President Trump addressed the nation last night to outline his strategy in Afghanistan. Of course he didn’t go into details,being smarter than his twp predecessors. There were no deadlines or grandiose claims, merely that America would start winning this war and that our eventual withdrawal would be based on conditions [Read More]
In Spring, a young man’s fancy turns to not getting shot, not getting blown up, not drowning and just possibly, making it home alive. Late Spring, anyway. May of 1940. The coast of France. The beaches of Dunkirk. Director Christopher Nolan is described by IMDB as “Best known for his [Read More]
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass.Let me work. – Carl Sandburg One hundred and fifty four years ago today, brave men fought in and around a small town in Pennsylvania to determine whether the Union would [Read More]
This footage of the events leading up to and around D-Day was a lucky find thanks to fellow blogger and WWII veteran, Mr. G. P. Cox of Pacific Paratrooper. The National Archives Unwritten Record Blog by Audrey Amidon Jack Lieb went to Europe in 1943 with two movie cameras: He [Read More]
Unified Patriots by Vassarbushmills (You’ll be happy to know I’ll not have anything else to say on this subject. Time to rock and roll.) In the past two segments I tried to convey how this new civil war should play out, not as a shooting war, but as a [Read More]
By Scott Kirwin As far as I’m concerned secular America has a single holy day, and it’s today. While the day has devolved into a day off to swim, shop or barbecue I think it’s important to remember and give thanks to those who gave everything so that we would [Read More]
By Scott Kirwin As of today Kim JungUn is still in power. Awhile back I imagined a possible scenario where China removes Kim and installs a puppet regime beholden to Beijing but less threatening to its neighbors. I wrote, “China has the power to end the North Korean threat without [Read More]
If you read nothing else today, take the time to read this gripping interview on the November 2015 Bataclan jihad attack in Paris with Eagles of Death Metal vocalist Jesse Hughes. The interview was conducted by Gavin McInnes over at Taki’s Magazine. Hughes’s band was onstage when the jihad killings [Read More]
By Scott Kirwin Since when did America’s “mommy party” the Democrats suddenly get freaked out by Russia? As our own Bookworm summarized in her must-read piece, “This whole “scary Russia and Trump” position is a set-up. Until Trump appeared on the scene, the Democrat party was all over Putin and Russia. Hillary [Read More]
by Robert J. Avrech Part I can be found here. We continue our analysis of The Battle of Algiers, one of the most influential propaganda films of the 20th century. We rely on Alistair Horne’s, Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 , the most thorough and accurate history of that war yet [Read More]
Erdoğan and the Turks aren’t interested in fighting ISIS, but carving out a slice of Syria for themselves and destroying the Kurds who actually are… as Obama turns his back on another ally. [Read More]
Blogpal and Watcher’s Council mate Courtney Messerschmidt, aka GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD has a nifty piece in Foreign Policy that sheds a great deal of light on how Osama’s seawater nap looks to people who have literally grown up in the shadow of 9/11…plus you get a fetching photo of her [Read More]
By The Political Commentator Via Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts: Is this breaking news or the stating of the incredibly obvious? The results of a poll conducted by Reuters indicated what most of us already knew. A stunning 36% of those asked to assess President Obama’s performance as Commander-in-Chief [Read More]
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