Elon Musk helps get information out of Iran and to the rest of the world

As we have previously noted, the credentialed media have been publishing rather little on the popular uprisings in Iran. Slightly more has been coming out, but information has still been sparse. More information has been coming out over social media, though, interestingly enough, far less on Bluesky than on Twitter, at least as far as …

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The Warrior Brain is NOT a Glitch. It’s a God Given Gift.

Before the World Was Soft Civilization did not create the warrior brain. Civilization survived because of it. Long before laws, courts, or polite abstractions about peace, human beings existed in a world where violence was not exceptional—it was routine. Hunger, predators, rival tribes, and scarcity were constant pressures. The human nervous system evolved not to be calm, but to be ready.

Election Irregularities Project, Dateline Colorado: The Shameful Lawfare Persecution of Tina Peters And The Disenfranchising of Voters: Taking Stock

Election Irregularities 101: The Dems Are Left With Only Two Choices For The 2024 Election, Cheat or Kill. Biden failed, lawfare failed, Harris is going to fail. Desperate people do desperate things

The Next Pandemic Will Test More Than Our Immune Systems

By any honest accounting, the pandemic did more than disrupt daily life. It rewired cultural instincts, reshaped how Americans relate to authority, and quietly altered how dissent is treated in a society that once prized it. The damage was not limited to lost lives or lost income; it extended into trust, neighborliness, and the very idea of personal agency.

Realities of the Law

While driving your car another vehicle, intentionally or not, causes you to crash and there is no debris – physical evidence of a collision. The burden to prove it’s the other guy’s fault falls to you. In other words, injured passengers/pedestrians will claim it was your poor judgement that caused the accident.

James Boasberg – Lord of the Flies

Have you ever had a cookout, where people spend so much time shooing flies away, it looks like a gathering of the hearing impaired? The pesky little critters don’t stop the picnic, but spend the day annoying the hell out of everyone – just like Lord of the Flies Jeb Boasberg and his merry swarm of judicial resistance pests.

The Art of Making Problems Disappear Before The General Notices

I was a general’s aide-de-camp, which meant my actual job was not assisting, but intercepting stupidity before it reached flag rank. My boss lived in a world where things simply worked. Vehicles appeared complete. Schedules ran. Equipment existed. That didn’t happen by magic — it happened because several people quietly absorbed chaos so he never had to.