January 6, 2023

Putin orders ceasefire for Russian forces in Ukraine

Yesterday, January 5, President Putin ordered a 36-hour ceasefire effective 6 – 7 January for his forces in Ukraine.  This was based on the Orthodox Christian celebration of Christmas on 6 and 7 January in both Russia and Ukraine with Orth...

October 10, 2022

The Biden Administration’s Willful Ignorance About US Nuclear Capabilities

To put it simply, in the current standoff over Ukraine’s territory, Putin has the advantage as far as nuclear threats go. The ongoing brinkmanship there has revealed a serious misunderstanding on the part of some analysts and most of the media ...

August 15, 2022

It’s more than just your emails, Hillary

In the wake of the FBI road on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Hillary Clinton attempted to capitalize on the event by promoting baseball caps and T-shirts with the phrase “But her emails.”  It must be nice to have a friendly Director...

July 2, 2021

Did Biden Really Win California?

The November 3, 2020, Presidential election data from California should set off alarm bells. Election data generated by the natural voting process will closely match Benford’s Law predictions. (Benford’s Law, or the rule of leadin...

June 9, 2021

Was George Gascón Elected by Fraud?

It appears that the election of Los Angeles County District Attorney, George Gascón, on November 3, 2020, was engulfed in substantial, and perhaps irrefutable, fraud. To determine this, I applied standard statistical fraud identification tools...

November 26, 2019

Don't call the anti-Trump leakers 'spies'

In the 1985 movie Spies like Us, two low-level government employees are chosen for a critical secret mission even though they have no training and are mentally and physically unsuitable to be CIA spies.  The reason for this is that the...

February 20, 2018

Russian contractors in Syria test US and rebel forces – and lose big

Russian toughness and determination on the battlefield are legendary, but without operational coordination, modern communications, and fire support, it amounts to little against a well defended position with U.S. advisers and firepower.  Bu...

November 19, 2017

It’s official: US to dominate oil and gas markets

There is an ongoing power shift in the world energy market that is receiving scant attention in the MSM.  The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its annual publication, World Energy Outlook, predicts that the U.S. will dominate the global oil ...

July 31, 2017

Dunkirk: Saving the British Expeditionary Force, but not France

Last week, AT contributor Steve Feinstein wrote about the British Supermarine Spitfire at Dunkirk.  He postulates that Air Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding made the decision to withhold deployment of Spitfires to the continent, feeling they w...

June 13, 2017

Swedish womyn social (justice) workers love refugees – literally

We know the type: aging feminist socialist spinsters who have nothing else to do but make other people's lives miserable with constant multi-cultural rants and harping on the male dominated hierarchy or some such.  So where to find happiness...

May 11, 2017

Ex-military flag officers back Mattis to fight...(wait for it)...climate change

After the Pentagon received marching orders from President Trump to develop a strategy to fight ISIS, you would expect some small public disclosure of unclassified highlights of the plan to gain the confidence of the American people.  But you wo...

February 21, 2017

Lt. Col. Harry Pawlik: A classic American immigrant and hero

The political and economic alliance of open borders leftists and establishment cheap labor profiteers have laid a guilt trip on America and Europe to surrender our sovereignty to refugees who want only to eat away at the structure of the host nation ...

February 1, 2017

Trump to the rescue of Europe?

Two of President Trump’s national security initiatives have far greater strategic import than many realize.  If I am reading the tea leaves correctly, the U.S. may again ride to the rescue of Europe, although in an indirect fashion.  ...

January 28, 2017

Saudi Bin Laden group skates on Mecca crane disaster that killed 110 people

In September of 2015, a huge crane operated by the Saudi Bin Laden Construction Group collapsed in Mecca during severe weather, killing 110 people and injuring 209 others.  After 16 months of investigation and several court hearings, the Ma...

January 25, 2017

Russia becomes the largest oil supplier to China

A quiet Russia-Saudi oil war has broken out over the China market, with implications for the geostrategic relations among the U.S., Russia, and China.  Russia had already exported more oil to China three months running early last year.  It...

January 25, 2017

What was a Democrat US congresswoman doing in Syria last week?

Tulsi Gabbard, a 35-year-old Democrat representative from the state of Hawaii, made a secret fact-finding visit to Damascus this past week.  For security reasons, the exact dates of the trip weren’t published, but the date of the report wa...

