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Erich Hartmann is the highest-scoring fighter ace of all time, recording a total of 352 aerial victories in World War II. After the war, he was imprisoned by the Soviet Union. During his captivity, the Soviets tried to get him to spy on fellow POWs and to adopt communist ideologies. Hartmann refused. He was offered a position in the East German Air Force, to which he responded: If, after I am home in the West, you make me a normal contract offer, a business deal such as people sign every day all over the world, and I like your offer,...

It looks sort of like what we're seeing all around us now. Can’t they see what is going on? I ask this question daily when I wake up and the normies around me pretend that if we jump through our designated hoops, life will go back to normal, only a new normal. The term typically used to describe that which shall not be mentioned is the elephant in the room. The Great Reset is that elephant. What is the Great Reset? It is a global campaign to consolidate control over economies and governments under a single umbrella, and it's on...

The feds have locked up hundreds of people connected to the January 6 riot. That’s all it was, by the way. It was a riot. It was not a violent insurrection. It wasn’t an armed coup. It wasn’t worse than the American Civil War. It sure as hell wasn’t worse than the 9/11 attacks. It was mostly a bunch of people walking around inside the Capitol Building. It’s why Democrats don’t want us to see all the security camera footage. It’s bland and boring as hell—far from the "end of the republic" narrative they’ve been stroking for months. Get over...

Washington -- In September, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sat down with the Washington Times -- known amongst the cognoscenti as the "Good Times" --and made me wish he had never left the House of Representatives. Everything he said made perfect sense, including, I presume, an "Excuse me" or two when he sneezed. It is hay fever season after all. He began by saying that Republicans are facing an election season that they cannot afford "to blow." It is "a once-in-a-generation campaign opportunity to tag all congressional Democrats as 'big government socialists.'" And he pointed to their support...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Oct. 20. The Government mail from Europe was received here last night. The advices from our Ministers represent the public sentiment of Europe as decidedly growing in favor of the United States. All the advices, even those from England, are of this tenor. The force which went yesterday afternoon under Gen. HANCOCK, passed beyond Vienna, and after a successful reconnoissance returned. To-day a larger force, consisting of two regiments of infantry, two sections of Mott's Battery, and two companies of cavalry, marched out in the same direction, and had not returned at six o'clock this evening. RECONNOISSANCE TOWARDS...

A cynical government lawyer describes trying to circumvent religious objections or override them completely. That good Catholic, Joe Biden, is troubled by the fact that people are raising religious objections to taking the COVID vaccine. We know this because a leaked White House telephone call lets us listen in as a Department of Justice attorney works with the administration to brainstorm ways to force vaccines on religious people over their faith-based objections. The First Amendment is a dead letter in the Biden White House. In 1558, when Elizabeth I ascended the English throne, England had seen Catholics and Protestants engaged...

Putting virtue signaling ahead of advancing foriegn policy objectives and explaining the mysteries of ze and zir, as well as LGBTQI+, to the Talban and others. Now that the Biden administration is treating the Taliban as some kind of partner, allowing them to determine who was flown out of Afghanistan at the time of our abandonment of a massive trove of armaments and depending on them to rescue the large number of Americans left behind, this State Department tweet, issued yesterday, is not going to win a lot of hearts and minds: (tweet at link) Nor is the Arab world...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has entered the spotlight once again following a lawsuit filed earlier this month by 20 state attorneys general, who are aiming to stop his 10-year plan to reorganize the U.S. Postal Service. It is fair to conclude these 20 attorneys general, all Democrats, are going after him in part because he was appointed by President Trump. But it’s also fair to say that DeJoy’s plan appears to exacerbate many of the problems it was supposed to address. The Postal Service has two lines of products, basically – one that is monopoly protected and one that sells...

Small victories are still victories, and worth celebrating. So, as we — all Americans — come to realize just how much critical race theory has come to permeate our discourse and our dialogues, we are fighting back. We are reclaiming that most self-evident of truths— all men are created equal. Last week, the Ohio State Board of Education repealed an “anti-racism” resolution and replaced it with something far more meaningful. Gone was the language of division, blame, and condemnation; in its place was offered something more hopeful. The Board stood against teachings that “seek to ascribe circumstances or qualities, such...

