New Report: ‘Ukraine Making Big Gains Around Kyiv’ Over Last 48 Hours

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun making the case that the tide of the war is turning. It’s difficult to know if a shift has actually occurred or if he’s misrepresenting the situation so the West will keep the supply of weapons and supplies coming. In the last 24 to 48 hours, reports from both …

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Putin Calls In a Favor From the Belarusian President

Putin

Wednesday marks the 28th day of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ill-advised invasion of Ukraine. His high hopes for a quick victory have faded as the war appears to have reached a stalemate. The Russian Ministry of Defense does not reveal casualty numbers. However, for a six-hour period on Monday, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda, reported …

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Biden Democrats Playing Politics with Ukraine

The Biden Democrats are using the war to divert attention from Biden’s failures at home. Biden has not tried to mediate and push for a cease fire and settlement of the war.   Democrats have a history of playing politics with wars.   Why are the Biden Democrats now gung-ho to send weapons, money, and to get …

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So, who failed here?

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record of sentencing child pornography case offenders to below the minimum in federal sentencing guidelines looks like something that even Joe Biden wouldn’t have been stupid enough to ignore before nominating her to the Supreme Court, if he knew about it, so the obvious question becomes: who in the Administration failed …

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Reconstructing History, Part 6: Culture, History, and the Future

Reconstructing History, Part 6: Culture, History, and the Future Culture is a difficult topic. For some, any discussion of culture, especially looking at them objectively for the results they produce, is a third rail. I discussed this at length in Part 5—Does Culture Matter? of the Maskirovka series. Part 5 looks at cultural assessment. The …

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The New York Times tells us that “America Has a Free Speech Problem”, without noting that they are part of the problem

In 1971, President Richard Nixon sought a restraining order to prevent The New York Times and The Washington Post from printing more of the so-called “Pentagon Papers,” technically the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, a classified history and assessment of American policy and operations in the Vietnam war. The Times and the Post fought the injunctions …

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Bloomberg Writer Tells Us How to Fight Back Against Inflation; Spoiler: You Won’t Like Them

Bloomberg thought Americans could use some tips on how to survive in today’s inflationary environment. Instead of advising us to support Republican candidates this year, they brought in Teresa Ghilarducci, who is the Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and a board member at the Economic Policy Institute. Her suggestions run …

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New Poll Delivers Stellar News to the GOP

Midterms

In politics, a victory differential of ten points or more is considered a landslide. Depending on the snapshot you use, Republicans are up by anywhere from 11 to 13 points. The latest poll from Rasmussen Reports found that if the election were held today, 50 percent of likely voters would choose the Republican candidate, 39 …

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Tucker Carlson Upset His Show Is Called ‘Organ of Russian Disinformation’ Really??

More recently, Tucker Carlson has been more vocal about Russian disinformation, and he did so when a new set of topics for discussion in the Kremlin once again prompted Russian reporters to quote the Fox Fox host. In this case, the Kremlin used more disinformation than Tucker Carlson to spread disinformation in Moscow.