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Western Civ 101
By Kenneth R. Timmerman It was January 15, 1987, and the “Rev” had joined some 500 students marching down Palm Drive, the spectacular tree-lined entrance to the Stanford University campus. The students were — quite literally — calling on Stanford to end the requirement that all freshmen take an introductory course to Western Civilization. (Jackson, […]
Iran Still Building Missiles: Who Is Enabling It?
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Iran has kept the capacity to build ballistic missiles and drones, Western officials say, and one of them says Russia is supplying missiles (SOURCE HERE). The Pentagon said in April that Iran “can no longer build missiles,” and Trump has now paused strikes […]
Pentagon Will Livestream Hasan’s Execution: What The Media Misses
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pentagon confirmed Oct. 8 that it will livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, set for Dec. 3 (SOURCE HERE). It would be the first public execution in the U.S. since 1936, and some of the sharpest objections are […]
78 Former U.S. Military Leaders Release Public Statement Condemning Dishonest Use of Genocide Label for Gaza
By The Geller Report The blood libeling of the Jewish people follows the Nazi playbook. 78 former US Military leaders release a public statement Condemning the genocide lie in Gaza and the number of signatories will, no doubt, continue to grow. The challenge, of course, is that the lie has a head of steam. Nevertheless […]
U.S. to Livestream Army Firing Squad Execution of Fort Hood Shooter, Pentagon Says
By Family Research Council WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The US will livestream the Army’s upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution. Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, is set to […]
EXCLUSIVE: CAIR, Students for Justice in Palestine Under Investigation for Supporting Hamas After Oct. 7
By The Daily Signal FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita launched an investigation into the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Students for Justice in Palestine Wednesday, demanding documents regarding the groups’ statements following the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel. Rokita sent civil investigative demand letters, ordering CAIR and Students […]
America Is Building an Autonomous Military. Are the Guardrails Keeping Up?
By Family Research Council On September 30 at Quantico, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced something that deserves far more attention than another Pentagon reorganization. Among six initiatives unveiled in his “State of the Force” address, Hegseth announced plans for a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, or AUTOWARCOM, intended to build and scale autonomous and robotic […]
Pentagon Preps To Resume Iran Combat: State Of Play
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew out to the USS Abraham Lincoln on Oct. 7 to pin a Presidential Unit Citation on a strike group returning from nearly eleven months at sea, the same day Axios reported the Pentagon has told Central Command to finish […]
Boeing Lands $14.7B Patriot Deal
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Boeing won a contract worth up to $14.7 billion to triple production of the seeker at the heart of the Patriot interceptor, the weapon the US has been burning through at a frightening pace across three wars at once. The industrial base is […]
Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About Oct. 7 Massacre, 3 Years Later
By Victor Davis Hanson Written by Victor Davis Hanson Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. This week marks […]
Is Trump the Second Spartan Leonidas?
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) WATCH: ‘300’ featuring Donald Trump as King Leonidas (A.I. Movie Trailer) About Leonidas I Leonidas I was a king of the Greek city-state of Sparta (reigned c. 489–480 BC) best known for leading a small Allied Greek force at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 […]
France’s Muslim Riots Take Explosive New Turn
By The Geller Report For decades, successive French governments opened their boarders to people from dangerous jihad nations. This is the result. The French government usually takes negligible action to subdue these violent protestors, since they need their vote to win elections. France is toast. Not salvageable. Don’t let this happen to America. Vote Republican […]
US Pulls Bombers From Britain
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes America moved its bombers out of England after a plot against the base. The US withdrew its last B-1B bombers from RAF Fairford over the weekend, days after British counter-terrorism police broke up a suspected Iran-linked plot targeting the base that staged American […]
If Putin Threatened Nuclear War, Would Trump Defend a NATO Ally?
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes I was in Poland when the news started to feel close. A Russian drone hit a passenger train in Ukraine near the Polish border. A fire damaged a Starlink station in Poland. Investigators now say it was arson and suspect the people responsible […]
Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options
By The Daily Signal Victor Davis Hanson: The Great Betrayal: Why Conservatives Are Echoing the Left Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Iran, let’s […]
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Delivers ‘State of the Force’ Address, Outlines Series of New Initiatives
By Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS) Pentagon News — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on the status of the military today, during which he announced six new initiatives for the War Department. Speaking to both a broadcast audience and 600 O-3 officers and E-6 enlisted service members […]
Iran Hits Tankers, US Surges Marines
By The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Iran’s Revolutionary Guard attacked two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, and the US surged a Marine amphibious group and a second carrier toward the Gulf in response. The fight over the passage that carries a fifth of the world’s oil is escalating fast. Hormuz is the […]
The Big Stick is on The Way
By Kenneth R. Timmerman “I have spent my life tracking down the murderers of yesterday. Mr. Timmerman is tracking down the murderers of tomorrow.” — Simon Wiesenthal Surely you remember Teddy Roosevelt’s famous prescription for successful foreign policy: “speak softly, but carry a big stick.” President Trump doesn’t rarely speak softly, but he’s been comparatively […]
How Was the Jihadi Pilot Cleared to Fly?
