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As the situation in Syria continues to devolve, Russia is sending military resources to the region to protect its assets, among other things. Via The Times of Israel: A flotilla of five Russian warships laden with hundreds of troops, which is headed toward Syria, is a show...

It seems my first prediction of the year came true:  There won’t be any massive “Tea Party” rallies. Instead...

Astute Legal Insurrection readers remarked that much of the "climate change" dialog in this country seems to be directed at getting citizens to support United Nation's Agenda 21. I wanted to offer some insights on this theoretically voluntary action plan that has environmentally protective sustainable development...

Who demands purity and wants chaos? Harry Reid who refused to bring House bills to a vote in the Senate? Nope. Obama, whose Treasury Secretary took to the airwaves to proclaim that Obama "absolutely" was willing to go over the cliff if tax rates were not raised? Nope. It's...

The public tends to trust "experts" when it comes to considering science-based policies. Sadly, some of the experts have a specific agenda  to promote that is counter to reality.  A good example is Mark Lynas, a British environmentalist who was a leading force in the movement...

A couple of weeks ago, a New York based newspaper called the Journal News took it upon themselves to aggregate and publish the names and addresses of all legal gun-permit owners in the region. The backlash was swift, prompting unified outcries for the paper to take...

In a suburban neighborhood outside Atlanta, a mother exercised her fundamental American right to bear arms and protect her children from an intruder during a home invasion yesterday afternoon. A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety...

I recently shared some dialog between San Diego citizen activists regarding the roles of social and fiscal conservatism in deciding "tea party" agenda items. Author and "Manosphere" pundit Aaron Clarey (Captain Capitalism) recently offered his very independent perspective, Why Communism Killed the American Muse.  It highlights the...

I don't normally prowl the threads of Democratic Underground, but was interested to read comments regarding one of their complaints about an increase in social security withholding tax after Rush Limbaugh remarked on it today. Surprise! The author self-deleted the comment. I guess being featured on Limbaugh's...

In my Saturday Night Race Card post a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was researching a book on real estate fraud and corruption. The main characters in my narrative are a couple who look like you and me and seem perfectly lovely.  But in...

Last night's broadcast of ABC World News featured a segment in which Diane Sawyer interviewed all twenty female U.S. Senators in the newly sworn in 113th Congress. The segment touched on an array of issues, from contraception, to abortion, to who they thought would be the...