We Don’t Know What Happened-Stop Trying To Shove Bad Policy Down Our Throats
A madman murdered people in a mall. Before we jump off a cliff, mewling, “It’s the guns,” let’s take time to get the details.
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Military Readiness-Through the Lens of Army Aviation
The Readiness of America’s Military is Under Internal Attack. Recent Accidents in Army Aviation, and Response thereto, Indicates What Plagues Our Military
The FBI Goes on a Snipe Hunt – While the Country Burns
While the FBI chases the elusive “white supremacist domestic terrorist,” it seems blind to other attacks on our society.
The Navy’s Drag Queen SpokesMAN
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough MEN stand ready to do violence on their behalf
~Unknown
The Soul of Our Nation
The 2020 notion was that we “are in a battle for the soul of the nation.” So let me ask a few questions:
Russian Recruiting Policy Demonstrates One Possible Benefit of Biden’s Military Transgender Policy
I don’t know whether I write this as snark or as a serious warning about the abject evil Democrat governance is bringing upon this great nation.
‘Decarceration’ Programs Are Deadly to Black Americans
It was two months ago that Congress, which is normally hands off but does have jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, rejected the city’s attempt to overhaul its criminal law, an attempt which would have reduced or eliminated mandatory minimums. Crime has increased in our nation’s capital, increased dramatically this year. The chart at the …
The Tragedy of the Commons, Part 3: Wicked Logic
The Tragedy of the Commons: Wicked Logic In The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actors, I discussed linear vs. spiral logic. I suggested that western logic tended to be more linear and Islamic and other cultures, perhaps more spiral. But that is a generalization based on today’s conditions. In the past, western logic tended …
State Supported Child Kidnapping
Star Chambers Coming for Your Children. Washington & Minnesota, have already legalized the kidnapping and mutilation of children without parental consent
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXV; Whatever happened to John Cougar?
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXV; Whatever happened to John Cougar? Albert Constantine Jr. blasts Joe Biden with “Cherry Bomb.”
Transurrection Part II
Part one of Montana’s Transurrection is the only accurate eyewitness account of what happened in the Montana legislature when radical leftists showed their willingness to act violently and disrupt the business of all Montanans on April 24th. In part one, I described what I witnessed outside the Capitol building and then in the House gallery. …
Tales of the Trail Boss; A Military Leadership Series
Tales of the Trail Boss is a 4-part series about that initial push into Iraq and the young folks of our armed forces who displayed great courage, leadership, ingenuity and a bit of humor along the way. It happened something like this…
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Rational Actor
The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actor This is a follow on to Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons. It specifically looks at the rationality implied in Ostrom’s 8 points and the Rational Actor/Choice, Game, and Agency theories. What happens if the rational hypothesis fails or is different across cultures or relevant ranges? I …
Minarchy and the Right to Choose
Government goons , almost always look at “right to choose” to mean “You have the right to choose as long as we approve of your choices.”
A Male Lesbian’s Take–An Ongoing Domestic Cognitive War
The America I knew as a young man, was a country in which you could grow up to be anything you wished. My how that is now truer today, than ever before, but not in a good way. Today, no matter who you are, you can grow up to be literally “anything” you wish, given …
Montana’s Transurrection An Eyewitness Account
Whenever a veteran recounts a war story from their military days they often start with the phrase, “So there I was.” Though I am retired from the military and back home in Montana there are still times when I feel the need to start a story off right. So, there I was, sitting in the …
We Are All Crash Test Dummies Now
We’re all on the bus together and will collectively experience the impact when our radical demented fool in chief drives the country over the approaching cliff.
Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons I first came across the problem (tragedy) of the commons in a political science course in grad school. We read a remarkable work by Elinor Ostrom about the problem. Her work both resonated with me and left me looking for more. I thought the problem was bigger …
It’s For The Kids!
Imagine a typical North Idaho family, Shawn and Jane Doe and their three children Mary, Mike and Becky. Shawn is the assistant manager at a local division of a national company. The Doe family is a comfortable, middle class family and happy, but money seems tight. Jane has been pestering Shawn to ask for a …
Culture Commands Series: Our Great U.S. Culture War, Pt 2b
This Part B of the second installment of a series on Our Great U.S. Culture War. American Biblical Worldview When the thirteen colonies became thirteen united states, that America was 98.2% Protestant. The Protestant denominations had their differences, but they shared a focus, allegiance, and affinity to the Holy Bible. Furthermore, “dissenting” Protestantism is a …