Eyes that do not see: D.C. downplaying the latest Russian bomber threat

An F-22 from the 302d Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, AK intercepts a Russian Tu-95MS Bear H. (USAF image)

I never imagined I’d see the day when America received a major national security threat, and no one recognized it.  New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

What Obama could have done differently to avert the border crisis

 

Riding “the beast.” Migrants make the perilous journey through Mexico.

New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

*Multimedia note*:  Kender Uncensored of “Talking Treason” will be streaming live audio coverage of the Monday 7 July protest in Murrieta, CA.  Tune in here for coverage starting by 11:00 AM PDT.

Asian mysteries: MH370 and the Iranian naval flotilla

 

Conundrum.

We appear to have ourselves a bona fide mystery.  If anyone in authority knows what happened to the Malaysian Air 777 that took off on 8 March headed for China, he’s not talking.  The most recent revelations, as readers no doubt know, suggest that the plane continued flying for about 7 hours after the last official contact from the cockpit.

The UK Mirror produced a graphic depicting the 634 airfields where

Defense cuts and the fragile, undefended bubble we now live in

What is there to say that most readers even need to hear?  As he did so often, Reagan summed it up nicely in a brief, well-known phrase:

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

An especially important point here is that the converse is true.  The conditions for major war develop much more easily when the U.S. is too weak. They are developing as we speak.

Russian navy promises “support” to Nicaragua; *Multi-media UPDATE*

… and other news from the brave new world

In case you were wondering: no, the former-Soviet navy didn’t use to send warships to visit Nicaragua, back in the day.  Although the Nicaragua of the 1980s under Daniel Ortega was a client of the Soviet Union, Moscow didn’t send naval task forces to visit back then.  Soviet navy ships were in Cuba on a regular basis, but running the Russian navy around a Central American circuit is a new thing.

And what a thing it is.  Russia and Nicaragua can’t do this quietly.  They have to make headlines