In the age of experimental gene therapy mandates, so much for religious accommodation. By now, it has become painfully clear that many big businesses no longer side with employees or customers and have eagerly embraced the left's ideas. They are now active and willing participants in the destruction of America. This is easily seen by the fact that many big businesses, eagerly and without reservation, have embraced the federal vaccine mandate despite no actual published rules having been put in place. All it took to achieve vast compliance was the president yelling at the unvaccinated and telling America that his...

In a significant win for supporters of Second Amendment rights, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania granted a preliminary injunction order to William Drummond and the Second Amendment Foundation, Inc. on October 13, 2021. Drummond had sought to open a sportsman’s club at an existing range that had operated as the Greater Pittsburgh Gun Club since the middle 1960s. It consists of 265 acres in Robinson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.In December of 2017, Drummond entered into a lease to operate the club. On February 19, 2018, the Robinson Township Board of Supervisors commenced proceedings to...

For more than a century, business experts have been trying to dial up the United States’ efficiency. Ever since Frederick Taylor published “The Principles of Scientific Management” in 1911, companies have focused on doing things more quickly, and raising consumers’ expectations as a result. But Taylor’s ideas didn’t take into account the havoc a pandemic might do to supply chains — and how that would blunt what a few months ago seemed like a looming resumption of modern daily life’s zippy pace. Across the country, Americans’ expectations of speedy service and easy access to consumer products have been crushed like...

These days, “black oppression” is a tactic used in dirty politics. But in my early life, it was very real. The Jim Crow days were a landscaped wilderness between slavery and freedom – a mirage of freedom. But I’ll spare the stories. It’s over. Holding on to that stuff is like walking around with a corpse on your back. Drag it around for too long and your soul rots from moral gangrene – a spirit of revenge if you have power; a spirit of resentment if you don’t. If you have both, you become Maxine Waters. So, no. During the...

Executive edicts are destroying lives.

SAN FRANCISCO -- COVID travel restrictions are slowly easing up, but rules keep changing and vary from one place to the next. So when a California couple booked a trip to Greece, they had no idea of the nightmare ahead. Greece had lifted travel restrictions and this couple had all the documents Greece requires. But the trip unraveled when they tried to connect to their flight in Switzerland. They were stopped at the gate and worse, the police came and arrested them. "I was shocked. I thought it was some kind of a joke, like we'd be able to just...

Video vixen Tawny Kitaen's cause of death has been revealed. Kitaen, known for her roles in a number of ‘80s music videos, died on May 7. A spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in California confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that the star's cause of death was dilated cardiomyopathy. The manner of death was ruled natural. According to the spokesman, other significant conditions included: mild coronary atherosclerosis; mirtazapine, mirtazapine metabolite, alprazolam, acetaminophen, pregabalin, and hydrocodone. Kitaen was 59 years old when she died at her home in Newport Beach, California. Her daughters, Wynter and Raine, first confirmed their...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell may want to move past former President Donald Trump but polls indicate overcoming the former president's base will be a tall order for the GOP Senate leader. McConnell sees Trump's constant spotlight on the alleged voter fraud that occurred in the 2020 election as a detriment to Republican efforts to retake control of Congress. While McConnell wants 2022 candidates to be focusing on President Joe Biden, Trump remains the leader of the GOP despite holding no official title and polls indicate that he still commands strong support among members of the party. A YouGov/Economist poll...

The premiere of the third season of the HBO show “Succession,” which you can’t read about without some mention of it being “loosely based” on the Fox News founder, was last Sunday. It’s the story of Logan Roy, his children, and the family media business. As a show, it’s fine and I enjoy it. But as honest commentary or even interesting satire, it’s terrible because the leftists who make it can’t get over their Fox Derangement Syndrome. The show can’t decide if it’s a comedy or a drama, which is very similar to real life. But this comes from Adam...

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There’s dumb, and then there’s the Biden administration. Just the other day, the Chi Coms fired off a hypersonic missile. It goes up on a rocket, then glides back to earth toward is target at about five times the speed of sound, and has the ability to zig and zag so that our missile defense systems can’t hit it. Now, you strap a hot rock to the tip, and that presents a multiple megaton problem for us. So, let’s make a goof of it. The ridiculous Jenn Psaki, speaking to the trained seals that make up the majority of the...