David Dowling

Senator Mitch McConnell has now been hospitalized for three weeks. The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated, especially given that his wife, Elaine Chao, appeared in China just days after his hospitalization to meet with high-ranking Chinese officials. The question now is about national security: if Senator McConnell has been unable to independently perform his duties, what safeguards exist to ensure classified intelligence briefings, defense appropriations information, or other sensitive congressional matters could not be accessed, discussed, or shared by individuals operating behind the scenes? And given the timing of Chao’s meeting with China’s vice president, what exactly was discussed?

One thing you need to understand about senior generals is that many of them are effectively socialist. Think about it. They don’t have the market discipline to require them to be productive. What they produce is pleasing their senior officers, therefore, rising in rank. There’s no bottom line because they have an endless supply of money. Do you think any corporation would keep CEOs who didn’t win a war for 30 years? But look at the Pentagon. Look at the generals who are complaining. That’s them. Now, reserve generals are a little different because they actually have to operate in the real world as civilians. I had generals who were corporate CEOs. And they were awesome. Still, if you are a senior general, you have spent 30 years in a government command environment. When you don’t like something, you give a command to change it. That’s how they think problems get solved. They don’t understand capitalism or entrepreneurialism – it’s against everything they’ve ever worked for. They want a rigid hierarchy with themselves at the top, making all the decisions. That’s why they’re inevitably for Democrats and such policies as gun control. They also protect the club. And that means rejecting any kind of accountability. You can do that when you’re in a rigid hierarchy. Why do you think no one ever got fired for the Kabul disaster? And why do you think they are so very upset that Pete Hegseth is picking his generals under his own criteria and not theirs? You have no idea how it grates upon them that a major is their boss. The last thing they’ll do is look in the mirror and ask why. That’s because they never had to look in the mirror to ask why before now. Some of them can actually fight – certainly not all of them, as the disasters of the last 30 years have shown – but on any other subject, their views are not only wrong, but actively wrong. They have a child’s view of politics and civilian life. They want to govern by tantrum. But here’s their problem – we civilians are not in their chain of command.

“I hope that people, on that issue, speak up,” Thune told us re: the filibuster/SAVE Act. “Because I’m not saying anything that isn’t a view that wouldn’t be shared or articulated by a lot of my colleagues… It’s always helpful if others would speak up, and it’s not just me.”

The Trump administration doesn't mind using DEI to elevate incompetent people so long as the "journalist" spreading conspiratorial nonsense is on their side politically. Incredibly competent journalists should be rewarded for their competence, not the favor they show the government.

The Pope cites Lebanon as an example of peaceful “coexistence” between Christians and Muslims. Fun fact: Lebanon was literally created to be a homeland for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. And it was for a few decades. The moment Muslim invaders thought they had the numbers, they started a civil war that lasted 15 years because they didn’t want to live with the same Christians who made them part of the country. Thousands of Christians were massacred, Muslims became the majority, Hezbollah took over, and the country hasn’t known peace ever since. Lebanon is the first and ultimate example that coexistence between Christians and Muslims is quite literally impossible. It’s mind-blowing that anyone would use it as an example of coexistence, let alone the Pope.

The Swalwell saga perfectly shows how politics really works in America. They’ve had this dirt on him for years and sat on it until he stepped out of line. It explains why no matter who you vote for, you get the same results. One nation under blackmail.

The left simply cannot comprehend a black man or a woman accomplishing something without the system being artificially rigged for them.

Is there any point to doing X Articles? Seems like no one wants to read them? A waste of time?

OK, since it appears that today is the day to discuss weird cultural differences between Japan and the USA, may I strongly recommend to all of my military history nerd followers that you watch “Girls und Panzer”? It’s anime from Japan. You can find it on Amazon Prime. Bear with me while I explain the insane premise. It’s about Japanese all-girls schools that engage in the sport of “tankery.” These schoolgirls ride around in historically accurate, WWII-era armored fighting vehicles and engage in active combat that appears to include actual HEAT and sabot rounds, except when there is a hit nobody gets hurt and a little white flag pops out of the dead tank. So there is this big tankery tournament. But here’s where it gets even weirder: each school has the vehicles, resources, tactics and uniforms of a WWII combatant. So the US-style school has wayyyyy more logistics than anybody else, the Soviet school goes roaring across the steppes (see the video one comment post below) and the German school has the best tanks that break down a lot. Also the British school takes war breaks to drink tea. Why would I recommend such a silly concept? Because whoever did it went to a fanatical level of detail on the vehicles themselves and the associated tactics and employment, as well as very accurate propaganda themes from the era. It’s so incongruous—highly accurate military history and Japanese schoolgirl anime. And I love incongruity in entertainment. It’s so silly, but in a weirdly addictive way. And I don't even watch anime.