The Launchpad

The Launch Pad

  • The Wrong New Democrats

    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…

  • Gun Control

    You’d think the Democratic Party would learn. After getting shellacked at the ballot box in 2022 and 2024 and whiffing a highly consequential election by “nominating” the ultimate protected hire, Democratic Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has picked up Don Quixote’s lance and gone for his latest tilt at the windmill…gun control. So, first, let’s be…

  • H.R. 867

    There’s a lot of chaos that came up over the weekend, and in any ordinary circumstance, I’d be chewing through some easy fodder like Trump’s unhinged “100% tariff on foreign films to SAVE HOLLYWOOD” or re-prisoning Alcatraz Island, but there’s more important things happening under the surface and they don’t involve the White House at…

  • Harvard

    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…

  • Range Day

    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…

  • Anniversaries

    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…

  • Malmedy, My Lai, Rafah…

    War is nothing new to humanity. War is brutal and violent and gory and is prone to excess in all fields; and civilians always suffer. Romans raped the women of Carthage, Goths slaughtered Roman children, the Celts habitually tortured captives, the Aztecs spent prisoners-of-war to make sure the sun would continue to rise. Americans are…

  • DOGE and Consequences

    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…

  • “No”

    Last Friday (3/28/2025), Vice-President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha travelled to Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule AFB) in northern Greenland as part of a truncated tour to the Danish territory that had initially included a day in the capital city of Nuuk and cultural episodes. This was initially billed as a friendly visit to…

  • Pure, Expected Incompetence

    Two months. That’s all it took for my prediction about Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, Stephen Miller and the second Trump administration to be proven right. Even in a quartet of fortnights best described as a hurricane of buffoonery and self-inflicted wounds, Monday 3/24/25 stands out. Signalgate is quite possibly the stupidest own-goal of…

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