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Besides Not Having a SecDef, We Don’t Have Much of a Int’l Red Sea Coalition Against the Houthis, Either – HotAir

In mid-December, almost as soon as our currently ailing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced his soaringly named international coalition of high seas passage defenders… BREAKING: ⚡ 🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. Secretary of Defense General Lloyd Austin will announce a multinational campaign codenamed ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ during his visit to the Middle East next week According to […]

Don’t Run Everything Through the White House – HotAir

Yikes! Barack Obama is so freaked-out with how Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is going that there was a leak in the press that things must change right now. Democrat panic is real, y’all, and everyone is worried that Biden isn’t able to win re-election. During a previously unreported private lunch meeting with Biden, Obama spoke […]

Don’t try to improve us, just entertain us

THE 1970s version of Death on the Nile is one of my favourite comfort films. There is something infectious about the good time Peter Ustinov and David Niven are so obviously having while Angela Lansbury is never less than joyous as she chews the scenery and much of the cast in her portrayal of Salome Otterbourne, the […]

Don’t Nationalize AI. Find a Way to Defeat It. – HotAir

On the subject of the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence and the way it seemed to explode on the world stage in 2023, author and transhumanist Zoltan Istvan has an article at Newsweek this week that offers a lot of food for thought. Rather than focusing on the potential for a robot revolution that overthrows […]

What the modern world can learn from Napoleon, Part 2 – don’t just win the war, win the peace

This is the second of two essays by Lieutenant General Jonathon Riley on the lessons the modern-day world can learn from Napoleon’s successes and ultimate failure. These follow on from his review of Ridley Scott’s historically inaccurate film published on Saturday. Yesterday’s Part 1 examined strategy, past and present. Today’s focuses on the limits of power them and now. ‘IT […]

What I miss about London – and what I definitely don’t

DANIEL Johnson in the Telegraph declares: ‘Benjamin Disraeli observed that London was “a nation, not a city”. Today, 150 years later, many people in Britain feel more disconnected from their own capital than they ever have. Meanwhile, Londoners live in fear that theirs is a condemned city spiralling out of control.’ He continues: ‘Residential areas are increasingly […]