Cervantes was more proud of fighting at Lepanto than of all the books he wrote. I he had to choose, he would have rather been remembered as a soldier who fought at Lepanto than being remembered as one of the greatest writers ever. Such was the glory of this battle.

Jesus, I've never seen an interview like this! 🤯 Watch the whole thing or at least read my notes: 1. Yaniv was sitting in Row 11, not Business Class. He heard a woman up front yelling “Stabbings!" (She didn't say who.) Yaniv immediately stands up to see what's going on. 2. Wife & daughters are sitting around him. Then the plane starts shaking. Plane rolls very sharply leftward and back to horizontal in a terrifying way. 3. It hits him that the commotion isn't a fight in Business Class, it's happening in the cockpit. 4. He yells “Buckle up!” and runs toward the cockpit. He's 6 feet away from the cockpit when the plane suddenly nosedives. 5. It felt like it nosedived for an eternity. (In reality about 30 seconds at 30,000ft/min, reaching speeds of about Mach 0.96. Those 30 seconds of nosediving cut the plane's altitude in half.) 6. “I was flying.” He was blown around upward, sideways, he was pressed against the floor extremely hard. (A 180lb man would effectively have 540lb of downward force on their body as the first nosedive leveled out.) 7. “I kept trying my hardest to get up off the ground. At some point, I was finally able to, when the plane leveled off a little.” He speculates that a system kicked in to automatically stabilize the plane. 8. He goes to the cockpit door and there's a crew member in a white shirt, who looks like he's also a pilot. He's grabbing the cockpit door with both hands, with his body leaning down. I didn't know if he was trying to open the door, or trying to hold the door closed! 9. “I get to him, I move him away, he doesn't resist. I open the cockpit door — it was a little difficult because the pilot was lying down on the floor behind it, the one who was attacked.” 10. “I went in. The terrorist was crouching with his knees on the instruments between the two pilots' seats. There was no one in the pilots' seats. He was hitting the instrument panel, trying to break the equipment.” 11. Yaniv yells “Come help!” to any other Israelis who are also in the aisle. He doesn't know how many there are because his back is to them. 12. Yaniv immediately grabs the terrorist by the throat and starts moving him away from the controls. The terrorist resisted, but Yaniv's struggle to get him out of the cockpit only took a few seconds. 13. A handful of men who'd already gotten up from their seats together with Yaniv were already standing in the aisle dividing up responsibilities among themselves. They take over subduing the terrorist. 14. Yaniv turns back to the cockpit controls. At this point, the plane isn't nosediving, but it's still angled downward. He looks out the windshield and sees ground in the distance. 14. He leans over the pilot's seat, grabs the yoke and pulls it upward. He feels the nose of the plane come up. 15. A few seconds later, a pilot (not an Israeli) comes up behind him and says “Release the controls, I'll take it.” 16. Yaniv wasn't sure whether the other pilot was trustworthy, but he said “ok” and let him sit down at the controls. He intended to supervise the new pilot. 17. Yaniv turns around and briefly helps the men who are dealing the terrorist blows to subdue him, since apparently the terrorist is still resisting. Eventually the terrorist stops resisting, he possibly gets knocked unconscious, and the men tie him up with headphone cables. 18. Yaniv also helps the men remove the wounded Indian pilot from the cockpit. Then he goes to close the cockpit door with himself and the replacement pilot inside. 19. At this point, a member of the flight crew arrives at the cockpit door and wants to come in. Yaniv asks the replacement pilot whether to let the crew member in. He says yes, he's with us. 20. The flight crew member comes in. He has a tablet with a map. Yaniv closes the cockpit door with the three of them inside. He latches it. 21. Now Yaniv is focused on checking that the replacement pilot and the crew member are acting properly to land the plane. He sees that the pilot is talking on the radio to ground control. It sounds good to Yaniv, even though he doesn't speak much English. Yaniv can tell he's reporting that there are injured people, that we're heading in a certain direction, and that he's requesting help. 22. Some of the other Israelis were assigned to guard the rest of the flight crew. At this point, they feared that the whole crew could be conspiring. This is why the entirety of the stressful incident was about 40 minutes long. They couldn't relax until they landed and the flight crew got off the plane. 23. When they landed, one of the Israelis on the plane bought eSIM cards with a data package for everyone. As soon as they get reception, he gets a bunch of messages with pictures of himself on international news. 24. The landing was an incredible celebration. Singing, what fun we were having. 25. Let's rewind. You wake up in the morning before getting on this flight. Did something prepare you for this engagement? Something in the army? Some instinct? “Well, in the army, I was working the closest to the fire in the kitchen. (I wasn't a cook, I'd, you know, get the food and divide it up.)” 26. Yaniv personally didn't feel scared to board the second FlyDubai flight they sent. What are the odds lightning would strike twice? “Even being in this situation once was like winning the lottery.” 27. Did FlyDubai offer some kind of compensation for the incident? Did they contact you at all? “Nothing.” 28. Will you fly again? “Fly again? Sure.” 29. When are you going back to work? “I want to on Sunday.” What an interview. Makes me proud to be Israeli.