By The Geller Report It has been 25 years since 19 Muslims hijacked planes and flew them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, while courageous passengers thwarted their attempt to hit a third target in Washington, D.C. You’d think that since then, sensible measures would have been instituted to prevent that kind of jihad […]
Airline Pilot on Dubai Terrort Attack: “The Motive is That Islam Calls For the Death Of Jews”
By The Geller Report Pilot and Aviation expert Captain Byron Bailey tells the TRUTH, that so little people are courageous enough to discuss live on air. It shouldn’t even be deemed courageous to state facts. The motive is clear to anyone with a brain. Aussie pilot Capt Byron Bailey’s candor on FlyDubai attack “motive”: “In […]
Netanyahu: We gave UK intel on jihad attack on airbase, then they sanctioned us
By Jihad Watch WATCH: Netanyahu: We gave UK intel on jihad attack on airbase, then they sanctioned us What motivates this suicidal ingratitude? The far-left British government is desperate to placate its growing and restive Muslim population, and to keep on getting its votes. It knows that the Muslims in Britain hate Israel above all, […]
The Spy Network Accused of Recruiting U.S. Agents for Pro-Russian Terrorism
By Family Research Council The name Oemis Romagoza appeared on the identity documents from his native Cuba and his country of residence, Russia. His salsa and bachata students in the city of Petrozavodsk knew him by that name as well. However, the men he recruited for a network linked to Russian military intelligence (GRU) nicknamed […]
Iran Moves To Rebuild Hezbollah
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Iran analysts at the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project say a senior Iranian delegation close to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei visited southern Lebanon this week to shore up Hezbollah. The trip signals that Iran is moving to rebuild its most important […]
The Last American Troops Have Left Iraq: Your Briefing
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pentagon said the final US forces completed an orderly departure from Iraq through the Erbil Air Base, ending the ground mission against the Islamic State. It closes a campaign that began in 2014 and leaves no American troops on Iraqi soil. The […]
Pentagon Launches Autonomous Warfare Command For Drones
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, nicknamed AutoWarCom, to speed the military’s acquisition of drones and artificial intelligence. The command is meant to fix the thing everyone agrees is broken: the Pentagon buys autonomy far too slowly to […]
Moscow Puts A Nuclear Threat Against NATO In Writing
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Russia warned that it would use nuclear weapons to defend Kaliningrad if the alliance moved to cut the exclave off from the rest of the country, in a document delivered to NATO and seen by Reuters. It is the sharpest Russian nuclear threat […]
Legal Immigration from Majority-Muslim Nations Was Cut 96% Since 2024
By The Geller Report New figures show that Trump has cut legal immigration from majority-Muslim nations by 96% since taking office in January 2024. This is what should have happened after 9/11. America’s domestic enemies will club us like baby seals with this (islamofauxbia!) but it is impossible to know how many lives have been […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hegseth Announces New ‘Patriotic’ Officer Training Program In Partnership With Select Universities
By The Daily Caller Secretary of War Pete Hegseth unveiled a new military training program in partnership with several universities aimed at growing the number of “patriotic” officers. The War Department is establishing America’s Corps of Cadets Monday, partnering with several universities to expand available officer training programs, according to a memo to Pentagon leadership […]
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to cut 20% of admirals, generals in Pentagon shake-up
By Royal A. Brown III Long overdue — services way too top heavy in Flag Officers. BREAKING: Hegseth to cut 20% of admirals, generals in Pentagon shake-up The reduction of top brass will be a downgrade of some positions instead of eliminating all of them altogether. By Thomas Stevenson War Secretary Pete Hegseth is set […]
Europe Runs Short Of Warships
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Union’s top diplomat admitted its navies lack enough warships to escort merchant vessels through the Red Sea, where Iran-backed Houthis are choking a lane that carries a third of global trade. The gap starkly shows how thin allied naval power has […]