How Our Adversaries Think.

Americans need to see what our adversaries read, watch and absorb so we can best understand how to best engage them. A factory worker in Moscow is reading this morning’s Pravda. A Harvard professor is reading the same newspaper. The difference? The man in Moscow knows he’s getting lied to. A cartoon published circa 1990, …

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Is a Parental Bill of Rights a Good Idea?

by John R. “Buck” Surdu Recently House Republicans passed the “Parental Bill of Rights” bill by a narrow 213-208 vote. The Hill reported, The measure would require schools to publish their curricula publicly, mandate that parents be allowed to meet with their children’s teachers and make schools give information to parents when violence occurs on school grounds. It …

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The Big AI Elephant In The Room

“It should come as no surprise with the maturity of image creation, the explosion of writing tools, and the massive rise of video and audio tools that are driving the growth of generative AI at such a rapid pace, the government and the public at large would start to consider who will directly and legally benefit from the outcome production of these new and developing technologies.” So why is no one talking about it?

Lessons Not Learned: Iraq, Ukraine, and US Strategy

Lessons Not Learned: Ukraine, Iraq, and US Military Strategy The twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War arrived without fanfare in US political circles. It is not politically expedient to draw attention to the ambiguous-at-best results achieved there after the sacrifice of 4,500 US military personnel with many more wounded and suffering from psychological trauma, and …

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Reality In the Way…Again

I am neither a psychologist nor have had any education in that direction, but maybe that is a good thing.  Through over-analyzing anything, one can twist a simple problem into mental blankness and in the process, refuse to see reality.  Through many years of life’s experiences and using the rarest of rarities, common sense, I …

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When You Don’t Tell the Truth At First, Don’t Be Surprised If Fewer People Believe You Later

My good friend William Teach of The Pirate’s Cove noted that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, sitting in full on an appeal of a ruling by a three-judge panel, blocked President Biden’s mandate that all federal employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19. Mr Teach’s money line: And, even with the …

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