Donald J. Claxton | Founder of the @Ameriquins

The @Ameriquins President's Day Video -- good stuff here. youtu.be/g3tDVJXSfCk

@JonathanTurley Democrat. Not democratic.

Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just criticized Trump for sending in ICE to try to relieve the bottleneck at airports caused by the shutdown. He told CNN's Dana Bash that ICE may "brutalize or in some instances, kill" people at airports...

I had to put my 12 yo Great Pyrenees down two weeks ago. She couldn’t walk anymore. It’s still killing me that she’s gone. Best dog that ever owned me. I miss you A. Maycee Grace. But you’re not in pain now.

@MrPitbull07 @Guitarz14188266 Who’s the best pilot you ever saw?!?!

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

@TheDuranReal Cry babies, cry! Harder!

Trump compares Iran strike to Pearl Harbor. Japanese PM sitting there like she accidentally walked into a bad history class. Diplomacy has officially left the building. bbc.com/news/videos/cx…

@SenRandPaul is about to be on @FoxNews. All he needs to say is that he's going to do is damned job and vote for the SAVE AMERICA ACT. Period. Don't need anymore of his or @LeaderThune's continuous bullshit. I'm so done with these RINOs.

@VigilantFox Hopefully he, et al will be locked up before that comes to be.

Democrat JB Pritzker reveals Democrats’ plan for ‘Project 2029’ and how Democrats aim to jail Trump administration officials once they are in power: Lulu Garcia-Navarro: “What is a project 2029 agenda look like for you?” JB Pritzker: “I'll just say a couple of things that I think are absolutely necessary. One is we've got to restore the rule of law, and that means holding people accountable who've broken the law. I’m talking about in this administration when we get a new one. The people in this administration who broken the law and federal agents who broken the law need to be held accountable. LGN: “And that means criminally prosecuted?” JB: “Criminally prosecuted, civilly prosecuted, whatever it is that we can do. Right? It may be that you can't criminally prosecute somebody, but that you can go after them civilly.”

@EricLDaugh I have Thune fatigue.

🚨 JUST IN: Senate Leader John Thune says NO, he does NOT have the votes for a talking filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act — the only way without 60 "We don't even have 51 votes for that." x.com/i/status/20340… "People don't like to hear this...the talking filibuster, [we] can't find an example in modern history where a piece of legislation passed via the talking filibuster." KEEP PUSHING, DO NOT give up!

I don't know who I want to hear from less, @LeaderJohnThune, @BretBaier or @ChadPergram and their droning stream of negativity. Thune's had one job and he's screwed the pooch time and again. @realDonaldTrump, why do you tolerate this?

@Guns_Gadgets He'd hear, "Alla Smith & Wesson."

🤔This guy charges at you wielding a knife — how do you respond?

@MCCCANM Lack of formation proficiency? Trying to do too many things in war time? It happens. It’s war time.

That’s about the top third of the tail gone. A little lower & they would have lost the rudder. It was not an Air Refueling mishap. It was not hostile or friendly fire…this is not shrapnel damage. From what I understand, it was a near head-on mid air collision. Allegedly, a third tanker was around 10 miles behind this one & was just able to avoid being hit, too. At a closure rate of 1,000 mph, the third tanker would have around 40 seconds to maneuver away from the doomed jet after seeing the collision. Just because the tail says Beale on it does not mean the crew is from Beale AFB. Crews will get assigned any jet available. Mid-air collisions are a nasty threat. I don’t know the cause and only an investigation will tell us that.

@ThePatriotOasis How in the hell do two KC-135s collide mid-air? Lack of formation proficiency? Trying to do too many things in war time? Only other time something similar happened was in 1963. Mistakes happen in war time flying, but jeez.

🔥🚨 BREAKING: Pentagon reveals 4 U.S. Service members were killed in a mid-air collision between two KC-135 refueling aircraft. Rescue efforts are continuing. The crash is under investigation, and the loss of the aircraft was “not due to hostile or friendly fire.”

@bennyjohnson This is just dumb. They're going to fly all that way with pixie dust or what?!? Sneak them close enough to the US coast on Chinese cargo ships and then launch? Come on....

FBI has warned some California police departments that Iran is looking at possibly launching drone attacks at the West Coast as retaliation, according to an alert received and reviewed by ABC News.

@PsyGuy007 I'm sure King Charles is going to fix it all tonight with his strongly-, eh weakly-worded speech defending his puss of a PM.

🇬🇧 Police officer RIPS a Union Jack flag from a 16-year-olds hand’s in England, because it was offending the migrants.. England might actually be cooked.

@EricLDaugh The fire department watching the police station....

🚨 EPIC! Sailors are barbecuing while watching the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN launch and recover strike packages in the Iran conflict Pure USA power on full display. Everyone wants to watch! 🇺🇸

@nicksortor @LFeighAmerica Don’t know why @FoxNews doesn’t know to address Lt colonels as “Colenol.” Idiot @HARRISFAULKNER doesn’t even get it right and her dad was one!! Nuts.

🚨 NOW: President Trump and VP JD Vance stand by and salute as each casket carrying one of our six fallen service members is taken off the plane at Dover Air Force Base Also attending the dignified transfer alongside the Gold Star Families are: - First Lady Melania Trump - Second Lady Usha Vance - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth - Attorney General Pam Bondi - White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles - Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (DNI) - Special Envoy Steve Witkoff - Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll - Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine

@LangmanVince Someone just needs they' ass whooped.

Democratic scholarship prank 😂🤣

@ThoNg676733 Olivia Newton Yum Yum.

Absolutely amazing!!!! I'm completely smitten!!!! The chemistry between the two of them is incredible!!!! 😍

@stuey_beef Right... This is The Crown, Season 3, Ep 3 or 4.... It'll require resurrecting Prince Margaret to fix the mess these blokes have caused.

Reports suggest the King and Queen could visit the US to help repair relations with Donald Trump. In other words: The Prime Minister damages the special relationship… …and the Royal Family are expected to fix it. That’s quite something.

@1Nicdar *click-click-click* Gerald here. Ricky wasn’t kidnapped. He was contracted. Phase Two begins Tuesday. *whistle*

@BigFish3000 @BuzzPatterson, you gotta be tough to fly the heavies. Dad was one of the most combat experienced B-52 IPs for near two decades after Nam. Here's his 644th Bomb Squadron photo circa 1990....

Amazed that we have retrofit the B52 and it’s still in service today after 75 years. What a beast.