January 23, 2017

General Petraeus’s mistress has a new gig

She’s baaack!  I about choked when I saw none other than Paula Broadwell on Fox News’s Sunday Futures show with Maria Bartiromo.  The recipient of unauthorized classified information from Gen. Petraeus and the target of an ...

January 17, 2017

The Intelligence Community Rebellion?

The back and forth of the NSA Director’s unauthorized meeting with Donald Trump, and the deceptive intelligence dossier on Trump’s supposed romp in a Moscow hotel room has spawned the notion at The Conservative Treehouse of a closing act ...

January 17, 2017

Saudi Arabia punishes expat workers for doing their jobs

Let’s say over a year ago that economists expressed the cold, hard truth to the rulers in Saudi Arabia that expat workers meet the demands of the Saudi job market better than Saudi graduates do – so much so that foreigners dominate t...

January 9, 2017

Saudi Arabia’s dependence on foreigners to do the work hits the wall

Saudi Arabia can’t afford all the foreigners it has hired to do the work Saudis refuse to, or can’t, do.  But it is discovering that replacing them with subjects of the king is difficult, or even impossible.  Last April, Saudi A...

December 21, 2016

Air Force One and Trump’s Vision of Military Power

President-elect Trump’s criticism of Boeing and the costs of the new Air Force One aircraft is, I believe, more than just political theater.  If there is anything his business experience has taught Mr. Trump, it’s that getting the mo...

December 14, 2016

The final flight for the F-4 Phantom set for next week

The final flight and retirement ceremony for the venerable F-4 Phantom will be December 21 at Holloman AFB, New Mexico.  The Phantom is still in active service at Holloman with Detachment 1 of the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron. The F-4 f...

December 11, 2016

Hillary loved her some Putin

The current controversy about the CIA’s assessment that Putin and the Russians affected the outcome of the US election is not only another example of manufactured intelligence by elements of Hillary’s Praetorian Guard but is also a person...

December 4, 2016

Ford CEO turns to Trump to help blunt EPA’s regulatory surge

Ford Motor company CEO, Mark Fields, a staunch Trump opponent during the presidential campaign, now wants the President Elect to help with EPA’s surprise decision to keep long term fuel economy targets in place. A mid-term review of corpo...

December 3, 2016

Fort Hood Army sergeant first woman to become a cavalry scout

Even if you’re the type who rejoices at the prospect of women in combat, there are some anomalies that make my nose twitch.  WFAA 8 Dallas reports that Sergeant Kayci Landes has graduated as the Army’s first female cavalry scout, whi...

November 25, 2016

Obama and Hillary’s deception on Syrian WMD revealed

We now know the reason why Obama’s so-called WMD red line in Syria was nothing but bluff and bluster: the ones using chemical agents there were the rebel groups and ISIS in addition to Assad’s forces. When Obama, Hillary, and the congr...

November 22, 2016

Saudi Arabia in arrears to construction contractors

Many understood the huge significance of the revitalization of the U.S. oil industry on the world market, especially impacting the financial position of Saudi Arabia.  In fact, 2015 data according to the CIA Fact Book has the U.S. and the kingdo...

November 2, 2016

Russia, Comey, and Hillary’s Praetorian Guard

The re-opening of the investigation into Hillary’s unsecured email server and associated corruption has produced some interesting counter-attacks from the Clinton camp.  They primarily revolve around a supposed alliance between Russia and ...

September 25, 2016

Hillary staffer left classified document in Russian hotel room

When Hillary chastises Trump for supposedly being allied with Putin or claims that the Russians hacked the DNC email, she should really reflect on her own staff’s actions in aiding and abetting Putin’s intelligence gathering. Russian T...

September 14, 2016

Islamic animal sacrifice goes high-tech

Warning: This is not from The Onion. Are you a devout Muslim worried about completing your Eid al-Adha animal sacrifice?  Are you tired of fighting the crowds to get that goat or lamb you’ve had your eye on since the hajj started?...

September 9, 2016

Saudi Arabia blaming foreigners for shocking incident on national airline

Saudi Arabian Airlines’ (Saudia) inaugural flight of its new A330 was less than memorable when a video revealed that the passengers trashed the aircraft in flight.  AT covered the incident here, with video revealing horrifyingly filthy res...

July 29, 2016

Fighting ISIS: Corsican independence group doing what Hollande refuses to do

Leave it to a militant group to cut through all the politically correct garbage and go right to the heart of the matter when it comes to fighting ISIS.  Euronews reports that a splinter group of the Corsican National Liberation Front h...

