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Russia has lost almost 10,000 soldiers in less than four weeks in Ukraine, according to its own figures. The death toll – an incredible tally for a war that the Kremlin believed would be over within days – was published by a pro-government website, but quickly taken down. There was speculation that it was uploaded by a pro-Ukrainian employee. Russia had previously admitted to 498 deaths – but that was on March 2. The news came as satellite photos showed further evidence that Putin's forces were going on the defensive and digging in ahead of a 'long war'. Last night's...

@MaajidNawaz WATCH: “Allying with NAZIS in Ukraine to defeat Putin is as ABSURD as allying with ISIS in Syria to defeat Putin” My talk last night with @TuckerCarlson 2 Minute Clip ...

Omg… just going thru my video. This is a story about a red truck and a tornado…. I CANNOT believe they drove away like that. #txwx #tornado pic.twitter.com/8h0nD88xFv — Brian Emfinger (@brianemfinger) March 22, 2022 Strong tornados strike central Texas. Round Rock Walmart… Tornado at Round Rock Walmart. I don't get paid enough for this shit 😆 @KXAN_News @KVUE @cnnbrk @FoxNews @BBCWorld pic.twitter.com/2kAr62nZJ6 — AtomicSteel (@SteelAtomic) March 22, 2022 Amazing @KXAN_Weather video of on the ground tornado crossing I-35 in Round Rock @ 45 just north of Austin pic.twitter.com/eJvCsYnsCN — Evil MoPac (@EvilMopacATX) March 21, 2022 Monster tornado just passed...

Hopefully by now everyone is well aware how the U.S. State Department has been manipulating the internal politics of Ukraine for well over a decade. A recent statement, by current Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, puts the weeks leading up to the Russian invasion into greater clarity. In an interview with CNN, Zelenskyy spoke about his prior communication with Joe Biden and NATO leadership. Within the interview Zelenskyy said (emphasis mine): “I requested them personally to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five, just say it directly and clearly, or...

LLP #91: "Military Analysis of Ukraine War" In this podcast, Eric and Matt discuss the current status of the Ukraine War based on their previous military experiences.

Joe Rogan voiced his support for "the deep state" - a conspiracy theory peddled by Donald Trump and his followers that refers to a secret network of career politicians and federal agents - on a Saturday episode of his podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience." In an interview with former CIA officer Mike Baker, Rogan made his case. "One of the things that the tinfoil-hat brigade likes to talk about is the deep state," he said. "They always like to talk about the deep state. What I was saying is, what if we didn't have a deep state?" he continued. "Do...

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ON BOARD STEAMBOAT HUGH HASTINGS, Saturday, March 15, 1862. An opportunity offering itself to reach Fortress Monroe by the way of the Potomac River, we gladly availed ourselves of the privilege. On board the boat we found that a fellow-correspondent and Professor LOWE, the celebrated aeronaut, were to be our traveling companions; we also learned from the Captain that the boat would stop at various landings on the Virginia and Maryland side. Thus a desire which we had long entertained was about to be gratified, viz.: an opportunity to thoroughly inspect those batteries which had blockaded the Potomac, and whose...

The sole survivor of a deadly Long Island massacre by the notorious MS-13 gang described in court Monday how he ran for his life as one of the machete-wielding thugs shouted, “Hack him!” Elmer Alexander Arteaga Ruiz, 22, delivered his chilling testimony as he came face to face with Leniz Escobar — the steely-eyed defendant dubbed the “Little Devil” ---SNIP--- “They were just high-school kids,” she said. “They were trying to look tough and get attention. The members of MS-13 saw these pictures on social media and saw these pictures as a deep sign of disrespect, enough to justify death.

Tucker Carlson used his monologue tonight to note something we have discussed at length here. Western government leaders continue to make statements about “representative democracy” in comparison to “autocratic non-western government”, yet they make these public statements while personifying autocracy itself...

Many recent posts on this blog have dealt with the theme of the infeasibility of a fully wind/solar/storage electricity system. Today I will deal with another study of the subject, this one from German authors Oliver Ruhnau and Staffan Qvist, titled “Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: Extreme events and inter-annual variability.” The Ruhnau/Qvist study does not have a date other than “2021,” although it appears to have come out toward the end of that year. Although Ruhnau and Qvist do not say it explicitly, my conclusion from their paper is that it is a further demonstration of...

Each night, Ukrainian pilots like Andriy loiter in an undisclosed aircraft hanger, waiting, waiting, until the tension is broken with a shouted, one-word command: “Air!” Andriy hustles into his Su-27 supersonic jet and hastily taxis toward the runway, getting airborne as quickly as possible. He takes off so fast that he doesn’t yet know his mission for the night, though the big picture is always the same — to bring the fight to a Russian Air Force that is vastly superior in numbers but has so far failed to win control of the skies above Ukraine. “I don’t do any...

Leftism is entropy and it portends death. In Christianity and Culture, T.S. Eliot wrote of liberalism: . . . it is something that tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax, rather than to fortify. It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point; away from, rather than towards, something definite. Our point of departure is more real to us than our destination; and the destination is likely to present a very different picture when arrived at, from the vaguer image formed in imagination. By destroying traditional social habits of the...

VIDEOShe thought the job of Veep would merely be a case of her "Being There." Unfortunately Kamala Harris has to speak in public which has revealed that there is no there there. As a result you can see her channeling Chauncey Gardiner whenever she spews meaningless word salads.

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Once upon a time, a Supreme Court nomination was largely noncontentious. The general approach of the Senate’s advise-and-consent mandate was that the primary determination of who should earn a seat on the bench was determined by voters in the most recent presidential election. Nominees were often simply confirmed on a voice vote, sent by the Senate to lifetime appointments across the street with little debate. As you probably noticed, that is no longer the case. Not only are voice votes extinct, so are broadly bipartisan confirmation votes. The last Supreme Court nominee to have received more than 70 votes was...

The same type of cultural revolution that unfolded disastrously in Mao’s China is taking place in America’s law schools—and it must be stopped. People who hate lawyers like to quote Shakespeare’s line from Henry VI: “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” That’s completely wrong. In the play, it was the anarchy-demanding mob that gave voice to the sentiment. Lawyers are the bulwark of the rule of law and civil society. That’s why it matters that today’s law students and young lawyers are demanding that any lawyers who deviate from woke principles when it comes to representing people...

William Shatner, legendary ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Star Trek’ actor, turns 91 on March 22, 2022

As Kissinger said “Control the oil, control the nations. Control the food, control the people.” Americans awakening to the Orwellian Rule of Joe Biden and his crew of thieves have noticed that the perpetual lying is designed to inculcate pliancy through fear. When the COVID-19 hysteria began to wane, Big Brother Biden switched gears to the Ukraine crisis. Intriguingly, both crises have been caused by the government Biden heads – COVID-19 was crafted in Wuhan, and the Obama administration set the scene for making Ukraine America’s pawn in the current conflict. Conning Americans with one fear-lie to eclipse the previous,...

I sort of sympathize with puppet masters using Joe Biden as their front man in the Oval Office. He doesn’t know his limitations, he’s headstrong, and he’s garrulous. So, he is prone to spilling the beans when he’s been briefed about the plans for the schemes they are implementing. That happened Monday when he made a brief speech to the Business Roundtable – a group of powerful executives, just the sort of people Biden loves to schmooze and (he thinks) impress. Toward the end, as his voice and demeanor were weakening, he blurted out the real agenda. Ryan Saavedra of...