[Powerline] So Haiti is back in the news. As I mentioned yesterday, I thought the Clinton Foundation had fixed the place! Or Colin Powell in the 1990s. Or something. How soon until Biden sends in American troops? Or lets 500,000 Haitians come to America?
Anyway, Haiti is in the state of nature right now, with gangs and mobs rampaging. And yet, as a smart left-leaning friend of mine (I do have a few of those—opposition research) points out, the murder rate in Haiti is lower than many American cities:
Table of our Top 25 can be seen at the link — eighteen of them more than Haiti’s 41/100,000.
[American Thinker] On Sunday, the Armed Forces Press reported that West Point brass had made a recent decision to "update" the academy’s Mission Statement, which until that point, read as such:
To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army.
With the approved revisions, West Point’s official mission now reads:
To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corp of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation.
As you can see, the sacred and "hallowed" words, recognized as the official motto of the school since before even Douglas MacArthur graduated in 1903, have been jettisoned—into the Memory Hole "Duty Honor Country" goes!
John A. Lucas is a former special operations military member with more than 45 years experience as an attorney who now runs the Bravo Blue blog; and yesterday, Lucas reported that an officer to whom he spoke "emphasized that the change was the result of a regular review... to see if any changes were needed to ’modernize’ the statement." As someone pointed out in the comments:
Duty-Honor-Country: Well defined, succinct, timeless.
Army values: Amorphous, indefinite, depends on the whims of the social elite.
Unless the politicization of our armed forces is stopped, and soon, we’ll be singing ’The East is Red’ as our national anthem in short order.
Yet, are you even surprised? Notions like duty, honor, and undying servitude to the people of your country are completely alien to the "modern" political chain of command, landscape, and players; let’s not forget, an American president isn’t just supposed to be some Washington D.C. fixture (especially one who’s not done much else besides jetset around the world on a pay-to-play tour collecting kickbacks), he is the top of the military chain of command too. And, it’s not like the D.C. government genuinely wants officers who believe in the duty, honor, and country in the traditional American sense.
So yes, the longstanding motto is apparently all too enduring, and not at all representative of the "modern" military structure of dereliction, dishonor, and treason—to be abundantly clear, this is specifically directed at the anti-American actors present in our armed forces.
Never has the "reject modernity, embrace tradition" quip been more apropos.
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The academies, reserve officer training corps (ROTC) from colleges, officer candidate school (OCS) from the ranks, and direct commissions which are usually few and done in the cases of doctors, lawyers, and chaplains [who by UCMJ do not have command authority, aka lawful order].
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I am a USNA grad. I think this initiative is intended to bring service academy academics in line with places like Harvard. Too many cadets were submitting their own work.
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^ Ow!
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Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland recommended the following motto: “To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation.”
“[O]ver the past year and a half, working with leaders from across West Point and external stakeholders, we reviewed our vision, mission, and strategy to serve this purpose. We believe our mission binds the Academy to the Army — the Army in which our cadets will serve,” Gilland said.
“Our updated mission statement focuses on the mission essential tasks of Build, Educate, Train, and Inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character, with the explicit purpose of being committed to the Army Values and Ready for a lifetime of service,” he added.
“The Army Values include Duty and Honor, and Country is reflected in Loyalty, bearing truth faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other Soldiers. In the past century, West Point’s mission has changed nine times. Many graduates will recall the mission statement they learned as new cadets did not include the motto, as Duty, Honor, Country was first added to the mission statement in 1998.”
[PJ] It doesn't take a master's degree in economics to understand that prices are up in every sector of the economy. The economy under Joe Biden is nickel-and-diming us at every turn, and Americans can see past the smoke and mirrors that the White House is using to try to convince us that everything is fine.
The federal government's measure of price increases, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has consistently shown that inflation isn't going away. The most recent CPI report indicates a 3.2% increase in prices from Feb. 2023 to Feb. 2024. That's a significant increase, but it only shows the increase over a rolling 12 months.
To get a clearer picture of what Bidenflation looks like, we need to compare prices between now and when Biden took office. That's what TIPPinsights did, and the results show you that Bidenflation isn't just worse than the White House wants you to believe — it's worse than you might have realized.
"We developed the TIPP CPI, a metric that uses February 2021, the month after President Biden's inauguration, as its base to measure the rate of change," TIPPinsights explains. "All TIPP CPI measures are anchored to the base month of February 2021, making it exclusive to the economy under President Biden's watch."
The rationale is that a year-over-year comparison looks at current prices next to already inflated prices, which masks the effect of inflation over time. The TIPP CPI measures Bidenflation as a whopping 18%. TIPPinsights broke down various sectors of the economy in a similar way that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does in its CPI.
[American Thinker] Does anyone remember the pipe bombs planted near the DNC and RNC on January 6, 2021, when the Electoral College voted to confirm the BidenDemolitioncrat theft of the 2020 election? Many questions remain about this incident.
1.) Why was Kamala at the DNC building, rather than at the Capitol rejoicing in her Coronation as VP? No explanation ever!
2.) Why were all three security cameras always focused on the DNC building turned away "just in time" to avoid video of the placing of the "bomb"?
3.) Why were Capitol Police dispatches concerning the pipe bomb moved to Channel 3 and remain hidden from the public and Congress?
4.) Why did Secret Service agents and D.C. police mill about the SW side of the DNC building near the "bomb"?
