US Launches Airstrike in Somalia as US-Backed Government Claims Major Al-Shabaab Casualties

"Hubris Generally Precedes Clusterf**k": Does It Smell Like Victory? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The message seems to be something like the USA isn’t messing around with all those strike forces in the waters around Iran. The Islamic Republic suddenly looks like Rock-and-Hard-Place-Land. Everybody and his uncle are trying to figure out the calculus in play, World War Three or a happy ending? You’re seeing the most significant US military build-up over there in memory. Smells a little bit like first Gulf War, 1991 — minus all those allies we roped in then. Mr. Trump (via...

Blue States Are Still Facing A Mass Taxpayer Exodus Long After COVID Remember when blues state Democrats tried to enforce sweeping pandemic mandates for years after it became clear that covid was not the "mass killer" that the supposed experts claimed it would be?  Remember when they called for people to be jailed for publicly speaking about scientific facts that contradicted the narrative?  Remember when they called for people's children to be taken away if they refused to vaccinate?  Remember how millions of people left blue states in response to the...