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A candid book about small wars, Muslim conflicts in particular, is a rare volume these days. Government sponsored and/or commercial authors are loath to touch anything Islamic, especially fascist religious states like ISIS, in any context tactical, operational, or strategic. Writers with the grit to challenge or take on CENTCOM, the USAF, or the strategic conventional wisdom at the Pentagon should be read if for no other reason than as a salute to literary bollocks. After all, small wars aren’t just trending anymore, conflict in the Ummah is now an American military albatross. Mind you, Ben Lambeth is no Daniel...

The 2006 movie, Idiocracy depicted a comically exaggerated American Dystopia. Anything resembling reason and logic had all but been abandoned. Over the decades the fundamentals had taken such a nosedive that farmers were watering their crops with Gatorade instead of water and people started picking up advanced degrees from Costco. It was great fun, but I had not given it much thought until a few weeks ago. It has become apparent in the last few months that logic itself has been 'cancelled'. Rational thought is what keeps such Idiocracies at bay -- short-circuiting anything that has gone too far outside...

The Biden administration is scrambling to shelter thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border from Central America. The media are declaring the crush at the border a "crisis." Truth is, this crisis could be heading to your school district. If your kids are in public school or you pay school taxes, you need to know the facts. The media show photos of young migrant children. Don't fall for that. Three-quarters of these unaccompanied minors are young men ages 15 to 17. Think tattoos, not teddy bears. These teens are carrying the name and phone number of a relative in...

How to stop them hasn't changed, either. In the 1770s, London was a riotous place. The city had always been a center of liberal opinion, and thousands of residents belonged to radical groups. Apprentices were notorious for their rowdy behavior, and secret societies that questioned authority abounded. From anarchists to levelers to members of fanatical religious orders, radicals engaged in everything from street attacks on the rich to arson to espionage on the part of foreign powers. During the Gordon riots of June 1780, tens of thousands of left-wing protesters marched on the House of Parliament; attacked Catholic churches, businesses,...

How to explain Joe Biden's ideological transformation over the years? Perhaps it's the same as the explanation of why the chameleon's complexion changes when he moves from desert to forest: adaptation to local terrain. About the Biden transformation there can be no question. The senator who opposed government financing of abortions for 30-some years now supports it -- and up through the ninth month of pregnancy. The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman who sponsored and bragged about the tough provisions of the 1994 crime bill now decries systemic racism and echoes almost the entire Black Lives Matter mantra. The politician who...

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change. Dalton is one of the most selective private schools in Manhattan, in part because it knows the answer to an important question: What do hedge-funders want?They want what no one else has. At Dalton, that means an “archaeologist in residence,” a teaching kitchen, a rooftop greenhouse, and a theater proscenium lovingly restored after it was “destroyed by a previous renovation.” So it was a misstep when Jim Best, the head of school—relatively new, and with a salary of $700,000—said that...

A wax museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, removed its wax statue of former President Trump after it was repeatedly vandalized, the San Antonio Express-News reports. Louis Tussaud's Waxworks pulled the figure from public view after it sustained multiple beatings, and transferred it into storage. The scratches on the Trump figure's face were especially damaging, said Clay Stewart, the regional manager of parent company Ripley's Entertainment.

The Root is obviously a hyperbolically racial magazine, since its slogan is "The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth." It's not surprising that it frequently publishes writer Damon Young, author of the memoir "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker." We're told he asked important and dramatic questions like "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?" Young's memoir was honored as "required reading" by NPR and celebrated by Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post, among others. He became a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. The paranoia overflowed from this self-described "professional Black person" on St....

Mayor de Blasio on Thursday said cops should “confront” people accused of “hurtful” behavior — even if the behavior doesn’t rise to the level of a crime. Asked if the NYPD and city could be doing more to thwart the troubling surge in hate crimes against Asians, Hizzoner suggested the warnings could be a last resort. “Even if something is not a criminal case, a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it’s NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they’ve done was very hurtful to another person — and could, if ever repeated, lead to criminal charges...

