For years, I slept fitfully after a “friend” told me that it wasn’t the noisy mosquitos buzzing in my ears at night that were a problem. Instead, it was the female mosquitos that made no noise at all but laid eggs in your ears at night. That image wrecked my sleep until the Internet helped…
Movie Suggestion: Pawn Sacrifice
This movie is a semi-biopic of the life of chess great Bobby Fischer. The film goes a long way in showing the old adage that Genius (almost always to a man) courts madness to some degree. Fischer is a great example of a man (like Isaac Newton) who was extremely creative and intelligent in one…
The Oregon Militia Standoff Explained
Since my initial post on Patriot Convoy 2016, It appears things in Oregon are heating up..here is a recap from Vox.-SF A militia protesting the “tyranny” of the federal government seized the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday and, in a video posted to Facebook, called on “patriots” from all…
Bad-Ass of the Week: He Escaped an ISIS Prison and Has a Message for BHO
With all the publicity ISIS gets, there aren’t many first-hand accounts from people they’ve taken prisoner escaping and living to tell the tale. Through Hamody Jasim, a former Sergeant Major in the Iraqi military, Independent Journal was given a rare opportunity. Jasim, the author of the Terrorist Whisperer, connected us with Master Sergeant Karam Saad, whom he served with during the…
There is No Such Thing as “Regulating Rights”
By John Farnam “Rights?” When someone says, in so many words, “I have a ‘right’ to never have anything bad happen to me,” they are displaying a level of ignorance and self-delusion that ultimately makes for them a short, and unhappy, life. And, they are unfit for citizenship in a free Republic! Our Constitution provides…
Crusader Corner: The Case of the Bacon Bandits and The Continued Mis-Appropriation of “Counter-Terrorism” Resources
FBI offers $5,000 reward after bacon found at Las Vegas mosque What is noteworthy about this story is not — horror of horrors! — the bacon at the mosque. That is obnoxious and stupid, but that’s all it is: no one was hurt, no one was intimidated, no one was threatened. What is noteworthy here…
The Double-Edged Sword that is Open Carry
(Originally Published in March) Texas just got one step closer to joining the 13 other states in which Open Carry is Legal (with permit) with the Texas Senate Republicans passing the measure 20-11 in a straight party vote. Read that story HERE. As a PROUD Texan, I know many of you out there would…
WW2 History: The Most Amazing Lie in History
How a chicken farmer, a pair of princesses, and 27 imaginary spies helped the Allies win World War II This story originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Mental Floss Magazine. In the weeks leading up to D-day, Allied commanders had their best game faces on. “This operation is not being planned with any…
Ankara’s Hidden Hand: Turkish Covert Ops Then and Now
To put it mildly, Turkey has been substantially involved in Syria since the eruption of the Arab Spring in 2011. After Turkish F-16s recently downed a Su-24 Russian tactical bomber over the region where Turkmen anti-Assad groups are based, Turkish President Erdogan tacitly confirmed Turkey’s covert support for Syrian rebels fighting against Damascus, stating that “anyone…
Cartel Corner #42: The Search for “El Chapo” Intensifies… (Yeah Right)
Mexican security forces descended on a region in the country’s northwest in October as part of a new phase in the search for fugitive Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. And now there are disturbing new details about that intensifying manhunt. Guzmán remains free, but a recent report from Vice News details allegations that,…