Ocasio-Cortez’s amendment to stop Esports recruiting defeated

The “Twitch” amendment to the Pentagon’s spending bill is dead. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), had proposed to ban the military from or severely reduce the military recruiting through the e-sports gaming community.  Her amendment barely got 50 percent of Democrats in the House on board and was roundly defeated by a 292-126 margin on Thursday. […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to ban the military from Esports recruiting

Online gaming and eSports are huge among young people in the United States. Therefore, the military sees it as a recruiting possibility. Yet, one Democratic congresswoman wants to stop the tactic of recruiting through such venues dead in its tracks.  On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NY), introduced an amendment to the House Appropriations bill that […]

Political clash over Russian Bounties heats up

Nothing gets the blood boiling faster in Washington than political infighting. The most recent case concerns the alleged Russian practice of paying the Taliban for killing American soldiers. According to a report by the New York Times, U.S. intelligence officials had determined that a Russian military intelligence unit (GRU) had offered militants allied to the […]

Bill to rename military bases named after Confederate generals gains steam

Despite vows from the White House to block any name change of military bases named after Confederate officers, the proposal is gathering bipartisan momentum.  The Senate Armed Services Committee included in its draft of the annual defense authorization bill a proposal to change the names of bases honoring Confederate officers. The proposal mentions that the […]

From plastic back to paper, the World-Savers are at it again

When I was a kid the whole country switched from paper grocery bags over to plastic due to the pressure of professional environmentalists who wanted to save the trees. Most of you reading this have no memory of paper bags being used but it was quite something. They came in about four or five different […]

Would you vote Socialist if you knew what it was?

Preaching Socialism/ Living Capitalism America may be the safest place in the world to preach Socialism to others while prospering under Capitalism. That’s the life of Bernie Sanders, who somehow managed to take our racist, rigged, hopelessly flawed Capitalist system and make it work for him. His net worth is said to be over $2 […]

The Winds of Change Blow in Africa: 101st Paratroopers out, Security Forces in

The Pentagon’s decision to replace elements of an infantry brigade of the 101st Airborne with elements of the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) has long been in the works.  This will accomplish two tasks: Firstly, it will provide better continuity in training missions with a unit designed to train foreign troops, thereby freeing up […]

The Democrat Party is a wet hot mess, again

Rise of the Progressives Not for the first time, the Democrat party appears to be splintering along factional lines. It has a long history of this actually. In 1860, anti-slavery Northern Democrats and pro-slavery Southern Democrats split at their convention and each nominated a candidate for President with the Southerners favoring John Breckenridge and the […]

Attorney General William Barr, probably the most dangerous man in DC

An Equal Opportunity Piss-er Off-er Attorney General William Barr may be the most dangerous man in Washington DC right now. Within a week he managed to get both Republicans and Democrats to break out the pitchforks and torches and call for his head. First, Barr took issue with the sentencing of Roger Stone and intervened […]

Trump’s huge budget means huge deficits

Dead On Arrival The President has proposed a budget for 2021 as is his duty, but don’t expect it to pass unscathed. The Left is already pronouncing it “DOA” and there is enough in the proposal to make just about everybody mad at him. The fundamental flaw, which stands out immediately, is that it requires […]

The aftermath of the impeachment trial

After the impeachment of President Clinton ended in February 1999 with an acquittal, he appeared before the cameras to make an act of contrition: “I want to say again to the American People how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events, and the great burden these have imposed […]