Culture

Night Witches and the Art of Terror: How Improvised Bombers Haunted the Wehrmacht After Dark

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In 1941, the Soviet Union was being dismantled at industrial speed. Entire armies vanished. Cities fell. Aircraft factories were evacuated east while German armor drove forward. There was no time for elegance. The Red Army needed pilots, aircraft, and pressure on the enemy—immediately. So they did something profoundly unromantic and brutally practical: they took civilians who could fly and turned them into combat airmen.

Trusted There. Restricted Here; Restoring Trust and Rights

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If we trust a service member overseas with a loaded rifle, real rules of engagement, and life-and-death decisions in a combat zone, it makes no sense to suddenly treat that same disciplined professional like a liability the moment they step onto a stateside installation; this policy correction acknowledges a simple truth long overdue—responsibility doesn’t evaporate at the gate. The men and women we entrust to defend the nation are trained, vetted, and held to standards far above the civilian baseline, and if we truly believe in that system, then extending reasonable trust for personal defense at home isn’t radical, it’s consistent. And if someone genuinely cannot be trusted with a firearm under controlled conditions on base, then the harder question isn’t about policy—it’s about why they’re in uniform in the first place.

Two Wings, One Bird: How We Traded a Republic for a Revenue Machine

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We like to pretend we live in a fierce two-party system. Red vs. blue. Left vs. right. Cable news gladiators screaming like it’s the Super Bowl of righteousness. But step back far enough and the illusion fades. What you actually see is one bird with two wings—and that bird doesn’t care about your values, your vote, or your virtue. It worships one thing: money.

The Seriousness of the Surge in Catholic Conversions

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As a somewhat frequent participant in Catholic discussions on Twitter — I still refuse to call it 𝕏, the dumbest rebranding of the 21st century — I’ve been seeing a ton of posts about the surge in Catholic converts. Apparently, the algorithms see what we like, and send more of the same our way!  Many …

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The Progressive Transformation of the Democrat Party, 1956–2024 Robert Conquest’s Second Law was the mechanism

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Robert Conquest’s Second Law of Politics states: “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” The corollary logic is that progressive activists, being more ideologically motivated than moderates, systematically infiltrate, outlast, and eventually dominate institutions — whether universities, media organizations, NGOs, professional associations, or political parties.

The Fog of Fear – Emergency Powers, Permanent Habits: What We Did in COVID

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By late 2020, vaccines arrived under emergency authorization. That should have been the turning point—the moment where risk became individualized again. Instead, the dial kept turning in one direction: more control, more pressure, more compliance. By September 2021, the federal government, under Joe Biden, pushed for sweeping mandates, including a requirement aimed at large employers through OSHA. It was framed as necessity. It was enforced as urgency. And it was received, in many corners, as coercion.

Girls Can’t Be Boys and Boys Can’t Be Girls, No Matter How Much the Left Don’t Like It

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The Nation is one of our oldest political commentary journals, dating from 1865, and these days it is charitably described as “progressive,” though far-left and #woke would be more accurate. They’re just another bunch who’ve fallen for the idiocy that girls can be boys and boys can be girls. The Olympics Is Repeating One of …

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Going Against The Grain: Why Democrats Are Dangerous

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The Democrat Party is no longer a legitimate political party, and it hasn’t been since at least Obama.

Since after the Civil War, or more accurately, the War Between the States, the Democrat Party has slowly evolved into a treasonous opposition. Their ‘dreams’ for the nation had departed from what the founders had in mind.

Mayday, Mayday: The Return of the American Strike Fantasy

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The roots go back to the late 19th century, when American labor was less “9 to 5” and more “sunup to collapse.” The rallying cry was simple: eight hours for work, eight for rest, eight for life. In 1886, that demand erupted into nationwide strikes, culminating in the infamous Haymarket Affair in Chicago. A bomb, gunfire, dead police, dead civilians, and a trial that still sparks debate today. It was messy, chaotic, and deeply human—exactly the kind of event that leaves a permanent scar on history.

Today’s No Kings, Pro-Iran Quislings: A Reminder of America’s Vietnam War Turncoats

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I thought I had seen the last of traitorous Americans cursing our soldiers or calling for them to be killed when the last American combat troops were pulled out of Vietnam following the 1973 Paris Peace Treaty. After the disgusting display by anti-American, pro-Iran thugs in Philadelphia and the perfidious “No Kings” protestors last weekend, it appears I was wrong.

The Mourning Scroll, Because It’s Too Early to Read In All Caps

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Coffee is ready. Pour said coffee. Check my phone. Look at emails. The first subject line attracts my attention. “YOU ARE NOT A TRUE AMERICAN IF YOU DON’T READ THIS!!!”

I want to be a true American, but for the next few minutes I’ll have to settle for being a fallacious one. Namely, because it’s a little early to be reading anything in all caps.

Good News for American Evangelical Protestants

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There’s always good news for Bible-based Evangelicals in the Good News of Lord Jesus Christ.  His Resurrection is celebrated every Sunday.  And, there’s good news in numbers, despite the gloom and doom data painting a Post-Christian America and death spiral for Western Civilization.  Bible-based Evangelical Protestants are growing – not as much as non-Believers and way less than possible, but growing.  Growing is good.

China: The New World Order They Intend—And the Life You’d Live Inside It

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Under a Chinese-led global order, you wouldn’t necessarily feel “ruled” by China in a direct sense. You would feel aligned to it. Your country’s economy would be plugged into Chinese supply chains. Your infrastructure might be financed, built, or maintained through Chinese-linked systems. Your technology stack—networks, platforms, standards—would quietly converge with theirs because it’s cheaper, faster, and already widely adopted.

TSSA: $10 Billion for Airports, $0 for Kids: America’s Backward Security Priorities

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There’s a quiet absurdity baked into modern America, and like most absurdities, we’ve lived with it so long we stopped questioning it. Every day, the federal government spends billions protecting people who fly occasionally—while leaving tens of millions of children sitting in classrooms with wildly inconsistent security. Let that sink in. We’ve normalized a system where you can’t bring a bottle of water through an airport without federal scrutiny, but your kid can walk into a school where security depends entirely on the zip code.