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The Sussmann indictment and the Alfa Bank saga: A preview of coming attractions
A preview of a Spygate analysis in which planning and foreknowledge are reinforced by the Durham indictment of Michael Sussmann.
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Law and Government
NY Gov. Hochul tells audience unvaxed ‘aren’t listening to God and what God wants’ – UPDATE
Did God really say "Get vaccinated"?
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New angle: FBI informant among those who ‘marched on’ the Capitol on 1/6
Where's the breaching force?
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Things that are not a solution to any public-policy problem
Rethinking the matrix of public policy "solutions."
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Football Follies 2021: NCAA week 3
As "diverse" opponents rule the schedule, a Storied Rivalry takes one more lap.
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Law and Government
FAA imposes flight restrictions over TX bridge where over 10,000 migrants have taken shelter
Effort to silence the news.
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National Security
As feds buckle under border influx, Abbott surges TX forces to shut 6 crossing points; awards contract for border wall
Desperate times, desperate measures.
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In unscripted remarks, Biden blurts out Trump quote about Robert E. Lee from last week
POTUS's unexpected source of cogent utterances.
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Politics
Trump publishes engagement-friendly comments on Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond
Speaking affirmative propositions to reality.
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Foreign Affairs
After an exhausting info warfare deployment, Iranian navy task force purports to be almost home
Denial, deception, decoying.
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Biden and Afghanistan: The unbearable lightness of scapegoating
Mere scapegoating is too small a horizon for the landscape-level understanding we need.
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Foreign Affairs
Inevitably, a pallet of cash makes its appearance in the Afghanistan drama
When you've got a good shtick going.
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National Security
Afghanistan: Air strikes are not a relevant measure to facilitate a successful evacuation
A solution that doesn't fit any problem we have now.
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National Security
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Law and Government
The big ‘known unknown’ of 2020
Known unknowns can't be ignored. Sooner or later, they have to be addressed.
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National Security
In the Afghanistan debacle, it was the execution. Final answer
Slow motion train wreck in plain sight.
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National Security
Afghanistan: It can’t really be incompetence, and other observations
That's some rough beast.
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National Security
U.S. not getting takers to host anti-terrorist ops in Afghanistan from Central Asian nations
Central Asian nations not anxious to become new hosts for U.S. forces.
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National Security
Russia, China holding joint mil exercise; Western and Chinese media characterize it differently
Talking points versus reality in the struggle to define the terms of geopolitics.
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National Security
One (maritime) perspective on U.S. military losing the next fight to China (Part II)
Sampling the parameters of information vulnerability.
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National Security
Another reason a woke U.S. military hunting ‘systemic racism’ will lose the next fight to China (Part I)
Running low on information advantage.
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Law and Government
The most obvious question about the FBI and the Whitmer kidnapping plot
A grave national security threat that couldn't plot straight, without direction from the FBI.
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Politics
Set-up: Senate advances bipartisan infrastructure bill with 17 Republican votes
Not their finest hour.
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Foreign Affairs
Pictures big and bigger: Reported shift in Russia’s air space posture vis-à-vis Israel in Syria
A turn for the worse in some ways, but the larger context may be more promising.
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