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31+ min ago (101+ words) John Philip Sousa's band gave patriotic marches and the sousaphone a place in history. "Stars and Stripes Forever': The Man Behind America's National March NR | 1h 30m | Drama | 1952 Marching bands once led armies into battle centuries ago. But as navies and air forces grew, many bands outgrew the need of telling infantry or cavalry units when to advance, retreat, and such. "Beneath Sheep's Clothing': Communism's Capture of America Why Anti-Communism Still Matters'and What This Film Gets Right "The Promised Land': Humanizing (and Humorizing) the Hebrews "Country Doctor': A Profession and Vocation...

31+ min ago (101+ words) John Philip Sousa's band gave patriotic marches and the sousaphone a place in history. "Stars and Stripes Forever': The Man Behind America's National March NR | 1h 30m | Drama | 1952 Marching bands once led armies into battle centuries ago. But as navies and air forces grew, many bands outgrew the need of telling infantry or cavalry units when to advance, retreat, and such. "Beneath Sheep's Clothing': Communism's Capture of America Why Anti-Communism Still Matters'and What This Film Gets Right "The Promised Land': Humanizing (and Humorizing) the Hebrews "Country Doctor': A Profession and Vocation...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago (34+ words) Did President Donald Trump tell Japan's prime minister not to provoke Beijing over Taiwan's sovereignty? The Wall Street Journal says yes; Japan says no. ... Japan Denies Report on Trump-Takaichi Phone Call...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago (784+ words) David Stockman's Contra Corner Annual Rate Of Change, Q4 2024 to Q2 2025: For want of doubt, here is a review of the major fiber-optic suppliers and related telecom equipment companies that were central to the dot-com era's investment boom and which also experienced bubble-scale stock price surges'only to crash spectacularly between 20002002. These firms supplied fiber cables, networking gear and infrastructure for the internet backbone. Nortel Networks'was a key player in fiber-optic networking gear and telecom infrastructure. Its market cap reached $400 billion in 2000 based on peak annual revenues of$30 billion, again implying a still absurd market cap-to-revenue ratio of13X. By the time of its bankruptcy filing in 2009, when its assets were mostly liquidated, revenues haddropped by 92%to $2.4 billion. Ciena Corporation'.. supplied optical networking systems for long-haul fiber networks. The company's stock hit $151 per share in 2000 and then fell to less than $5 by 2002 on the back…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago (524+ words) Either the Zionist Jewish Lobby aka the Deep State owns the President and Congress, or they are both just being paid off. The purpose of all my papers is to inform people of the truth and give them the information to correct the problems before we go into a death spiral. But how do you inform Communists (citizens) in the inner cities that the insurrections they participate in will leave them starving in the streets with no one willing or able to deliver them sustenance? This population is ignorant of the facts, and there is no way to inform them. They must learn from experience and the tuition is exorbitant'starvation and death. Don't ask about the unelected Bureaucrats in the Administrative State. No one controls them, they think the government is theirs, and they just steal and do what they…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago (399+ words) By Eric S. Margolis President Donald Trump threatens to hang military officers who have the audacity to tell their troops not to obey unlawful orders. Trump called them "traitors" and suggested they be locked up. The president just crossed the Rubicon. Formerly his language was amusing TV banter. Now, after these threats, he has gone way too far. Americans should be alarmed. I enlisted in the US Army in 1969 to become an infantry officer and served in Vietnam. At the time, I foolishly thought this colonial war was just part of our American way of life. In basic and advanced infantry training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, we were educated in the military code of conduct, the legal system underlying the conduct of soldiers. The most important single lesson that I vividly recall was the order to refuse any orders seen…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago (30+ words) Comments open on YouTube The post One of America's Biggest Gold Wholesalers Exposes the Most Common Gold Scam Enslaving the Country appeared first on LewRockwell. Comments open on YouTube...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago (257+ words) By Adam Dick The Ron Paul Institute The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) was patting itself on the back with gusto last week in publicizing it is prosecuting alleged drug kingpin Zhi Dong Zhang upon his extradition from Mexico. The prosecution is a really big deal in the US government's effort to win the war on drugs according to the assertions of several government employees in the DOJ'press release. In reality, the hoopla is just more "blah, blah, blah" in support of a destructive drug war that continues to cause much harm while failing to achieve its stated objectives including the reduction of drug use and threats to safety. The path to a better America, concluded Hornberger, is to dispense with the whole drug war. It is also, wrote Hornberger, the path to getting rid of drug lords and…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago (619+ words) Unfortunately, both of these efforts at hijacking the holiday for political battles refuse to go away.Fortunately,it appears that the vast majority of Americans don't care, and most plan to enjoy the holiday in the way it has been enjoyed for about 150 years: as a celebration on domestic life and economic prosperity. The Evolution of Thanksgiving As a holiday, Thanksgiving has gone through several different forms. As described in James Baker's study of the holiday,Thanksgiving: The Biography of An American Holiday, there had been a variety of Thanksgiving traditions practiced throughout the US, but few of them closely resembled the Thanksgiving we now know today. Moreover, theactivities people adopted to commemorate the holiday changed significantly over time. According to Baker, in the holiday's early years, it served as'the Puritan stand-in for Christmas (a holiday they rejected as noncanonical…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago (253+ words) What Lindsay Gets Right Lindsay argues that a similar pattern has emerged on parts of the Right. He points to'Groypers'and'white identitarians'who imitate the Left's tactics through inverted identity politics and online transgression. The posture they call "based" often amounts, in his view, to boundary pushing for its own sake, a similar defiance that mirrors the Woke Left's obsession with taboo-breaking. Lindsay is not wrong. Some young men on the Right have slid from dark humor to outright hostility. They swarm critics online, demand ideological purity, and treat any challenge to their idols as betrayal. Such behavior is a real problem. Lindsay also warns that the term "anti-Semitism" is now used so broadly that it is losing its meaning. That, he argues, pushes legitimate questions into what he calls the "third rail" (a topic considered too dangerous or taboo to touch)…...