercise in rear-view thinking about the effects of digital technology on mass migration. Rather than seeing the unique functions of digital technology, we...

A new survey finds that nearly half of undergraduate students support censorship, shout-downs, and physical violence to suppress what they consider “hate speech” or offensive ideas. Fox News reports that the 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey, released this month by the Buckley Institute, shows that 45 percent of undergraduate students surveyed believe physical violence can be justified to stop so-called hate speech. That number is up 6 points from 2025 and ties the all-time record set in 2023. The survey, which polled 803 full-time undergraduate students at four-year public and private colleges across the United States, revealed several record-high metrics...

An antibiotic morning-after pill has been shown to be effective for preventing STIs among gay men, but some doctors worry about antibiotic resistance. This story discusses STIs and their symptoms. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Research shows that a new morning-after pill for bacterial STIs is highly effective for gay men. A possible downside - it could lead to antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Note - this story mentions sexually transmitted infections and symptoms. KQED's April Dembosky reports from San Francisco. APRIL DEMBOSKY, BYLINE: Tyler Toler (ph) has had the trifecta of bacterial STIs - chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. TYLER TOLER: Itching, burning, leaking, not...

The shooter who attacked the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, is dead. John Griffin, 16, used a shotgun, blasted open the locks on the doors to gain entry, and murdered a teacher and three children. A second teacher chucked her phone and tackled him, buying time. An armed bystander, Kaylub Giamanco, intervened and killed Griffin. Oregon already has universal background checks, a ghost gun ban, and safe storage laws. In fact, every gun control law pushed by anti-gun groups is codified here so these people can pipe down. Will Griffin’s mother be charged? She bought the shotgun around...

How the free market gets blamed for cronyism. Words have specific meanings. Unfortunately, capitalism is frequently misused by supporters and critics alike. Too often, what people defend or condemn is not free-market capitalism at all. Although distinctions exist among capitalism, free enterprise, and free market, for the purposes of this essay, I use capitalism to mean free-market capitalism: an economic system based on private property, voluntary exchange, competition, freedom of entry and association, and freedom of contract—including wages negotiated without government-imposed minimums. Government’s role is that of a referee: protecting property rights, enforcing contracts, and preventing force and fraud, not...

[snip] Trump’s remarks sparked a wave of condemnations, including from CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, who said that “socialism, much less democratic socialism, is not communism.” Statements like Collins’s highlight how little attention the press has given to the Democratic Socialists of America and its national leadership. The majority of the DSA’s governing board, the National Political Committee (NPC), openly identifies with Communist ideology. [snip] The 2025 convention marked another turning point for the NPC, as the committee expanded in size and Communist-aligned caucuses secured a majority. Far-left news aggregator Fight for a Future reported that the NPC...

This woman has become a disaster. It’s part of an embarrassing track record for Democrats in some crucial Senate races. In Maine, they had Graham Plater, who had Nazi tattoos, booted only to replace him with Troy Jackson, whose relationships would put 23 and Me through a loop. James Talarico has gone missing in Texas, which is fitting since he has an affinity for all things woke and weird; he thinks God is non-binary. And now Mary Peltola, the former Alaska congresswoman, is vying to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who puts the ‘temp’ in temperamental. The New York Times...

France’s revolting students vowed Thursday night they are only getting started and plan to continue their nationwide rioting, blockades, demonstrations and boycotts now and into the foreseeable future. FRANCE24 reports at least a dozen demonstrations supporting the high school students’ anti-establishment movement were planned across France into Friday after a rally at Place de la Bastille in Paris saw tear gas and a water cannon were fired at protesters. The mass mobilisation of students in concert with far-left political parties has seen street violence soar to record levels across France in the past three weeks. Police have made more than...

Country music singer Ella Langley is facing an online backlash. But it’s not about political statements, as is the case with many celebrities. It’s not even about her music. People are incensed at her because she posted pictures of herself posing with deer she hunted. Now, people on social media are all in a tizzy because she enjoys the same activities as many male country singers.

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs. They will no longer separate kids by ability. Why? To address “inequity.” “This is so misguided,” education researcher Michael Petrilli said in my new video. “These equity people say, ‘Oh, we’re against gifted education.’ At the same time, they’re upset that universities aren’t very diverse. Guess what? The [equity advocates] are a big part of the problem.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the devout Catholic conservative who has long warned of animus against religion in America, says in a new book that he believes the court's landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty." ... "In dissent from that ruling," he said in the 2018 address, "I expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry -- or, if you like, with dignitary harm -- would drive believers out of public life." Alito suggests that his prediction has come to pass.

The notion that conservatives care about discrimination against whites is merely a “myth,” according to an article published last week by Law & Liberty. Citing the 2024 American National Election Survey, which asked voters a battery of questions on many topics but included questions like, “How important is being white to your identity?” and gauged their perceptions of discrimination based on whiteness, author George Hawley tries to make the case that the GOP should move on from these concerns and away from the MAGA coalition that won the presidency for Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Hawley notes that in...