HOW TRUMP TAKES ADVANTAGE OF RUSSIAN WEAKNESS AND EXHAUSTION

The Russian offensive in Donbas has stalled in the last few weeks to a crawl, and in the Kursk oblast, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to expel the Ukrainian forces remains a failure.

This at the cost of up to 2,000 dead or badly wounded Russians and North Koreans a day could create a favorable situation for an inaugurated Trump opening peace negotiations with Putin.  Yet the Kremlin is signaling its full commitment to its maximalist demands of Ukraine’s capitulation (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, January 10).

This demonstrative bravado (more…)

JANUARY 20, 2025 – INDEPENDENCE DAY II

America’s Independence Day, observed annually on July 4, is a national holiday that honors the ratification of the Declaration of Independence. This pivotal document marked the founding of the United States of America and its liberation from British tyranny and oppression.

In the mid-1990s, a song with the same title was awarded Country Music Song of the Year. Performed by Martina McBride, it celebrates a woman’s liberation from her abusive husband.

What are the commonalities? Oppression and abuse. Is anyone else sensing a strong stench of these in America, what used to be a shining city on a hill?

Could (more…)

WOKE DEI + GREEN NIHILISM = DRESDEN IN CALIFORNIA

Firebombing on the Pacific

Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell.

Some 12,000-plus structures were incinerated. More than 250,000 souls have been evacuated and are in need of shelter.

No one has really taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe are blame-gaming each other to determine who was the more incompetent, which in this case translates to the most woke.

No one knows how many have died; all know the number will escalate in the next few days. The eventual (more…)

PETE HEGSETH OPENING STATEMENT

[This is the full opening statement of Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, to the Senate Armed Service Committee Confirmation Hearing today, January 14, 2-25]

Thank you Chairman Wicker, Ranking Member Reed, and all members of this Committee for the opportunity today. I am grateful for, and learned a great deal from, this “advise and consent” process. Should I be confirmed, I look forward to working with this Committee — Senators from both parties — to secure our nation.

I want to thank the former Senator from Minnesota, Norm Coleman, for his mentorship and friendship in this process. And the incoming National Security Advisor, Congressman — and more importantly—Colonel Mike Waltz, for his powerful words. I am grateful for you both.

Thank you to my (more…)

TRUMP’S GREENLAND AND PANAMA SCHEME IS HIS MOST INGENIOUS REAL ESTATE DEAL YET

You know the old adage. There are three things to remember in the real estate business: location, location, location.

And who is a better student of the rough-and-tumble realty game than Donald Trump?

That’s nearly all you need to know about the President-elect’s recent vows to take Greenland and the Panama Canal, by (wink-wink) any means necessary.

In fact, Trump is sending a message to the world and America’s enemies: We’re serious about protecting the Western Hemisphere – again.

Statesmen since before Abraham Lincoln have looked both north and south to help safeguard our nation.

America’s 5th president James (more…)

HOW PUTIN WENT FROM WEAKLING TO MONSTER AND STOLE $1 TRILLION FROM HIS OWN PEOPLE

Once, he was seen as our best hope for permanent peace between West and East. Today, he is the embodiment of evil, a monstrous dictator who threatens a nuclear holocaust that could obliterate Europe.

But when Vladimir Putin was named as successor to the drunken president Boris Yeltsin a quarter of a century ago, on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he was a virtual unknown outside Russian politics. And even inside the country, his poll approval rating was low, with less than a third of the country backing his policies.

The former KGB intelligence officer had been the shambolic superpower’s (more…)