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New Facebook Poll Question: Use of Deadly Force to Protect the Southern Border

With the introduction of military personnel to patrol the southern border, the question had to be broached. What about deadly force? They may be there providing support. Working on engineering. Protecting workers installing barriers. But no matter how much marketing or PR you may see about other roles soldiers are a projection of force. To that …

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Viva La Revolution Venezuela

What happened? Reuters is reporting that Wednesday Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president. American President Trump formally recognized Guaido shortly after his announcement. Trump praised Guaido’s plan to hold elections. That was followed by similar statements from Canada and a group of Latin American governments including Venezuela’s neighbors Brazil and Colombia. Socialist …

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Appeals Court Upholds Trump’s Military Transgender Ban

A Federal appeals court has upheld the partial ban on transgenders serving in the military. In their opinion, the lower court erred in its judgment that the policy was the equivalent of a blanket ban. According to Western Journal,  “The government took substantial steps to cure the procedural deficiencies the court identified in the enjoined …

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Of Martial Law

Before I begin my discourses on Locke and constitutional government my wife suggested that I needed to write on the definitions of two terms: martial law and militia. I am going to discuss martial law first. Currently, my wife and I are reading an “apocalyptic” book which deals with life after an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) …

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Yikes. Just…yikes.

Headlines from yesterday’s Daily Mail Online: “U.S. Air Force developing terrifying swarms of tiny unmanned drones that can hover, crawl and even kill targets.  The Micro Air Vehicles will work in swarms to provide complex surveillance of a battlefield. They can also be armed with incapacitating chemicals, combustible payloads or even explosives ‘for precision targeting capability’.” …

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Anonymous responds to Obama’s 2013 Gun Control measures….

The pot is boiling.  The Executive Branch’s DHS is buying fully-automatic rifles and millions of rounds of .223 caliber ammunition. When is someone in the GOP going to file an impeachment case against this President?  Will it be left up to the people of the United States (likely just 3%, as in 1776) to correct this …

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