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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Little America Has a Big Heart

Last night, my spouse called out to me to come upstairs from my basement lair and watch TV with her. Normally, that is a request I might normally have dodged, but since Marquette and Baylor had just destroyed my bracket, I decided to go see what cooking show, HGTV special, or “Housewives” episode had caught …

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Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXX-It ain’t Bragg if you can do it.

Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXX; It ain’t Bragg if you can do it. Last week, in Part LXXIX, we took a trip down Memory Lane to visit the train wreck at the regional bank. This week, we return to the present crises and turn our attention to a tireless defender of law and order. …

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Education Inflation

Like many people I am guilty of helping cause education inflation. I have looked to see what education a person had in spite of the fact that I was seeking an employee with technical skills. We as an American society have pushed for everyone to not only complete high school but also to get a …

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Why Do the Mainstream Media Support Censorship?

Why Do the Mainstream Media Support Censorship? It’s a question I have struggled with since it began to happen during the Obama administration. I watched the media erect a shield around President Obama to protect him from tough questions that might embarrass his administration. Then, during the 2020 presidential election, the media recreated that media …

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It is not your imagination; Your government hates you.

Over the weekend I watched a Netflix documentary titled “How to Fix a Drug Scandal.” It covers a period from 2013-2018 for the discovery and “investigation” into two Massachusetts State Crime lab chemists. One was relatively straight forward, Annie Dookhan who was just making up results in the lab in the eastern half of the …

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Protect and Defend

The Oath of Office for the President in Article 2, Sec 1, US Constitution reads: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The part we …

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