NFL preseason: “Rest the starters. Someone might get turf toe.” NBA preseason: “We need to manage their loads.” MLB spring training: “I got a paper cut. Put me on the 10-day IL.” NHL preseason: “Let’s fucking kill each other.”

As a libertarian, I agree with Megan. The Libertarian movement has lost itself in philosophical wrangling that cannot win where it counts. They whine and gripe about "how the two party system holds us down." But they never come up with effective plans to overcome that except ones that benefit Democrats who are determined to deny the liberty they claim they stand for. And libertarians work with Democrats on stupid policy particularly when it comes to war. Yes. Let's stop the wars. I'm with you on that. But if you are going to destroy Trump over it, you prove your worthlessness as you shack up with To Khanna an the idiots in the squad. I've had it with the whining by libertarians. It's feckless and stupid. Put up or shut up. And I mean in the Republican party. There is no Democrat course toward liberty. And when you "stock it to the man" with your illogical and philosophically insane motion that "well, maybe it will be good if Democrats win so we can kick out the neocons," you cut off your nose to spite your face. And you cut off everyone's else's nose just so you can get revenge. Stupid! And, no. @RepThomasMassie is not putting up by filing impeachment on @SecWar. @justinamash is not putting up by arguing with Megan Basham. I think they don't understand how useful Christian conservative leaders can be if you dammed hateful libertarians would stop arguing with them. Libertarians are whiny pacifists who have lost their moral anchor (@TRHLofficial excluded here). This is why while adhering to the principles of von Mises and Hayek, I'm not pushing libertarianism anymore. I'm a constitutionalist. If you claim to be libertarian and won't restrain your efforts to restoring the constitution (and that doesn't mean if we can stop the Iran war we win as good as that would be), you are merely spouting off and whining. If you won't fight to win real battles for the Constitution, please,just sit on the sidelines and suck your thumbs while you fight to make porn widely available.

