"Russia's nuclear doctrine is called "escalate to deescalate" or, more appropriately, "escalate to win," which means threatening or using nukes early in a conventional conflict...
Why, then, doesn't the United States have what it needs at this crucial moment: nuclear-tipped cruise missiles like Putin's? The arms-control community, arguing that such low-yield weapons would make nuclear war more likely, persuaded American presidents not to build them. President Trump authorized their development, but Biden cancelled the program.
Unfortunately, arms-control advocates got it backwards. As evident from today's developments, America lacking low-yield nuclear warheads on cruise missiles is making nuclear war more likely, not less.
"The United States will need to reduce its nuclear arsenal to encourage Russia to do the same," wrote Tom Collina and Angela Kellett on the 21st of this month on the Defense One site.
Entice Russia into disarmament? Been there. Tried that. Failed miserably.
Moreover, it is bad enough to argue for disarmament in peacetime, but it is the height of folly to do so during war — and when China and North Korea are making first-strike nuclear threats of their own.
America's arms-control advocates have always been naïve. Now, they are delusional.
North Dakota State University scholars study ‘unintended consequences’ of grading
"Two North Dakota State University biologists are exploring alternative grading practices in an effort to research and advance equitable grading concepts. Part of the research for one of the scholars is funded through a grant handed out as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, passed as a COVID stimulus relief package..."
Irene Montero, the 34-year-old minister of equality in Spain, recently said in Spanish at a recent legislative meeting: "All girls, boys, childrenx in this country have the right to know their own body, to know that no adult can touch their body if they don't want to and that is a form of violence, they have the right to know that they can love or have sexual relations with whoever they want, based on consent."
"LONDON — The Bank of England will suspend the planned start of its gilt selling next week and begin temporarily buying long-dated bonds in order to calm the market chaos unleashed by the new government’s so-called “mini-budget.” U.K. gilt yields were on course for their sharpest monthly rise since at least 1957 as investors fled British fixed income markets following the new fiscal policy announcements..."
"WITH A HURRICANE APPROACHING FLORIDA, A FRIEND WRITES:
Hurricane prediction: Whatever happens to Florida between now and November 2024, it’ll be [treated as] the worst disaster response since Katrina and Maria.
Literally Hurricane Hitler.
Federal response will be reported as having been hamstrung by local ineptitude and corruption.”
1787 - The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.
1789 - In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin." The fixed-date for Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November, was established on December 26, 1941.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
As part of a new initiative aimed at bolstering the force and its crime-fighting response, the New Orleans Police Department will re-deploy officers to the streets who were previously working in administrative, specialty, and detective capacities. Extra to dispatching trained police and prompting previously rejected applicants to reapply, the NOPD will also be enrolling 50 to 75 civilians in support roles.
"The same FBI that can’t seem to get to the bottom of who’s been bombing
pregnancy clinics for the past few months reportedly sent a couple dozen armed agents over to a pro-lifer’s house and hauled him out at gunpoint in front of his wife and seven screaming kids, and you won’t believe what for."
"Monthly benefits for Americans to buy food and promoting exercise and healthy eating included in ambitious White House project to requires MORE money from Congress
The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030
The plan includes expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food
The administration also seeks to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity and hypertension
It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition...
Opportunities for virtue signaling, graft, prostituting science, and burning down capitalism have never been so vast.
...It’s such a wonderful moment, that a particularly dim fellow set himself on fire Friday at the Laver Cup tennis tournament in London to protest the use of private jets in the United Kingdom. The Sun reported that “it’s believed the yob” who was momentarily aflame “was a climate change protester.” ...The climate activist club is also filled with grifters.
Think first of Al Gore, who, says Fox News host Jesse Watters, “makes money like a stick-up artist,” telling “the American people give me all your cash or you are going to die. And the climate business pays big bucks. He’s worth something like $300 million.”...
