The Academy Loses Its Way – Again

By John R. “Buck” Surdu This week ESPN reported that Army football player Andre Carter II was poised to be the first Army football player to be drafted in the NFL higher the seventh round in over fifty years. This sparked debate on some of the social media sites for Academy graduates. “In December, Congress passed …

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Where is the “Powell Doctrine” When We Need It?

We have spent $113B in Ukraine and shipped them weapons and munitions we will likely need in a war with China that many general officers predict by 2025. If we had America-loving leaders instead of America-hating fascists running the country, we might have a more rational and explicable approach to Ukraine. Instead, we have typical …

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Will Ron DeSantis Run for President?

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Ron DeSantis, the current Governor of Florida, who won reelection by a landslide, will run for President. I think that he would be an excellent President in the same way he has been an excellent governor. I hope he does not run. I would rather he …

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Incompetence or Treason?

By John R. “Buck” Surdu I have often said that as a company commander I kicked people out of the Army who are better people and better citizens than more than half the people I meet every day in civilian life. I have seen commanders relieved for cause for a variety of purposes. Yet stories …

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Bed Bath and Beyond Goes Bust

John R. “Buck” Surdu Bed Bath and Beyond is contracting and closing stores. Their creditors stopped their line of credit. We never bought a lot from Bed Bath and Beyond, but we shopped there. Much of what is in our kitchen came from there. I don’t know if they have mismanaged their affairs, if they …

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Rant about Reparations

By John R. “Buck” Surdu San Francisco’s African American Reparations Committee recently recommended that the city give every black San Francisco resident $5M in reparations “not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent …

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The National Debt Ceiling

Richard Feynman famously said, “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” The monetary policies of those “experts” have driven up the national debt to astronomical levels buying votes from stupid and gullible voters. Any person with three brain cells to rub together knows that if your income is $X then you spend something …

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John Surdu: Thoughts on the Speaker Kerfuffle

John R. “Buck” Surdu In previous articles, I have been quite outspoken that there is little difference in my mind between the Demonic Democrats and the Repugnant Republicans. In particular, I predicted in at least two articles that the highly anticipated “red wave” was going to be a red trickle. Simply put, the midterms were …

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Yet Another Biden Betrayal

By John R. “Buck” Surdu On 20 December 22, Congress yet again broke faith with our allies. According to the Washington Post, Congress dropped from its $1.7 billion omnibus spending bill an amendment that would have created a pathway to residency for Afghan refugees, dimming the hopes for tens of thousands of people rescued as …

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Hooray Candace Cameron Bure

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Recently the Daily Wire called attention to an interview that Candace Cameron Bure made with the Wall Street Journal. Bure is one of several actresses and actors who have fled the increasingly woke Hallmark Channel to move to the Great American Family channel. According to the Daily Wire, When asked …

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The Red Trickle: I Told You So

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Several weeks ago, despite the growing euphoria over a predicted Red Wave, I predicted a Red Trickle. At the time, I said it was because the Republicans don’t stand for anything and weren’t offering voters anything other than more investigations and counter investigations and “those guys suck worse than us.” …

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Social Nostalgia and Triggering Millennials

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Recently, I did some online searching to see if there is a word for being nostalgic for a time that one didn’t personally experience. There is no such word, but “social nostalgia” or “cultural nostalgia” are sometimes used to describe this feeling. As our once-great, disunited states are increasingly ripped …

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The Racism of “Anti-Racism” Part 4: The Columbus Shooting, BLM, and Voter Identification as Examples of Racism

BLM

The most racist people in America are the “anti-racists.” In this installment of my series on the racism of the anti-racists, I provide three detailed examples. In parts 1 – 3 of this series, I have provided examples of how the most racist people in America are the “anti-racists,” just like the least tolerant are …

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The Racism of “Anti-Racism” Part 3: More Examples of Real Racism

In Part 1 of this series, I asserted that the most racist people are the “anti-racists.” They routinely pander to minorities during elections and then enact Leftist policies that hurt minorities and the poor. In general, the racist “anti-racists” assert that minorities are too dumb to do well in school, to meet the same standards …

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