No classical education, no America… When Alexander Hamilton entered King’s College (now Columbia University) in 1773, he was expected to have a mastery of Greek and Latin grammar, be able to read three orations from Cicero and Vergil’s Aeneid in the original Latin, and be able to translate the first ten chapters of the Gospel of John from Greek into Latin. Thomas Jefferson received early training in Latin, Greek, and French, and then continued his formal education at a classical academy in preparation for attending the College of William and Mary, where his classical education continued, along with his study of law. When James Madison applied at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), he had already read Vergil, Horace, Justinian, Caesar, Tacitus, Lucretius, Phaedrus, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato. John Adams received a classical education before entering Harvard College at the age of sixteen, where Greek and Latin were central components of the curriculum. His education immersed him in the literature, history, rhetoric, and political thought of the ancient world, and classical authors and examples continued to appear throughout his writings on republican government and constitutionalism. John Jay entered King’s College (now Columbia University) at the age of fourteen. Like other students at the college, he received a classical education centered on Latin and Greek, alongside rhetoric, logic, philosophy, mathematics, and political subjects. Jay would later become president of the Continental Congress, co-author of The Federalist, the first Chief Justice of the United States, and one of the young republic’s most important diplomats. John Hancock attended Boston Latin School before entering Harvard College. Boston Latin, founded on the model of the English grammar school, placed classical languages at the heart of its curriculum and prepared its students for the heavily classical course of study they would encounter at Harvard. Gouverneur Morris, one of the most influential delegates at the Constitutional Convention and the man principally responsible for the final wording and style of the Constitution, was educated at King’s College. There he participated in the same classical educational tradition that formed John Jay and, later, Alexander Hamilton, studying within a curriculum grounded in Greek and Latin literature, rhetoric, philosophy, and history. James Wilson, a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and later one of the first justices of the Supreme Court, was educated at the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh in Scotland before emigrating to America. His education exposed him to the classical tradition as well as the Scottish Enlightenment, influences that would later appear in his extensive writings and lectures on law and government. John Dickinson, the influential revolutionary statesman known as the “Penman of the Revolution,” received a classical education before studying law. His education and later legal training placed him within the same intellectual tradition in which ancient history, classical republicanism, rhetoric, and the study of earlier political systems provided essential material for thinking about liberty and constitutional government. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, entered the College of New Jersey at thirteen and graduated at fourteen. His education included the classical languages and literature expected of eighteenth-century collegiate students before he went on to study medicine in Philadelphia and at the University of Edinburgh. Benjamin Franklin was an important variation on this pattern. Unlike Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jay, and many of the other founders, his formal schooling ended when he was young. Yet through an extraordinary program of self-education he immersed himself in history, philosophy, rhetoric, science, and literature, acquiring through independent study much of the intellectual culture that his contemporaries encountered through formal schooling. Other key figures in the American founding received similar educations.

An awful lot of folks seem determined to rewrite what Hurricane Helene and its aftermath actually looked like. Let me remind you: 👉🏼whole families were lost 👉🏼communication disappeared during the storm 👉🏼relief trailers sat untouched in Hickory because FEMA “didn’t know how to get them into the mountains” 👉🏼businesses were washed away - many of them will never return 👉🏼there are still road closures two years later 👉🏼parts of the BRP and the GSMNP remain closed 👉🏼hundreds, if not thousands, of families still haven’t had their homes repaired 👉🏼whole communities will never be the same… like Swannanoa 👉🏼Biden’s FEMA skipped over conservative homes and lied by telling the media that bands of armed hillbillies were terrorizing volunteers 👉🏼Cooper started pulling the National Guard out of WNC in November, despite the desperate need for continued debris removal 👉🏼victims were nearly kicked out of their hotels in the middle of a snow storm And to add insult to injury, now I’m seeing influencers and media personalities tell people we need to “focus on the positive.” No. You want to make your little video? Make it. You want to post your pretty pictures and say thank you? Go right ahead. But don’t confuse positivity with pretending the devastation or the failures didn’t happen. And don’t you dare tell generational hillbillies how we’re supposed to feel about Helene. She stole homes - sometimes even the land under people’s feet. She took jobs. She ended lives. And she reminded WNC that it is the land of the forgotten. You don’t get to rewrite that experience because the truth isn’t pretty enough for your feed.

Who thought the Bills alternate uniforms were good? Fire them all and bring back the early 90's uniforms.

What really happened after the State Dinner. The lost Xi camera roll has been found.