President Joe Biden confused his supporters on Friday when he made a bizarre statement during a speech at the National Education Association headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Biden was trying to rebut Republican messaging ahead of the pivotal midterm elections when he stopped mid-speech to make a joke.
The governor basically shuts down whatever his schools were doing for a day to have a day of remembrance for Cayler Ellingson, and all the victims of "NOT JUST LEFT-wing violence, but for all the victims of political violence". Every classroom every gets a picture of young Cayler Ellingson. Have the students ask questions such as "Did the speech Joe Biden gave encourage political violence?" "Does the exceptionally low bail encourage others to commit political violence?"...
Do this on a Thursday so the students then organically walk-out on Friday...
The media can try to bury it but that's pretty hard to do when students from Florida and Texas all "Walk out in protest"."
A pro-life activist and author had his home raided by as many as 30 FBI agents with guns drawn, according to his wife. The sidewalk counselor and father of seven now faces up to 11 years in federal prison for allegedly pushing a man to the ground outside of an abortion clinic in Pennsylvania nearly a year ago. The pro-abortion man allegedly harassed the Christian man's young son.
Yesterday I posted Ramsey County District Judge John Guthmann’s Order and accompanying Memorandum that Governor Tim Walz has alleged compelled his administration to keep pouring money out to the Feeding Our Future fraudsters.
On Thursday Judge Guthmann authorized release of a statement calling out Walz for this lie and the Star Tribune for regurgitating it.
"...Judge Guthmann’s statement is posted online here. I quote it below verbatim in its entirety. Please note that the emphases are in the original:
Due to inaccurate statements by the Governor, the Commissioner of Education, and the media regarding the investigation of Feeding Our Future (FOF) and resulting federal indictments, Ramsey County District Court Judge John H. Guthmann has authorized the issuance of this news release...
...Surveillance footage showed the suspect, Alston Willis, along with two (white) accomplices in the predominately freshmen dorm. Willis allegedly scrawled the epithets twice on the victim’s door, the second time after she had erased it and put up decorations. Willis was charged with harassment while the accomplices were given a warning for trespassing.
Rowan police did not charge Willis with a hate crime because they believed he was “unaware of the victim’s race.” They would not provide details on how they made that determination, however, leaving some bewildered....
...But this may not be enough for some environmentalists. Jamie Henn, an environmental activist and the director of Fossil Free Media, recently told Rolling Stone, “Look, I want to get carbon out of the atmosphere, but this is such an opportunity to remake our society. But if we just perpetuate the same harms in a clean-energy economy, and it’s just a world of Exxons and Elon Musks—oh, man, what a nightmare.”
Many progressive commentators similarly believe that countering climate change requires a fundamental reordering of the West’s political and economic systems. “The level of disruption required to keep us at a temperature anywhere below ‘absolutely catastrophic’ is fundamentally, on a deep structural level, incompatible with the status quo,” the writer Phil McDuff has argued.
A Florida sheriff's deputy was killed in a deadly hit-and-run by an illegal immigrant who had previously been expelled from the United States – only to illegally cross the southern border again, according to law enforcement officials. During the investigation, police uncovered a "serious" immigration concern.
The NRDC, a non-profit organization based in New York City with total assets exceeding $450 million, has worked on climate issues extensively in China since the mid-1990s and several of its top officials have worked for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or government-sponsored institutions.
The NRDC maintains a close working relationship with President Biden's administration. The NRDC's former president, Gina McCarthy, served as Biden's climate czar up from January 2021 until earlier this month. Current president, Manish Bapna, has attended at least two White House meetings, visitor logs reviewed by Fox News Digital show...
"LONDON — The Bank of England will suspend the planned start of its gilt selling next week and begin temporarily buying long-dated bonds in order to calm the market chaos unleashed by the new government’s so-called “mini-budget.”
"WITH A HURRICANE APPROACHING FLORIDA, A FRIEND WRITES:
"Cayler Ellingson’s alleged killer not under house arrest, no curfew after posting ‘very low’ bond: court docs.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds
