StevenWMosher

NEW - Japan will deploy approximately 1,000 combat troops to the Philippines for the 2026 Balikatan exercises, marking the first time since 1945 that Japanese combat forces have set foot on Philippine soil — PNA

There's a rule in conservative politics that a man is rarely to the right of his wife. Joe Kent lost his first wife in war and remarried a woman who now works for a far-left anti-Israel, pro-Iran website. Kent should have never been appointed to anything in the Trump admin.

Taiwan 🇹🇼 President Lai Ching-te: "Japan colonized Taiwan to promote the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Kuomintang government came to Taiwan for the same reason—it was nothing more than a stepping stone for a counterattack on the mainland. In particular, the way the Taiwanese people were treated after the Kuomintang government arrived in Taiwan was even worse than under Japanese colonial rule." Many Taiwanese grew up hearing horror stories from their grandparents about the abusive rule of the Chinese refugees during the White Terror era. Martial law’s 38-year duration fostered enduring distrust and PTSD among Taiwanese regarding their attitudes towards the Chinese from the mainland. Most favored Japanese colonial rule over Chinese refugee rule, partly due to the education and structure they received during that period. This explains Taiwan’s fondness for Japan and the Japanese influence on Taiwanese culture that still remind today, before the force assimilation by the KMT refugees.

Paul Ehrlich has died, but his pernicious legacy rolls on and on. In an article, I look at how the organization he founded, Population Connection, is active in schools nationwide, scaring generations of children into having fewer children with bogus fears of overpopulation.

“Premature,” lol. The abject refusal to just admit this guy was completely wrong is one of the funnier Boomer-coded traits.

🚨 JUST IN: In a jaw-dropping twist, China's Foreign Ministry has publicly condemned Iran's missile and drone barrages on Gulf nations, calling them "unacceptable attacks on civilians and non-military targets" and demanding an "immediate ceasefire."

When I was the letters editor at The Washington Post, it was consistently shocking to me how many letters we got suggesting it would be a good thing for the human race to just go extinct.