Author: CBD

The United States Constitution is clear. The President is the commander in chief of the armed forces. The framers of the Constitution knew what they were doing…ensuring civilian control of our military, which meant ultimately that the people controlled the military. Article II, Section 2, Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of…

America and The United Kingdom (and its convicts) have been military and social allies since before World War I. Although we are separated by oceans and a common language, the relationship has been a powerful one. While our relationship with France has been benign for far longer…since the Revolutionary War!, France has occasionally acted at…

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. — Isoroku Yamamoto* In just a few generations, American Exceptionalism has morphed from the military and industrial juggernaut that fought a two-front war across oceans, supplied its allies with war materiel, and then rebuilt the losers…

I watched a 9/11 documentary yesterday that focused on the Bush administration. It was mostly personal remembrances of the hours and days following the attacks, with Bush, Cheney, Condelezza Rice, Karl Rove and many other administration officials speaking on both personal and professional topics. As I watched, I grew angrier and more disgusted by the…

He’s dumb. He’s nasty. He’s inarticulate. He’s a liar. And now he is in the middle stages of dementia. But none of this is new, except maybe the senility. Joe Biden has always been a dim bulb, whose accomplishments as a senator were conspicuously thin, but whose self-aggrandizement has always been impressive. Clearly the good…

The academy was one of the first targets of the Long March, and nowhere else has it been so wildly successful. It embraces every crackpot pseudo-scientific nonsense if there is a possibility that its acceptance will further fracture the country into pressure groups and angry minorities and all of the divisions that will hasten the…

During the cold war there were reliably stupid pronouncements emerging from Europe almost daily about how America was a war-mongering danger to the world and we should all just disarm and the unicorns would come out of hiding and all would be peaceful and beautiful. But it was pretty obvious that those doing the blathering…

Before you set your hair on fire; yes, the author is a leftist. He also is reflexively anti-Trump, sounds like an anti-Semite, comes off as a smug academic, but also has some genuinely interesting interpretations of the current Woke malaise we find ourselves enduring. Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law People have generally misunderstood…

Our once mighty armed forces have been neutered over the last few generations by a series of increasingly risk averse administrations that insist on total control over every aspect of any military operation that has the slightest risk of collateral damage. Of course that is an impossible thing to control, because military action isn’t perfect;…

Why bother? Why waste the bandwidth to make this announcement when the policy of the current regime is to allow illegals over our borders without any significant resistance or flitering of them…and that includes many who have active CCP Flu. My guess is that wetbacks outnumber legal immigrants by a significant amount. We admitted just…