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  • Nature vs. The Machines

    Nature vs. The Machines0

    As cool as drones are, we still have nothing on the power of nature. Yes, we can program the machines, but now the police in the Netherlands are training eagles to take them out. There’s some delicious irony here:    Tolkien would be proud.      (Image Credit: SeattleTimes.com) Save this article to favorites

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  • NATO Unhinged

    NATO Unhinged0

    Lord Hastings Ismay, Winston Churchill’s trusted military advisor and NATO’s first secretary-general (1952-1957), famously quipped in the early days of his tenure that the purpose of the Alliance was to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” In the early 1950s Ismay’s adage made sense. Stalin’s armored divisions, encamped in

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  • Nationalism to Confront Globalism in Glasgow

    Nationalism to Confront Globalism in Glasgow0

    “Extraordinary, isn’t it? I’ve been hearing all about COP,” said the queen to the duchess of Cornwall. “Still don’t know who is coming. … We only know about people who are not coming. … It’s really irritating when they talk but they don’t do.” Queen Elizabeth II was expressing her exasperation at the possible number

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  • Nationalism in America is a Farce that Will End in Tragedy

    Nationalism in America is a Farce that Will End in Tragedy0

    Karl Marx famously began The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by observing that Hegel “remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. Hegel, and by implication Marx, was wrong. The uniqueness of circumstance and the individuality of actor mean that history does not, and cannot, repeat itself. But

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  • National School Board Association Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents

    National School Board Association Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents1

    Parental rights in education is not domestic terrorism. Any organization that says otherwise should have no influence over public policy whatsoever. And yet, in a first draft of a letter to President Joe Biden, the National School Boards Association requested the Army National Guard and military police to monitor parents in school board meetings. Why? Because parents

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  • National Review Errs on Tax Cuts

    National Review Errs on Tax Cuts0

    National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru has a new article, “The Tax Cut Doesn’t ‘Tilt Toward the Middle Class.” The piece apparently responds to commentary by Veronique de Rugy and me about the effects of the GOP tax plan. Ramesh says: According to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), households making between $20,000 and $30,000 pay 0.7

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