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A good development regarding cost and product cycle: twz.com/air/blackbeard-hyper…
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Why do I get the feeling that SEC America, epitomized by over 100k in attendance to see UT vs UT, is exactly what the Left wants to destroy.
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This is clearly the way:
Not too late for Trump to inspire young people with a bold Five Year Plan of replacing all the slave labor in Our Economy with agents, robots and Americans.
Just stop issuing or renewing H-1Bs. Debank helots, then prosecute their employers. Teach the meth heads to hang drywall
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The suggestion that diesel exports should be banned is ridiculous economically, but wins politically because of a lack of understanding of derivative causality & math. 2nd and 3rd order consequences are not a mass democracy's strength.
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Escalatory or good deterrence? twz.com/news-features/latvia…
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Historically, Legitimacy is conferred through the vehicle of a collective public Affirmation: As was the case, for example in Rome (Republic and Empire, for 2000 years). This affirmation took the form of sacred, shared Ceremony and an orchestrated program of Ritual and Symbol. These ceremonies were not simply spectacle: Rather, they formed the very vehicle of conveyance conferring Legitimacy. Without it: Civil War!
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I sat in one in the late 80s, and was immediately captivated. What a stunner.
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BREAKING: The US Navy has completely withdrawn its warships from the blockade line around Iran after Iran’s first operational use of the advanced Qasem Basir “carrier killer” anti-ship ballistic missile, with satellite imagery showing no US carriers or destroyers in the Gulf of Oman or Arabian Sea since early September, per open-source intelligence and Sentinel-2 data.
The Qasem Basir has a declared range of roughly 1,200 kilometers — enough to cover nearly the entire Gulf of Oman and the US fleet’s previous positions — and is reportedly equipped with electro-optical and thermal imaging seekers designed to track naval targets. SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said the missile “created hell for the Americans,” while CENTCOM acknowledged US vessels came under attack by hostile missiles but said they were defeated without damage.
Satellite imagery shows the USS George Washington, USS George H.W. Bush, USS Tripoli and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are no longer visible in the designated blockade zone, with the line reportedly pushed beyond the missile’s range. The USS Gerald R. Ford has also left the Middle East after a ten-month deployment, leaving the US with two carriers in the region as CENTCOM prepares “short and strong” strike options against Iran.
The blockade remains in place on paper, but the warships enforcing it have reportedly moved beyond the range of Iran’s anti-ship missiles.
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Universities are constantly marketing to potential students, staff, faculty, and their families. The inundation of this type of humorous imagery cannot be helping the University of Texas efforts along those lines.
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What truly legitimizes a regime? Is it the will of the people? Or is it the pursuit of what is truly just?
St. Augustine argues that without justice, an empire is ultimately no different from a large-scale criminal organization:
“Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs themselves but petty kingdoms? A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound together by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy is enlarged by the accession of abandoned men to such a size that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by the renouncing of aggression but by the attainment of impunity.”
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Ronald Dodson retweeted
In which I respond to the insinuations and hysteria exhibited in Erick Erickson’s “expose.”
Last week, blogger @EWErickson maligned the Claremont Institute, one of our donors, and a few of our fellows and alumni, relying substantially on guilt-by-association smears and innuendo.
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Ronald Dodson retweeted
Our fellowship alumni, supporters, and friends know that these insinuations and caricatures about what Claremont is up to are false.
We'll continue to teach, write, and lead. In all of our work, we try and help our fellow citizens and national and state elites (in the best sense of the term) understand the threats to America and the West--and what to do about them.
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