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Could Great Britain have crushed the American rebellion? An expert argues that, while better generalship and politics might have delayed defeat, the odds were stacked against London from the start. Holding a vast, underdeveloped continent with a small population, across an ocean, was a nightmare even for Europe’s strongest navy and army. Saratoga and French intervention made things worse, forcing Britain to fight a global war while trying to subdue the colonies. In the end, distance, imperial overreach, and political inflexibility meant the empire was likely to lose North America sooner or later.

"I am not a conservative. I am a radical—a radical monarchist. I believe there are no rails—and never were any. America has no manifest destiny. Her constitution was not divinely inspired. No special providence was involved in her founding, nor has she discovered any unique principle of human governance. Nor can any theory of historical determinism, whether liberal, Marxist or libertarian, explain, predict or guarantee her future—which, like all future history, is a contingent and unwritten blank page in the hands of men only." Thus begin the self-revelations of Curtis Yarvin, radical monarchist and scorner of the American founding, in...

“ Richard Weikart of California State University says that Metaxas “serves up a Bonhoeffer suited to the evangelical taste” and notes with disbelief that in “an interview with Christianity Today Metaxas even made the astonishing statement that Bonhoeffer was as orthodox theologically as the apostle Paul.” As orthodox as Paul? Metaxas does not seem to know that in his Christology lectures in 1933 Bonhoeffer claimed, “The biblical witness is uncertain with regard to the virgin birth.” Bonhoeffer also rejected the notion of the verbal inspiration of scripture, and in a footnote to Cost of Discipleship he warned against viewing statements...

President Donald Trump has confirmed he intends to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over a Panorama broadcast that used an edited version of one of his speeches. Speaking to The Telegraph aboard Air Force One, Trump said he expects to file a damages claim as early as next week, seeking "between $1 billion and $5 billion." "I think I have to," he said. Trump added that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was "very embarrassed" by the incident and said he planned to speak with Sir Starmer during the weekend. Earlier this month, The Telegraph reported that Panorama had...

___________________ @MTG I want to thank the courageous women who are Epstein survivors that wrote this beautiful letter of support for me. I’ve got your back! I look forward to seeing some of you this week. Stay strong!!

Buoyed by his Party's success in the recent election, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) told Symone Sanders, co-host for MSNBC's The Weeknight, "we will win the mid-term elections next November. When we are a majority in both the House and Senate we will put a stop to the Republicans' frivolous investigations of past alleged misdeeds by Democrats and plunge into Democrat investigations of current crimes being committed by Trump and his minions. On January 3, 2027 we will introduce impeachment resolutions against Trump, Vance, and every member of the Cabinet. Criminal charges will be brought against all of them who do...

VIDEOThe U.S. Senator from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin, is DESPERATE to get on the Democrat presidential ticket in 2028. That is why you are starting to see a lot more of her in the media as well as the former (meaning also current) CIA member being hyped by the CIA aligned media such as Politico as a potential 2028 presidential or VP candidate. The problem for Slotkin is that in large part due to her BIZARRE background such as having been raised by two lesbian moms she has to "normalize" herself which means attempting to appear as just a mainstream midwestern...

In its efforts to find every anti-Trump story line it can, the PBS News Hour is touting members of the military who are seeking outside legal advice about whether the missions assigned by the Trump administration are legally justified, starting with the drug-boat bombings. Brett T. at Twitchy cracked: "It seems as though PBS got a press release from 'The Orders Project,' an outfit run by a former Army lawyer. We're sure it's nonpartisan." It's part of the National Institute of Military Justice, founded in 2020 to question the legality of military matters through pro bono legal consultations. Is it...

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s a common adage, but a few learner drivers in the United Kingdom are taking that to extremes. According to the UK’s Automobile Association (AA), one person has taken their theory test 128 times and still not passed. That’s a staggering amount – and what’s more, they’ve spent at least £2,944 ($3,866) trying to make the cut. They’re not the only one to have taken the test a ridiculous number of times as the AA pointed to another would-be-driver, who finally passed their theory test after the 75th attempt in 2024....

PULSE POINTS❓WHAT HAPPENED: Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed that 186,000 dead people are receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food stamps, with half a million recipients receiving double benefits.👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, and state governments providing SNAP data.📍WHEN & WHERE: Rollins shared this information this week, following data collection from 29 states earlier this year.💬KEY QUOTE: “But here’s the most unbelievable news I have [learned] really just over the last few days: That 5,000 dead people, that was just one month; the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this...

