ANYONE SEEN WHAT’S HAPPENING AT DIEGO GARCIA LATELY?
Guest Author
April 1, 2025
DC is abuzz with a ton of Trump-hating journalists and politicians all of a sudden learning that national security is a thing about which to be concerned.
The Beltway has been seizing and pouncing on a story that they believe is an opening to attack Donald Trump, or at least slow down his pace of progress in the first couple of months by slinging mud at his cabinet and senior advisors.
The story doesn’t interest me in the slightest. It’s not hard to see the motivation of those now calling for resignations and firings. They’re exploiting a mistake in order (more…)
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on January 6, 2004. Facts are slippery things, especially when they are inconvenient. Ibn Warraq continues to speak out and publish the inconvenient truths of Islam under his pen name (which means “son of a papermaker”). It is a name that dissident authors have used throughout the history of Islam, who hide in fear for their lives. In 2007 Douglas Murray described Ibn Warraq as one who “refuses to accept the idea that all cultures are equal. Were Ibn Warraq to live in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, he would not be able to write. Or if he did, he would not be allowed to live.” The culture of Allah is a culture of death.]
This is the fortress town of Shatili in an extremely remote Caucasus region in Georgia called Khevsureti. It was built by the Crusaders 1,000 years ago. The Khevsur people who live here trace their ancestry back to these Crusaders and until the 1930s still wore chain mail in feud-battles with other towns. I took this picture in 1991.
We’re three days into what the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the mainstream press are trying to turn into a “scandal” — the accidental inclusion of Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg in a chat about the Trump administration’s operations against the Houthis on the texting app Signal.
There are (at least) two major qualities from our ancient past that cause us considerable trouble.
Pity poor John Roberts. No, he’s not corrupt or compromised.
The United States’ military isn’t often outnumbered by a foreign nation’s military power, nut it is when it comes to a naval fleet.
