Trust in News Media Sinks to New Low
The news media have lost credibility at an alarming rate, and confidence that the news is being impartially reported has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history.
History
The Empire Eater — Lessons from the Graveyard of Empires, Epilogue
They called Afghanistan “The Graveyard of Empires,” and by the time the Soviets showed up, it already had a headstone collection. The Persians, the Greeks, the Mongols, and the British were all buried there in one form or another. Still, the Soviets thought they could be different. They always do.
The Empire Eater — Lessons from the Graveyard of Empires, Part III
Fast-forward another century, and the players have changed — but the mountains haven’t. After 9/11, the United States and its NATO allies, including Britain, marched into Afghanistan to root out the Taliban and rebuild the nation.
Mideast History
After World War I, the victorious allies, with the blessings of the newly formed United Nations, carved up the Ottoman Empire creating the independent nations of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel.
The Empire Eater — Lessons from the Graveyard of Empires, Part II
Part II — The Empire That Wouldn’t Quit (1878–1880, 1919) Most nations learn from pain. Empires just reload. Four decades later, London decided another Afghan “adjustment” was needed. The Russians were sniffing around again, and Britain wanted control of Kabul’s foreign policy. Cue Round Two, where British troops marched back into Afghanistan and once again …
Betwixt Christ and Country
The Left pretends following Christ as a Christian and serving America as a citizen is in conflict when it serves their purposes. They can’t comprehend opposing Islam and caring about individual Muslims at the same time.
The Empire Eater — Lessons from the Graveyard of Empires, Part I
They called it the Great Game — the 19th-century chess match between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia. Somewhere between tea time and arrogance, the British decided Afghanistan would make a lovely buffer zone between their Indian colony and the advancing Russians.
History Doesn’t Repeat — It Just Rhymes When It’s Drunk
They say history repeats itself, but that’s lazy thinking. History doesn’t repeat — it stumbles out of the bar at 2 a.m., grabs the wrong Uber, and wakes up wearing someone else’s crown, wondering why the peasants are revolting again. What really happens is that patterns emerge — and if you’re lucky (or paying attention), they’re the good kind.
The Gospel According to Malthus: How the Church of Climate Panic Rebranded an Old Religion of Fear
Two hundred years ago, a gloomy English preacher named Thomas Malthus did some math and decided the human race was doomed. People, he warned, breed like rabbits while food grows like turnips.
“No Kings” Useful Idiots Promote Assassinations
“No Kings” protesters were screaming for assassinations of Trump, Miller, Homan, etc. I wonder if the FBI or Secret Service will be contacting these haters who do not believe that Americans are allowed to vote for Trump.
Blame the Pickup: If Guns Can Be Sued, Why Not Trucks?
The Islamic State didn’t cruise into Mosul in Teslas. They rolled in behind a Toyota Hilux convoy that looked like a Jiffy Lube parade gone wrong — turbo-diesel workhorses loaded with heavy machine guns and rocket pods.
Prisoner No. 16670
The year is 1941. The place is Auschwitz. His official name is Prisoner Number 16670. But his real name is Max. Max isn’t old, but he looks ancient. Prison camp will do that to a man. He is here because he was caught sheltering 3,000 Polish refugees—half of whom were Jews.
A Republic If You Can Keep It: The Grand Compromise
When Beliefs And Opinions Get Confused With Convictions, Dialogue and Compromise Become Impossible
The Brotherhood of the Rifle: What Germany Got Right About Shooting Culture
Today, when German shooters don their old green sport jackets, they’re not just competitors. They’re descendants of the city guard. And when the Schützenkönig or Ritter (Knight) is crowned at the festival, it’s not merely a marksmanship title—it’s a symbolic knighting. It says, you have upheld the standard, you belong…
Wanted: John Adams II and Patrick Henry II
We, The People, must recruit politicians to not be politicians for a “revolutionary season” to save America. Since politics is a business, it means getting patriots in office who won’t be “business as usual” Establishment tools.
What Is Apologetics?
Every time I start my 9-month apologetics course, I begin by answering the question, “What is apologetics?” The reason I do this is that the word ‘apologetics’ can imply to some that we are apologizing for the truth, when we are not and never should.
The War That Never Was”–An alternative history grounded in the real NATO, Part II
For a decade, Europe’s generals had lived in a post-Soviet afterglow, studying maps of Kaliningrad, the Suwałki Gap, and the Carpathians. Russia was weak, its army hollow, its population declining.
Columbus Set the Oars in Motion
Why has modern America chosen to attack Columbus Day? Many schools no longer celebrate it; many states have dropped it in ignominy… or worse, they use it as a negative teaching opportunity: to trash the explorers who brought European civilization to these shores. Of course, it’s still celebrated as …
Are Repeat of Events of Oct 1945 Needed? by George Mcclellan
Upon the conclusion of World War II, the Western powers immediately set about purging Nazi Germany of all remnants of National Socialism. Nazi’s were rounded up, tried and shot all over Germany. The Nuremberg trials of October 1945 however, focused on high ranking Nazi party members and complicit military officers. The results just about defined …
If the South Had Won — and We Never Split: A Republic Reimagined
What if, just for a moment, the South’s constitutional vision had prevailed—without the war driving the Union apart—and that vision gave us more freedom, less federal tyranny, and yes, a chance at real racial healing rather than the stain of perpetual federal subjugation?