RSS- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
There is a lot of water ice on Mars
" … in late 2016, scientists using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) found a buried ice sheet at Mars’s mid-latitudes that holds about as much water as Lake Superior. But until Dundas’s study, published today in Science, scientists struggled … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Space
23 Comments
TDS will not be entertained on SST
We receive a few proposed comments on SST from leftists who want me to allow them to use SST as a platform for rants against Trump that are based on nothing but their TDS religious beliefs. These will not be … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Ukraine Crisis
53 Comments
Idlib update – 14 january 2017
" This map provides a general look at the current results of the Syrian Army’s advance in eastern Idlib, northern Hama and southern Aleppo. Government forces have liberated a large number of villages in the aforementioned areas and now are … Continue reading
Posted in Borg Wars, Iraq, Middle East, Syria
31 Comments
HARPER: THE ECONOMICS OF DOMESTIC BASE CLOSINGS
In March 2015, the Pentagon asked Congress to establish a new Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC) commission. It would be the fifth time since 1988 that a significant number of domestic military facilities were shuttered. In New York State alone, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
62 Comments
A coupla things …
1. A couple of Border Patrol/ICE people tell me that the US does not effectively charge an entry fee to non-US citizen individuals seeking to enter the US legally across the southern border. The point made by these border and … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Borg Wars, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Russiagate, Syria, Whatever, Yemen
113 Comments
The Trump Dossier Timeline, A Democrat Disaster Looming by Publius Tacitus
When the entire episode about the creation of the Trump dossier (by former Brit spy, Christopher Steele) and its dissemination (by Steele and the Democrat hired contractor, FUSION GPS,) to the FBI and the press, is fully exposed, the American … Continue reading
Posted in Russiagate
113 Comments
Well, no one thought the Turks were subtle … And I like Turks.
"Turkey called on Russia and Iran to pressure the Syrian government to halt a military offensive against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) in the province of Idlib. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East, Syria, Turkey
28 Comments
But, where is Steiner?
Someone asked me how this blitzkrieg across the agricultural lands of the Fertile Crescent is likely to progress. It seems that the SAA and friends now are largely in control of the Abu Duhur town and air base area and … Continue reading
Posted in Syria
24 Comments
“Sterile Chit-Chat” by Richard Sale
“The greatest achievement of human society and one of its rarest pleasures is conversation,” aid Jacque Barzun, an historian who taught at Columbia University when I was there. Today, who believes such a statement to be true? Is conversation … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
54 Comments
A back handed compliment
In this this parody of events in Syria, "Hitler" tells his generals that they are being laughed at by Buzzpineapple and the Turcopole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=CW_VOeMcVWo OK. Now Publius Tacitus has found a utube link to the deleted tweet. pl
Posted in Borg Wars, Humor, Middle East, Syria
32 Comments