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This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

On Monday, David Zukerman wrote a good piece about Peggy Noonan and her WSJ editorial concerning former President Donald Trump. Noonan argues that electing Donald Trump again would destroy the Republican Party. Peggy may be right, and I hope she is.Trump's success in 2016 was, in large part, due to the way that he took the mechanisms of the Republican political machine and used them to secure victory. He ran a third-party-style campaign within the structure of the Republican Party. The "party" as a corporate entity was against him, but grassroots Republicans in name and philosophy were all in for...

We all know it’s coming and in various ways we are bracing for it. You’ll be navigating workplaces, city streets, social media feeds, and corporate events celebrating it. The first thing to understand is that “Pride month” does not mean the same thing to everyone.

Recently a number of politically motivated business strategies have prompted boycotts of various stores and products. The two most well-known have been Anheuser-Busch and Target. Some people say that these boycotts won’t last (despite the Anheuser-Busch effort going into its second month, with the company’s stock price falling over 20%), but it is important for them to be effective that they do last.By sticking with the boycotts, people are once more finding their voices. Mainstream voices have been squelched at the ballot boxes with information damaging to certain candidates being hidden at election time, the expansion of mail-in ballots without...

Every now and again, the left says exactly what they truly think. This past week, a cadre of left-wing commentators took a break from lecturing the rest of the nation about civility — "Wear a mask! Check your privilege! Bake the cake, bigot!" — to review my new book, "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs."

About 20% of applications for California community colleges are fraudulent, according to the State Chancellor's Office. Richard Valicenti, 64, received an out-of-the-ordinary check in the mail last summer. It was $1,400 for a Pell Grant to attend Saddleback College in Orange County, CA. Valicenti, a radiation oncologist at UC Davis, was well-beyond his college years and also had "never heard" of the college he was allegedly attending and getting federal aid for, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. While Valicenti was perplexed, college admissions directors and administrators are all too familiar with the situation. Valicenti's identity had been stolen by criminals...

With June comes Graduation Season. We had one granddaughter walk this year, and that was in another state. My wife went and I stayed home to watch the dogs. I’ve always been ambivalent about graduations. I loathed high school and was just glad to be out. The end of college meant that I would need to find gainful employment and wait for my first student loan notice to arrive in the mail. But I know for many people, graduation is a big deal, not just for the graduates but their families. Graduation was probably a big deal for Travis Lohr,...

A U.S. intelligence community whistleblower claims UFOs have crashed, our government has them, and they have clear evidence they are not of human origin. Here’s the story to watch in your spare time. VIDEO AT LINK............. Reactions have been as expected. Some are saying, “See, I knew it!” Many are yawning, claiming they didn’t need a whistleblower to tell them what they already knew. Most are unaware because corporate media is conspicuously ignoring the story. Then, there’s Tucker Carlson’s take. The short version is that this should be the biggest story talked about by corporate media but they’re not allowed...

Now being slammed as a 'senseless act of violence', the Saturday attack happened at one of the chain's stores in Mesquite - a suburb of Dallas The violence started around 9pm - after one of the clerks seen in the footage refused to sell the tobacco product to a member of the party under the age of 21 ....The rejection led the unidentified suspect to return with other juveniles. After a brief word exchange, the attack ensued - and its entirety was caught on camera.

LGBTQ organizations can threaten and make demands, but no others can? Ah, I see. A University of Michigan professor referred to boycotts, and other threats against ultra-woke big-box retailer Target as a form of literal terrorism in a recent interview on MSNBC. The retail giant recently shed more than $9 billion in market value since it rolled out an extensive LGBTQ Pride collection of apparel and accessories, some aimed at toddlers and babies. After it was revealed that the stores sold LGBTQ-themed onesies for babies, children's books advocating for drag queen shows, and "tuck-friendly" bathing suits, the Minneapolis-based retailer’s value...