The Court of Appeal ordered former President Nicolas Sarkozy released from prison on Monday. Sarkozy returning home to his previous house arrest status awaiting appeal of his latest corruption conviction... On Tuesday French President Emmanuel Macron receiving Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas... A somber ceremony on Thursday commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan terrorist attacks... 130 people killed in the various terrorist attacks in Paris... In Paris this afternoon a seventh anniversary commemoration of the Yellow Vests protests...

While a number of industrialized nations provide health care through a single payer (government run) system, others have made a public-private system the model they use to guarantee health services to all their citizens. One of those nations is Israel which (as it turns out) has a lot to teach the United States on how to operate a universal health system that is based on both private and public inputs. Israel adopted its national health system in 1995 requiring all permanent residents be provided a standard basket of services including physician care, hospitalization, prescription drugs and dental care for children...

Federal prosecutors have filed additional terrorism-related charges against six additional people in connection with the July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland immigration detention center near Alvarado, Texas, with six other defendants scheduled to enter guilty pleas. The latest indictment was issued Friday and expands on earlier charges. According to the Associated Press, the new counts relate to President Donald Trump’s declaration of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. The violence occurred on July 4 outside the Prairieland facility, which is southwest of Dallas. Prosecutors say a group of suspects set off fireworks, vandalized vehicles and opened fire on responding officers....

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA !! We are interested in hearing from any Christian individual who has the experience of living and working (or having lived and worked), for 1,000 days or longer, inside of a country governed by a totalitarian or authoritarian system or regime; that governing system/regime being either religious or atheistic. When we say, totalitarian or authoritarian, we give as examples: communist, National Socialist, authoritarian military junta, Islamic or Mohammedan, or the like. If otherwise, you may describe your own situation, and we may find that it applies. We hope to form a...

UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust Legal Director, Natasha Hausdorff, joins media consultant David Ross to discuss her own dealings with BBC News and the BBC’s response to allegations raised in an internal whistleblower report, published by The Telegraph. The memo — written by Michael Prescott — alleged failures in BBC management, concerns about accuracy and impartiality and issues of anti-Israel bias relating to coverage of Israel and the conflict in Gaza. An extract of Prescott's letter includes the following: "Claims against Israel seem to be raced to air or online without adequate checks, evidencing either carelessness or a desire...

Rodrigo Paz, the centrist senator who won the presidential election in Bolivia last month, was sworn in this weekend and immediately set to work to undo the policies of 20 years of nearly-uninterrupted socialist rule... ...Under the socialist rule of Evo Morales, Bolivia saw its energy industry nationalized and generous fuel subsidies paid out for years. These policies resulted in plunging natural gas production, dwindling foreign exchange reserves, a massive economic crisis, and fuel shortages as cheaper fuel in Bolivia encouraged smuggling en masse to neighboring South American countries. The universal fuel subsidy has depleted Bolivia’s U.S. dollar reserves, thus...

(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) The events of January 6th, 2021 have been declared an insurgency, attempted overthrow of the government, and the greatest threat to democracy in history, according to Democrats and the liberal media. In fact, they tried to impeach President Donald Trump accusing him of inciting the insurrection and failed. Then they launched the largest FBI investigation in history to track down all the persons present at the Capitol that they could identify and prosecute them, but yet not a single person was ever charged with insurrection. All of the claims that...

Stacey Plaskett, Looks like Epstein was coaching her. Will the Left ignore this?link

Police found a half-naked woman handcuffed in a Texas backyard who had been tortured for a considerable period of time by five people she knew for years, authorities said. The Austin Police Department said in a statement that officers conducted a welfare check just after 9 a.m. Oct. 30 after a report regarding a "woman in distress who appeared to be restrained and calling for help." Police said they discovered a woman outside a home who was "handcuffed to a piece of exercise equipment." "The woman showed signs of physical distress and had visible injuries consistent with prolonged restraint," the...

VIDEOIn case there has been anyone who has lived on an island isolated from the outside world for the past ten years, they would probably have trouble understanding the deep scope of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, as described by psychotherapist Jonathan Alter. However, with the aid of Jim Breuer translating Alpert's analysis of TDS into comedy, they would definitely have a much better understanding about the wide plague of TDS.