Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 2: Interagency

Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 2: Interagency “The evolution of the interagency process parallels Americas [sic] purposeful adaptation to changing global realities of the last five decades. But it is not an orderly evolution because of serious structural and cultural impediments, such as discontinuities from one administration to another and poor institutional memory.” Gabriel …

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The Problem Is Not Mass Incarceration; the Problem Is That Not Enough People Are Incarcerated, For Not a Long Enough Time!

Yes, I’ve spent a rather significant amount of bandwidth reporting on the unchecked crime in Philadelphia, the growth of which many, including me, have attributed to the lax-on-crime policies of the George Soros sponsored, police-hating and criminal loving defense lawyer now ‘serving’ as the city’s chief prosecutor, but it isn’t just the City of Brotherly …

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Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 1: Deterrence

Deterrence and the Interagency Process, Part 1: Deterrence I came across an interesting article on LinkedIn on deterrence and how the military should be in control of it. I started a comment and midway through; I opened another browser tab to a quick search. When I got back to LinkedIn, my comments and the original …

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America’s decline follows a familiar arc: ‘gradually, then suddenly’

You’ve likely never heard of Scottish mathematician John Napier, but his invention of logarithms in 1614 revolutionized the scientific world by making complicated calculations a thing of the past.  In a recent essay, Simon Black, the founder of financial/political website Sovereign Man, discussed Napier’s concept of logarithmic decay, which he noted “models many real world …

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Small Town Life and Values: The Latest Target of the Woke Mob

Having grown up in two small Kansas towns, I guess I should be distraught and maybe remorseful. Why? Because when an award-winning Country-Western singer writes a song about life and values in America’s ubiquitous small towns and is immediately attacked and canceled, he must have done something wrong, right? Wrong! Actually, all Jason Aldean did …

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Editorial Cartoonists Gobsmacked by Reality

Would it be wrong of me to retort, “Learn to code“? Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher, coined the phrase “the dismal science” to refer to economics in the 19th century, and for the print newspaper industry in the United States, economics has been a very dismal science. Editorial cartoonists’ firings point to …

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The House GOP Investigations Matter

Few saw it coming. News of the collapse of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal sent shockwaves throughout Washington on Wednesday. U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika’s refusal to sign off on the plea agreement was the worst possible outcome for the Biden family, but it was a great outcome for the rule of law in America. …

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Climate Change Hoax Will Destroy Western Civilization

  “97% of scientists agree with whoever is funding them.” Anonymous   What does it mean when entire governments of major Western powers transform themselves, in unison, mind you, from legitimate, responsible governments to misbegotten, autocratic, bastardized versions of what they once were?  Is there some centralized power emerging that is dictating new policy?  Is …

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