Former Vice President Mike Pence promised “the best days of the greatest nation on earth are yet to come" in a video released Wednesday formally launching his campaign for the Republican nomination for president. “Different times call for different leadership,” Pence, who served four years alongside then-President Donald Trump, says in the video, released via Fox News and Twitter hours ahead of a kickoff event in Des Moines. “Today our party and our country need a leader that’ll appeal, as Lincoln said, to the better angels of our nature." While it would be “easy to stay on the sidelines,” he...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shed some new light on the health habits of Americans. According to the report, 8.2% of adults between the ages of 18 and 64 taking prescription medications reported not taking their drugs as prescribed in order to cut costs — adding up to 9.2 million affected Americans. In 2021, out-of-pocket expenses on retail drugs rose to $63 billion — a major factor in many U.S. residents’ decision to stop taking their medications. Roughly 60% of U.S. adults 18 years old or older reported taking at least one prescription medication...

President Joe Biden promised voters in 2020 that he knew how to get things done in Washington and could bring stability to the capital. It seemed like a message out of step with the more combative era brought on by Donald Trump. But Biden prevailed, and as he seeks a second term, he's again trying to frame the race as a referendum on competence and governance, pointing to the bipartisan debt limit and budget legislation he signed Saturday as another exemplar of the success of his approach. The agreement the Democratic president negotiated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other...

"In humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls" (James 1:21). A humble heart is a teachable heart. Scripture speaks of a past, present, and future aspect of salvation. You have been saved from the penalty of sin (salvation), are being saved from the power of sin (sanctification), and will ultimately be saved from the presence of sin (glorification). At first glance James 1:21 may sound like it's written to unbelievers, urging them to receive the Word, which is able to redeem them. But the phrase "save your souls" carries the idea that the implanted Word...

Socialist lawmakers are still pushing statewide rent control, resorting to outright deception and bogus compromise in hopes of passing it before the Legislature wraps up for the year. To sneak through the so-called “Good Cause Eviction” bill, they offer to water down some provisions to attract more votes — with an eye to toughen it back up (or worse) next year or late. The lies start with the bill’s very name: Requiring landlords to have a good reason to evict anyone is fair, right? Except that the bill would make it near-impossible for landlords to evict tenants for almost any...

Former Fox News host describes Vlodymyr Zelensky as 'sweaty and rat-like' and says 'UFOs are actually real' in Twitter broadcast. Tucker Carlson launched his new show on Twitter on Tuesday, spouting 9/11, Ukraine and UFO conspiracies. The former prime time Fox News host gave a 10-minute monologue as he spoke for the first time since being ousted by the cable network. He opened with a pro-Kremlin rant, describing Vlodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, as “sweaty and rat-like” and a “persecutor of Christians”.

Shame is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety.” Feeling ashamed can take us in one of two directions: restitution and redemption or perpetual defeat. It can be a force for good that leads to healthy living, or it can knock you down and keep you there. Let’s consider today how guilt and shame can work together to become a strength that propels us forward. For example, we see King David who, at the height of his power, blew it in a spectacular way. Married himself, he seduced Bathsheba, wife of the...

The elites would really like to get rid of us. Genocide is a potent word. It refers to the decimation of an entire group. It results in destruction on a massive scale. It defies the imagination even though we have often witnessed it in the 20th century. To most people, it is the concerted evisceration of a particular group, whether they be Jews annihilated by the Nazis, Uyghurs by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or the Ukrainians by Stalin. Of the latter, the term Holodomor comes to mind. It was a man-made famine that affected the Soviet republic of Ukraine...

A Texas sheriff’s office has recommended that a San Antonio-area district attorney file criminal charges following an investigation into the transportation in the fall of 49 asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, allegedly on direction from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). It is not clear whom the charges would be filed against, but the case would include both felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, according to the sheriff’s office. “At this time, the case is being reviewed by the DA’s office. Once an update is available, it will be provided to the public,” said Bexar County...

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, June 6. The following is a special to the Bulletin: CINCINNATTI, Saturday, June 6. Advices from Vicksburgh to June 2, contain no particular news. Gen. GRANT is able to press the siege and take care of JOHNSTON, who is posted still at Jackson. His reported march on Memphis is not confirmed. Our siege guns are close up to the enemy's works, and playing vigorously on them and the town. On the 1st inst. the rebels shot 300 horses on the river bank, being unable to feed them. Gen. BLAIR is up the Yazoo. Important news is expected from...