Bessent has a ‘SPINE OF STEEL’: Former national security adviser on ‘Economic Outcast’

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Former National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien joins ‘Kudlow’ to discuss the European Union joining ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ to isolate Iran’s financial lifelines and freeze IRGC assets.

When Uncle Sam Ordered a Sewing Machine Company to Make a .45

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Before America entered World War II, Uncle Sam looked at the Singer Sewing Machine Company and essentially asked, “Nice factory. Can you make a .45?” The result was just 500 Singer M1911A1 pistols—one of today’s great military-firearms collectibles. Singer wasn’t forced into gunmaking by the Defense Production Act; that law wouldn’t exist until 1950. Instead, the Army paid civilian companies to learn military production before the shooting started. It was industrial mobilization with refreshingly little mystery: you cannot surge a factory you don’t have.

Flock Cameras Violate Our Constitutional Rights To Privacy… Or Do They???

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Twenty-three years in an Army uniform, a decade running an ambulance, four kids, and a piece of mail from the City of Cleveland accusing me of a hit and run I did not commit. I am not retelling that story here. I already spent an entire article on it, and if you missed it, go find it. What I will tell you is what happened after that article went up.

Donald ‘Jed Clampett’ Trump: The world runs on oil. The USA is getting back to controlling the world’s oil.

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Red China is hurting for certain. The world’s largest oil importer lost oil from Iran and Venezuela, which supplied 15% of the oil it bought last year.

Under Trump, the USA is a net exporter of oil. That should be the case for decades to come because thanks to President Trump and Chief Warrant Officer Five Eric A. Slover, America now controls 65 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela. Slover is the helicopter pilot who took a licking of bullets but kept on ticking as the military extracted Maduro on January 3, earning a Medal of Honor.

Good Bye Reagan National: Convenience Is No Longer Worth the Risk

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Reagan National was a perfectly reasonable airport when it opened in 1941. Eighty-five years later, we’ve packed commercial jets, military helicopters, presidential transportation, restricted airspace and national-security missions into the same tiny patch of sky—and the warning signs are getting difficult to ignore. After 67 deaths, an emergency airspace redesign, repeated communications failures and a Marine One separation incident, perhaps the problem isn’t the latest procedure or antenna. Perhaps Washington’s convenience has simply outlived the acceptable risk.

Fauci Breaks the Reagan Rule – 111 Times

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When President Reagan was negotiating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with the Soviet Union, he repeatedly said his rule was “Trust but verify.” Those simple three words summarize a truism about human nature. Trust is only possible in an environment of transparency and accountability. It cannot exist when the party demanding trust, is also hiding the truth.

Welcome to the Pentagon Wars: The National Guard Still Hates Me

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The Pentagon doesn’t fight just one kind of war. Some are fought with tanks and rifles; others with spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and somebody quietly asking, “Where haven’t they spent their money yet?” Born from Robert McNamara’s 1960s-era attempt to bring rational analysis to defense spending, the POM process evolved into an institutionalized food fight where the Active Army, National Guard, and Army Reserve defend their rice bowls while hunting for everyone else’s leftovers. I happened to be pretty good at looking under the fiscal seat cushions—and somewhere, I suspect, a retired National Guard programmer still mutters my name. Welcome to the Pentagon Wars.

Dear Lexington gang-bangers: imitating Killadelphia isn’t a good idea.

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Did I jinx the city of Lexington? The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Saturday afternoon that: (This) was the third weekend in a row for fatal shootings in Lexington, after six months when no homicides were reported. I noted, on August 14th: Lexington, Kentucky, current population 329,791, has seen four murders so far in 2026. Philly has …

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Trump succeeded where FDR failed

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Hey media: Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it. Somehow they can fact-check Trump but the First Amendment protects them from being fact-checked.

Kristen Welker of Meet the Press said of Trump on NBC 4 in DC, “He’s going to loom large over these midterms. There’s no doubt about that. He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He’s had some mixed results, but most recently, his pick of Senator Darline Graham, of course, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, was successful in her primary battle, so now she takes on Dr. Annie Andrews in South Carolina.”

The results are not mixed. He endorsed 260 candidates who went on to win Republican primaries and only 9 losers. That’s a .967 batting average rounded off to 97%.

The Greatest Generation Didn’t Have A Port Call Scheduled

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The Greatest Generation didn’t have Wi-Fi, DoorDash, FaceTime, scheduled port calls—or an expected return date. They had a war to win. Today’s sailors aren’t the problem; they’re products of a culture that has become extraordinarily good at eliminating discomfort. The question isn’t whether young Americans are “soft.” It’s whether America still teaches resilience before history demands it the hard way.

The Pacific Ocean doesn’t have an HR department, and the enemy doesn’t care about your deployment schedule.

Here We Go

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Columnist and musician, Sean Dietrich, aka Sean of the South, and his sister are setting out to climb Pikes Peak in honor of their father. The man became a runner overnight and frequently ran the Pikes Peak Marathon. His ashes are scattered atop this “fourteener,” as hikers call it, or mountain with an elevation over 14,000 feet. Sadly, the Dietrich patriarch died by his own hand when Sean was just 10. Sean writes eloquently and honestly about his struggles with with forgiving his father. We wish him and his sister a successful climb, good fellowship and peace and healing as they remember their father and his impact on their lives.