On this day in 1779, an American captain stood on the deck of a ship that was literally sinking under his feet, on fire, riddled with holes, half his crew dead or wounded, and when the enemy shouted across the water asking if he surrendered, he roared back a line that the United States Navy has never forgotten: "I have not yet begun to fight!" His name was John Paul Jones, and what he did that night made him the founding legend of the American navy. Understand how insane the setting was. Jones was not defending American waters. He had taken the fight to the enemy's home, cruising in a small squadron right off the coast of England itself, terrorizing British shipping in their own front yard. His flagship was an old, worn-out French merchant vessel he had converted into a warship and renamed the Bonhomme Richard, in honor of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard." It was slow, tired, and outgunned. Off Flamborough Head, Jones ran into a British convoy escorted by a brand-new, faster, more powerful Royal Navy frigate called the Serapis. By every rational measure, Jones should have run. The Serapis was a better ship with heavier guns. Instead, Jones attacked. The battle that followed, fought into the night under a rising moon, was one of the most savage ship-to-ship duels of the entire age of sail. Early on, disaster struck the Americans: two of the Bonhomme Richard's big old cannon burst when fired, blowing apart their own gun crews and leaving Jones dangerously short of firepower. The Serapis hammered the Richard mercilessly, its heavier guns tearing the American ship to splinters, opening holes below the waterline, setting fires. The Richard was being destroyed. So Jones did the only thing that could save him. If he could not win a gunnery duel, he would not fight one. He drove his ship straight into the Serapis and lashed the two vessels together, hull against hull, muzzle to muzzle, so close the gun crews were practically fighting through each other's ports. Now it was not a naval battle so much as a brawl, and Jones's American and French sailors and marines could rake the enemy's decks with musket fire and grenades from the rigging. It was in the middle of this hell, with his ship clearly sinking and afire, that the British captain called over, reasonably, to ask if the Americans had had enough and wished to strike their colors. And Jones, standing on a doomed deck, gave the answer that became immortal: he had not yet begun to fight. And he meant it. The turning point came from above. One of Jones's men climbed out on a yardarm over the enemy ship and dropped a grenade down through an open hatch into the Serapis, where it touched off a chain of gunpowder charges. The explosion ripped through the British gun deck, killing and maiming dozens of men in an instant. The fight went out of the Serapis. Its captain, his own ship now wrecked and burning, finally surrendered. And here is the almost unbelievable ending. John Paul Jones had won, but his own ship was beyond saving. The Bonhomme Richard was so shattered that it slowly sank over the next day, and Jones had to move his victorious crew onto the captured Serapis and sail away in the enemy's ship, because his own had gone to the bottom. He won the battle and lost his vessel, all at once. The victory made him a hero on both sides of the Atlantic, a symbol that the infant United States could carry the war to the mightiest navy on earth and win. To this day, the Navy calls John Paul Jones its father, and it teaches new sailors his answer from that burning deck. Remember September 23, 1779, and the man who was sinking, and on fire, and outgunned, and answered a demand for his surrender by saying he had not yet begun to fight, and then proved it.

I stand with @JohnCleese.

I was hoping for Doolittle, but Jimmy Stewart will have to do. Shut up and take my money! JIMMY – First Look youtu.be/KmIeqO2Lrv4?si=IJ7J… via @YouTube

On Yom Kippur in 1965, The Great Sandy Koufax declined to pitch Game 1 of the World Series as it fell on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. He returned to win the series for the Dodgers, received the Most Valuable Player Award, and was named Sportsman of the Year. Mensch.

The size and scope of this operation, as well as the incredible opsec it required to ensure successful deployment, will be studied by clandestine services for years and years to come. Also, notice how you can clearly see the explosions when the explosions happen? Wild how that works.

This is a great example of how vectors work.

This might be the best political chart ever made…

On September 15, 1940, the Royal Air Force won a decisive victory against the largest daylight German air attack of the Second World War. The Luftwaffe launched over 1,000 aircraft in two waves toward London. Losses were so heavy Germany abandoned its daylight bombing campaign.

"AI took the suffering out of art." But don't you worry. The comment section will put it back.

RESPECT. Love this guy. Further proof it's not who's best but who's left…

I agree with the great @JackLambert058 , quarterbacks should wear skirts.