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Biden: Ineffective Houthi Strikes to Continue

| January 19, 2024 | 27 Comments
Biden: Ineffective Houthi Strikes to Continue

Biden says US strikes against Houthi rebels will continue By Zeke Miller and Aamer Madhani Editor’s note: This story was updated at 6:30 p.m. EST with additional information. U.S. forces on Thursday conducted a fifth strike against Iranian-backed Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen as President Joe Biden acknowledged that the American and British bombardment […]

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Trump White House didn’t know military from civilian?

| January 19, 2024 | 17 Comments
Trump White House didn’t know military from civilian?

Seems the White House Medical Unit didn’t know who was eligible care for what care – or didn’t care. Under the Trump administration, the White House Medical Unit — a joint Defense Department team that provides medical care for the president, vice president and family members and also manages health services for certain high-level officials […]

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Say it ain’t so, Joe, and Rooshian AWACs

| January 18, 2024 | 13 Comments
Say it ain’t so, Joe, and Rooshian AWACs

You have to love how often the pols of today have to eat crow for what they said yesterday. We just recently saw where Joe Biden called out the need for border security when he was running for office… apparently since then he has changed his mind. Or forgotten which border. Or forgotten what a […]

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FAA Hires the Best and Brightest

| January 15, 2024 | 44 Comments
FAA Hires the Best and Brightest

FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities FAA says people with ‘severe’ disabilities are most underrepresented segment of federal workforce By Emma Colton The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity […]

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Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard

| January 12, 2024 | 24 Comments
Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard

Force Alignment Initiative? Hampton Roads braces for effects of Coast Guard’s temporary deactivation of units amid staffing shortages By CAITLYN BURCHETT Coast Guard units will be temporarily deactivated in a consolidation this year as the service grapples with one of the largest workforce shortages in its history. What this means for Hampton Roads — home […]

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Creativity in government

| January 12, 2024 | 4 Comments
Creativity in government

Remember the American Rescue Plan Act in 2022? ARPA was supposed to help states recover from Covid. $350,000,000,000 worth of what many  said would become a boodle for the favored. Thank goodness it would all end soon, the money had to be all spent by the end of 2024. But the Biden administration quietly changed […]

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Leaderless DoD… and we never noticed

| January 8, 2024 | 50 Comments
Leaderless DoD… and we never noticed

As was mentioned in the comments a couple of days ago, seems Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized after elective surgery last week, and was non compos mentis unavailable from Monday through Thursday. Whatever the operation was supposed to have done, apparently it became serious enough to keep him out of action until Friday. Deputy […]

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Wesley Clark Questions Iran Policy

| January 3, 2024 | 35 Comments
Wesley Clark Questions Iran Policy

He said ‘escalate’ After his NATO Supreme Allied Commander gig Clark went full hard left into politics with a couple unsuccessful runs at the White House in 2004 and 2008, then backing Dem luminaries John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama respectively. Clark stated that he decided he was a Democrat because “I was pro-affirmative […]

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