July 3, 2016

Russia-Saudi Oil War Underway

In a sign of shifting fortunes in the oil business, Trade Arabia reports that Russia has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the top oil exporter to China. Russia beat out Saudi Arabia as China's largest oil supplier in May, customs data showed on Tue...

April 16, 2016

Saudi Arabia moves to allow foreign workers to gain permanent residency

In a move possibly related to reining in the religious police, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman announced that the Kingdom is proposing a permanent residency program for expatriate workers similar to the US Green Card syst...

February 27, 2016

Judicial Watch granted right to discovery of Hillary’s email server

Judicial Watch has achieved a significant victory in its effort to gain access to Hillary’s “off-grid” email server.  The rationale for the motion for discovery was that Hillary and the State Department have been able to thwart...

January 30, 2016

Who are the spies for the DC power brokers?

As we have learned in the past few days, the FBI has moved from a criminal investigation to an espionage investigation in the Hillary email scandal.  The FBI is now going directly to the source of the classified documents found on Hillary’...

January 28, 2016

Hillary's email scandal now potentially a matter of high treason

Memories of the Walker family spy ring and British double agent Kim Philby could be resurrected if a new angle of the FBI investigation works toward its logical conclusion.  Catherine Herridge of Fox News reports that the FBI is going directly t...

January 27, 2016

Trump on Ending the Crony Capitalism of War

Donald Trump's policy position on the US military has not received much attention during the primary season, but to my knowledge the other candidates’ positions haven’t been highlighted either.  Most of the candidates’ plan...

January 3, 2016

Clinton's Bosnia Adventure Goes South

Since the Gulf War, no one would ever accuse the beltway gang of being astute strategic thinkers.  While the Democrats have not cornered the market in this regard, there’s no doubt the leftist DC establishment have become experts at develo...

December 20, 2015

Saudi Arabia counters Obama's nuclear deal with Iran

Saudi Arabia has furthered its nuclear energy initiative by going with the strong horse.  In this case, Russia's State Corporation for Atomic Energy (Rosatom). The Arab News reports that the head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, stands ready to...

December 4, 2015

Obama and Hillary's lethal Libya legacy and future terror

More and more Americans realize that the administration's Arab Spring movement was simply a front for a massive train-and-equip operation for Islamic radicals – including ISIS.  During Bush '43, strongman Gaddafi was pushed by Oper...

July 18, 2015

Unarmed American troops: another view

Newsmachete’s blog about the DoD regulation restricting the carrying of firearms while not on the front lines correctly points out the absurdity of the anti-gun culture of the Pentagon.  As the author mentions, the key element is trust bet...

June 22, 2015

The Clintons, US Intelligence, and the Great Uranium Follies

Hillary Clinton handing over a sizable portion of US uranium production potential to Russia is not an isolated event, but rather is the logical convergence of decades-old Clinton era dealings with Russia and rogue states, for enrichment of the power ...

May 22, 2015

The usual suspects ride shotgun on Iranian aid ship

When Western radicals who support terrorists and rogue states meet their demise, it’s only sometime after they lose their lives for the cause when we learn about their background and motivations.  Such was the case with Rachel Corrie and K...

July 11, 2014

Bahrain expels US diplomat

Is Obama’s State Department crazy, or just plain stupid?  Last Sunday, US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski met with senior members of the Al-Wefaq group, Bahrain’s leading opposition m...

June 5, 2014

Qatar and the Taliban prisoner swap

Brendan Thomas is correct: no sane American would think that Obama and company were strategic masterminds in the Great Game.  Allying with the tiny gulf nation of Qatar by sending the Taliban prisoners there seems no more than giving a boost to ...

May 29, 2014

UN Inspectors in Syria Attacked by... Who?

One cannot be sure of the ground truth in war-ravaged Syria, but if this report is correct, then the rebels have just cemented their reputation as a bunch of heavily armed and dangerous amateurs. According to the BBC, an Organization for the...

May 16, 2014

Iran nuclear deal alienating Saudis and Gulf emirates

While negotiating from a point of weakness and reconciliation to counter Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Obama administration has all but ignored an important and beneficial geo-strategic coalition for over five years: the Gulf Cooperation Counci...

May 6, 2014

The Fast and Furious Red Herring

The disappearing act known as the congressional Fast and Furious investigation made a brief return to the stage recently when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder became unhinged during questioning by Representative Louis Gohmert (R). The trigger for hi...