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Eighty-one years ago yesterday, the Western Allies launched their long-awaited ground invasion of Normandy, opening a third front in the war against Nazi Germany. It wasn’t subtle or unexpected, but the specifics were nebulous- and masterfully protected by a massive counter-intelligence and subterfuge undertaking. D-Day was a triumph of courage, of arms, and of logistics.…

Today, the Ukrainians launched “Operation Spiderweb”, the culmination of eighteen months of planning, setup and staging of what appears to have been a relatively modest quantity of hardware and a fairly small number of covert operatives. Cargo trucks, hauling trailers of one-way suicide drones and fused to detonate after their launch or upon tampering, were…

Just a quick little venture through Gemini’s VEO2 image generation. First prompt: “An anime version of Alabama’s 40 Hour Week video” Not going to lie, this is awesome. You know what? If it’s Japanese work ethic and quality management, American grit and resources, and masculine steel, I’m a billion percent in on it.

Today, President Trump celebrated the recently-announced “merger” (read: buyout) of the beleaguered U.S. Steel Corporation by Nippon Steel, its Japanese competitor. If we ignore the ignominious and prolonged, multi-decade failures of national policy, capitalist greed and market forces that strangled U.S. Steel, one could even be convinced that federal intervention and facilitated partnership with a…

Today is (hypothetically) a “holiday”, and is practically viewed as the ‘official’ start of summer, but it’s a holiday with a bit of a more somber purpose- it is supposed to be be about enjoying what’s good about our society and culture while remembering the sacrifices that made this society possible. At least, that’s the…

https://www.foxnews.com/media/david-hogg-clashes-irate-james-carville-over-democratic-primary-plan-calls-him-win-elections James Carville, aging “centrist” Democrat strategist, vs David Hogg, one of the “new-line” trendy uber-liberal culture warriors. Carville is somewhat of an elder statesman within the Party, having helped craft policy and successful electoral campaigns with Clinton, Obama and Biden and having a respected voice within the DNC. Hogg, known for his survival of…

For the past several weeks, one of the many shitshows developing across the Trump Administration is his weird, self-imposed war against the Ivy League- specifically, Harvard and Columbia University. Whereas Columbia knuckled under when federal funding was withheld, Harvard drew a hard line and refused Trump’s demands, to much applause from the left and more…

Today, we went to the range. It’s a private outdoor range, with a 100-yard rifle range, a 10-yard pistol range and a 10- and 30-yard general range. It’s a fun place, one where I like to go with friends to socialize, train and make holes in paper targets. Train, you ask? Of course. Safe, proficient…

As I type this, 250 years ago, Paul Revere was starting his famed ride to alert the Minutemen of the Massachusetts Colony to the pending incursion by the perfidious Redcoats of the British Army on their long-anticipated mission to seize arms and ammunition of the Colonial militia. These Regular Army forces were the direct embodiment…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s been hard to miss the ongoing debacle that is President Trump’s DOGE. In between storming government and quasi-governmental agencies , firing entire staffs and slashing through both specific departments and the Federal workforce as a whole, including specialized and highly-technical centers like the NOAA Radar Operations Center…