by Dave Patterson | Jan 10, 2024 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
On Monday, Jan. 8, Defense Department spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder took the podium to speak to the Pentagon press corps about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his secret absence from duty. The brief was intended to clarify why his hospitalization was kept...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 10, 2024 | Business News, Opinion, Swamponomics
It’s official. The national debt is now over $34 trillion, meaning the US government borrowed approximately $2.65 trillion during the last year. It took the United States more than 200 years to cross the $1 trillion mark; today, it takes only a few months to...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 9, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Ever so deliberately, with a growing sense of relentless inevitability, China is replacing the US as the influencer in the Middle East. Beijing is not the least bit coy regarding its intentions. Together with the Iran-aligned countries, the People’s Republic of...
by Graham J Noble | Jan 9, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
For the first time in a very long time, a Democrat candidate for president finds himself having to go the extra mile to shore up support among black voters. To that end, Joe Biden traveled to South Carolina on Jan. 8, where he delivered a speech from the Mother...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
As the ramifications sink in regarding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s decision to keep his recent hospitalization a secret, questions of the worst kind are arising. When the story first broke about Austin being in Walter Reed National Medical Center’s...