5.) Why were teenagers allowed to walk past the bomb site?
6.) Why were several commuter trains headed to and from Union Station allowed to pass dangerously close to the DNC building while the bomb was in place?
This nonchalance is irreconcilable with the fact that "shrapnel travels at 18,000 to 23,000 feet per second, endangering anyone near the explosion, unless, for some reason, there was no reason to be concerned." (Epoch Times, March 6-12, P 9A)
When Robinson Crusoe saw footprints in the sand, he knew there was another human on the island. Circumstantial evidence leads to irresistible inferences beyond reasonable doubt on which people have been imprisoned and executed.
The conduct of authorities at the "bomb scene" leads to the conclusion that everyone involved knew the "bomb" was a hoax. The reason for the "bomb hoax" is as plain as the nose on my face -- a "Back-Up Plan" in the event ANTIFA, BLM, the CIA, and the FBI failed to incite a riot on January 6, 2021.
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i'm surprised they didn't have a Trump impersonator plant the bomb sometime before Trumps speech. Look up at the camera (with resolution unsuitable for truly accurate recognition) and then hours later blow up the bomb.
[Blaze] Republican U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (Ga.) on Wednesday told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck the reason the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice may be going after Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker over his Jan. 6, 2021, coverage is because "he's onto something" the federal government wants kept under wraps.
What are the details?
During his radio show interview with Loudermilk, Beck brought up Tuesday's news about GOP House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan opening an investigation into the DOJ over Baker's March 1 arrest and "demanding all of the documents and [internal] communication ... to know why this guy was treated differently than the New York Times. Are we gonna find anything on this? Nobody believes that any of this is gonna change a darn thing, which is frightening, quite honestly."
Loudermilk — who chairs the House Oversight Subcommittee — replied that he can anticipate the FBI will say "this is an active investigation, so we can't provide you with anything." But the congressman added that "potentially one of the reasons that they've done this is so certain information that [Baker] was working on can't be subpoenaed or ... provided to Congress. That's one theory of why they've gone after [Baker] and not the [other journalists] — because he was onto something. Look, my dad, a World War II veteran, used to to tell me all the time ... you took the most incoming fire when you were over the target."
Loudermilk added that the federal government's treatment of Baker "is a red flag to me" that "he's onto something."
Beck then shifted to an upcoming analysis Baker has been working on — one Loudermilk is familiar with — that Beck said could turn out to be "one of the worst things." Indeed, if Baker's investigation shows it's true, Beck said, "I think it's regime-changing. And I use the word 'regime' intentionally."
"I agree with you on that," Loudermilk replied. "People don't go to these extreme measures to cover up something that isn't real."
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Skipping over the CIA affiliated reporter to selectively prosecute Steve Baker is a strong demonstration of a 1st Amendment violation but not in the DC Circuit. The intimidating leg shackles is a chef’s kiss to the totalitarian tactic. The punishment includes sapping all his resources through lawfare. To me, that doesn’t indicate desperation; it indicates that they no longer care to hide their corruption.
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Don't forget the intentional choice of two black EFFBEYE agents, the perp walk, the leg shackles and the belly chain to the table at the arraignment, for a series of misdemeanors! This was theater, and symbolism by the new aristocracy!
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[ColonelCassad] The WikiLeaks website reveals the mechanism for creating opposition leaders: We bring to our readers a translation of the podcast “WikiLeaks reveals how the United States financed Alexei Navalny* and how Washington is using his death,” hosted on the New Atlas channel by host Brian Berletik.
[PJMedia] The corruption of the Democrats—particularly those in the Biden administration—seems to know no bounds.
Here are just a few things they have their hearts set on:
Remaking the Supreme Court
Jailing Donald Trump, keeping him off the ballot, and bankrupting him and his family
Spying on conservative Americans, treating them as terrorists
Banning voter ID
Using lawfare as their preferred political strategy
Importing millions of illegals
Censoring free speech
Getting rid of the Electoral College
Destroying conservative media.
And those are just the ones we know about. It's all designed to ensure a permanent Democrat (read: leftist) government and ruling class. They want the rubes in flyover country to have no say in our government and to be marginalized (or jailed) out of existence — especially the ones who wear MAGA hats.
Expect it to escalate as the 2024 election nears.
The Left is desperate to beat Donald Trump in 2024, and there's no telling what they're capable of at this point.
Here are just a few of the stories we've recently covered that demonstrate how the Left is working overtime to destroy our great country:
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This is a complex question:
Politically no, but this depends on how you veiw the politicians "use" of the system.
Culturally yes, this is a looser aspect of americanism, because many americans come from different cultural backgrounds, but the erosion of those common cultural markers that bind a people, i.e., common idea of your own history, are corrupted
ideologically yes, this is critical as american self-definition derives from embracing american ideals, the destruction of the family unit, loss of religion, etc are all reinforcing elements in the ideology and they are going going ...
Add to that the first time America has been threatened by a near peer enemy we are economically bound with while struggling through this, no bueno.
We are in and have been in a war for a while for at least a decade or so. It is a war for the individual American. It is spiritual, it is mental, it is physical, it is all around and it is real. 5th generation war. Throw out your old concept of war and ask yourself: How do you win/lose a war and never fire a bullet?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Blaze] Republican U.S. Rep. 
