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Friday, April 17, 2026

President Donald Trump is nominating a former Coast Guard officer and public health official to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. read more


Sunday, April 12, 2026

A Tennessee county school board voted unanimously Wednesday to censure a member who told a student, "God, you're hot" at a public board meeting last week. read more


Wednesday, April 01, 2026

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Monday, March 30, 2026

Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. read more


Thursday, March 26, 2026

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said on Wednesday she walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran and then warned against the U.S. sending troops into Iran. read more


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I had a friend regurgitate Trump's claim that this "war" is the largest display of complex, multi-force military action "in history."

He got pissed when I laughed and pointed out Normandy. He still didn't believe me after I explained the full scale of that invasion to him.

He also got pissed when I said this war is showing Trump to be a complete clown, that our leadership is rudderless with no clear strategy to decipher and that it's analogous to revealing the man behind the curtain a la Russia/Ukraine. We've showed our ass and have revealed that we're fighting yesterday's war with yesterday's tactics. Meanwhile, Ukraine has showed us exactly what we should have needed to know about how this war would go down - cheap small size quantity over grand large-scale quality.

He got even more pissed and started ranting on how could I think we're "losing" (his word, not mine) this war. It didn't matter when I pointed out that despite our using huge numbers of high precision, multi-million-dollar interceptors we still lost multiple multi-billion-dollar radar installations and took massive damage to multiple bases across the region from lawn mower engine-powered cheap drones and had absolutely zero strategy to counter that nor to counter the obvious first move of closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Him: "But what do you mean we don't have a strategy? It didn't take any strategy to have stealth bombers take off from Missouri, bomb the nuke sites and return to Missouri??!?!"

Me: "That certainly took planning, but that's not strategy."

Him: "How is it not?!?!?! You're being ridiculous, dude..."

It was a pointless conversation. The US military has been fetishized for so long based on shallow expectations from bombing goat herders with high tech planes and curated clips of SOF guys decked out with the latest gear killing a few guys in a remote mud hut that people think dropping bombs is strategy and that a tally of targets successfully bombed is proof of "winning."

More proof of "winning"?

Him: "We took out their entire leadership!"

Me: "And new leadership immediately stepped into their places and continue to prosecute an effective slow strangulation of the global economy."

Him: "We've killed many of the new ones too! How can you say we're not winning?!?!"

Me: "We learned over 50 years ago in Vietnam that body counts aren't effective measures of winning and we're seeing it here as well as evidenced by the regime in Iran still in place."

Him: "Whatever, dude..."

F*&^ing pointless.

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