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Video clips of disturbing attacks on the street. Insults hurled by politicians. Derogatory graffiti scrawled on businesses. For most of the last year, Asian-Americans have sounded the alarm over the rising discrimination they have experienced and witnessed, fueled in part by racist language and false claims about the coronavirus by former President Donald J. Trump and other public officials. Celebrities, activists and influencers on social media have implored people to stop the hate against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.

A former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has accused him of sexual harassment, recalled seeing a dartboard bearing Mayor de Blasio’s face at the Executive Mansion in an interview published Thursday.

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Last night, CNN's Brian Stelter contacted us about "Newsmax's ratings declines for my CNN newsletter." Stelter contacted Newsmax at 9 p.m. on Wednesday night and said he would give us just one hour to respond, meaning a 10 p.m. deadline. Without Newsmax's response, CNN's Stelter email newsletter, headlined "Newsmax's rise and fall," noted that "Newsmax TV gained a lot of attention last fall when disaffected Fox News fans flocked to the channel en masse. ... Newsmax's Nielsen ratings are way off the post-election highs that I wrote about three and four months ago."

March 19 2021 Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, Houston, Texas Lectionary 248First reading2 Samuel 7:4-5,12-14,16 ©The Lord will give him the throne of his ancestor DavidThe word of the Lord came to Nathan: ‘Go and tell my servant David, Thus the Lord speaks: “When your days are ended and you are laid to rest with your ancestors, I will preserve the offspring of your body after you and make his sovereignty secure. (It is he who shall build a house for my name, and I will make his royal throne secure for ever.) I will be a father to him and...

" . . .Milwaukee Circuit Court judge Brett Blomme, who also served as the President and CEO of an LGBTQ+ foundation in Wisconsin called “Cream City Foundation” (gross) was just arrested and charged with SEVEN counts of possessing child pornography on Tuesday. Brett Blomme is an elected judge for Branch 5 of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. His foundation “Cream City” (gross) organizes and promotes “Drag Queen Story Hour” on its website. Big League Politics reported that an edited roster page on the Cream City Foundation’s website also profiles Blomme, describing him as a CEO and Past President of the...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas gun rights activist who ran unsuccessfully for governor three years ago said Wednesday that she's challenging Sen. John Boozman in the state's Republican primary in 2022. Jan Morgan said she will run against Boozman, who is seeking his third term next year. Former President Donald Trump last week endorsed Boozman's reelection bid. But Morgan accused Boozman of not being conservative enough and criticized his votes certifying President Joe Biden's victory over Trump in the November election. The House and Senate in January overwhelmingly rejected objections to the results in two states. "When the...

SEVERAL ARKANSAS DEMOCRATS HAVE RESPONDED TO THE NEWS THAT JAN MORGAN, A VETERAN REPORTER TURNED FIREARMS INSTRUCTOR, IS RUNNING AGAINST “ESTABLISHMENT SHILL” SEN. JOHN BOOZMAN IN A PUBLIC COMMENTS SECTION OF THE ARKANSAS TIMES, A LEADING ONLINE AND PRINT OPINION PUBLICATION IN THE STATE. Morgan slammed Boozman for being an establishment member of the Republican Party who is willing to work with Democrats in a her campaign announcement video, as National File reported. “Many of us worked hard to help our President drain the swamp, but now the future of America is up to us. Will we the people pick...

This bill could be the key to securing the southern border.Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton filed a bill in the Texas House of Representatives on March 4 aimed at creating a fund to pay for “border security enhancement projects.” As an Op-Ed from The Blaze’s Daniel Horowitz explained, it could even lead to the construction of the border wall in certain states.Slaton’s bill would use state funds to complete the border wall in Texas and would require the governor to seek reimbursement from the federal government. In short, if the bill passes in the Texas legislature, the state would be...

The illegal migrants brought to the United States by their illegal migrant parents “are true and legitimate heirs … of our founders,” House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in a Thursday speech on the House floor. Pelosi made her claims as Democrats prepared to vote through an amnesty for at least three million migrants who are now labeled under several categories. They include the many illegals who were brought to the United States as children by their parents. Democrats refer to the child-arrivals as “dreamers,” even though Americans are also dreamers.