Doug Brignole's Iron Man Archive

Powerful 7.5-Magnitude Quake Hits Northern Japan, Triggers Tsunami Warnings A powerful and shallow 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeast coast, triggering a tsunami at Kuji Port in Iwate Prefecture. Public broadcaster NHK initially warned that a tsunami up to 10 feet high was expected to hit the Iwate area on Honshu's main island. However, so far, it has been reported to be about 31 inches high. The quake was reported shortly before 17:00 local time, rattled towers as far away as Tokyo, and forced the suspension of Shinkansen high-speed rail services in...

The Elites And Their Contempt Authored by Rev. John F. Naugle via The Brownstone Institute, Last week, I was unexpectedly hit with a post-lockdown trauma response. While driving to a baseball game days before the NFL Draft came to Pittsburgh, I passed a digital highway sign instructing me to avoid nonessential travel. Suddenly, memories of empty highways with signs instructing drivers to “Stay Safe and Stay Home” came flooding back to me. As the week developed, it began to occur to me that the parallels were deeper than my subjective emotional response. Road...

Vance Tops CPAC Straw Poll For 2028 GOP Presidential Nominee Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Vice President JD Vance is the leading candidate to take the Republican nomination for president in 2028, according to a straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 28. Vice President JD Vance waves as he departs Air Force Two at Rocky Mount-Wilson Regional Airport in Elm City, N.C., on March 13, 2026. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Vance received 53 percent of the support of the people who attended the...