Reforming The ODNI And The National Intelligence Community: A Strategic Imperative For The 21st Century Part 2
In Order To Fix A Problem We Have To Acknowledge It And Also Figure Out How It Came To Be
U.S. News/Policy
Trumping the media; Deep state can no longer use tax money to pay off media
Thanks to DOGE, I learned the media’s coverage of Trump’s two presidencies was not based on talking points but on marching orders from the deep state.
The Roaches are Running for Cover from the Exterminator-in-Chief
During my career as a foreign correspondent, I spent a lot of time in what could only be called roach hotels. Time and again, I would turn on the room or bathroom lights and watch as scores of cockroaches skittered into cracks and drains.
More Tariffs – Less Taxes. And Sell Lots of Government’s Stuff. Please.
Our nation was once SO much better governed than it is now. In this regard, our errors have been to time and again hand over more and more of our freedom to ever-expanding governments at all levels.
Dear President Trump and Mr. Elon Musk
The ever-lovely Miss Alma, from Tupelo Brake has some pithy words for President Trump, Elon Musk and their war on waste.
Ukraine’s Lost Weapons: A Disaster Even Worse Than Iran-Contra—Thanks, Biden!
Well, well, well—who could have guessed that dumping billions of dollars in military aid into a warzone with zero accountability would lead to, oh I don’t know, those weapons falling into the hands of criminals?
The Left’s War on Trump 2.0: A Descent into Madness
The Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s return has reached the point of madness. Already reeling from the deluge of executive orders reversing the far-Left policies of the Biden administration, they lost all control when the United States Agency for International Development was exposed as little more than a global slush fund for progressive causes …
U.S. Service Academies: Reform or Performance Politics?
Changing the whole institution requires systemic transformation. First, change behavior. Over time, hearts and minds can be changed. Can. Consider the U.S. Service Academies.
What Trump did THIS weekend; Elon Musk must have read Matthew Lesko’s book on free government money
They call Donald Trump’s actions in his first three weeks back in the Oval Office shock and awe, but I call it shock and bwa-ha-ha.
A “Cure” For Manpower Shortages?
All the armed forces have manpower issues. Adding people with their own issues is not the solution.
Trump’s Executive Order Seeks to Restore Second Amendment Protections
On February 7, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting Second Amendment Rights,” directing a comprehensive review of federal actions taken from January 2021 through January 2025 that may have infringed upon Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Live By The Sword, Die By The Sword
Trump’s flourish of executive orders to undo the damage done by “the big guy” and others over the years has started, but there is also a dangerous precedent set over the years that must be fixed
Stamping Out Anti-Christian Bias Is Going To Involve Goring Some “Sacred” Liberal New Religion Belief “Oxes”
Reclaiming The Right To Religious Freedom In America
Highlights of the week Not government funded.
Once again the rapier wit of Don Surber looks at last week’s significant events and provides his own, somewhat ribald interpretation, while enjoying our experience of a new day in America
Either You’re Serious, Or You’re Not
Many people are living in unbearable circumstances and have been for a very long time and things have not gotten any better for them.
Former Penn women’s swim team members are finally speaking out
It seems now that some of the University’s women’s swim team members have shed their anonymity to file this lawsuit. Perhaps the election of more sensible politicians has something to do with that.
Hey waiter, this whine tastes like liberal tears
Trump dumped DEI and racist preferences in employment into the federal dumpster of history. The reaction from the left was what you should expect.
USAID: America’s ATM for the World’s Grifters by John Geraci
Ah, USAID—the benevolent Uncle Moneybags of international development, generously sprinkling American tax dollars across the globe like confetti at a New Year’s Eve party.
STARBASE Shutdown: The $60M Budget Cut That Ruffled Feathers (Part Two)
The truth is, if STARBASE had any real educational value beyond its DoD connections, private industry or the Department of Education could have funded it.
USAID: America’s Most Generous Slush Fund for Rogue Warlords
For decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been America’s feel-good, do-good, taxpayer-funded piggy bank—or at least, that’s what they want you to believe.