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Is It Finally Time To Retire The A-10?

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Lawrence Person

If you’ve been following the A-10 Thunderbolt II (AKA Warthog) saga here, you’ll remember that the Air Force tried to kill the A-10 back in 2015, going so far as to accuse airmen who opposed retiring the A-10 of treason. … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone Very Concerned That Random YouTuber Might Fight The Man

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Rolling Stone has evidently moved on from libeling random lacrosse teams for being gang rapists to writing hit pieces about random YouTubers. Of course, the random YouTuber in this piece, Cody Crone AKA Wranglerstar, has 2.41 million subscribers, meaning he … Continue reading →

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Homeless Repeatedly Break Into Austin Apartment Complex

Posted on August 20, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Austin apartment complex gets repeatedly hit by thieves breaking into apartments and cars night after night. Last year they had repeated transient break-ins through a hole in the fence, and this year two individuals seem to be the same ones … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Weapons Expert Rates Movie Nukes

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Lawrence Person

As I did with tanks, here’s another “expert analyses the realism of Hollywood movies,” this time with nuclear weapons physicist Greg Spriggs on the realism of movie nuke scenes. And yes, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull … Continue reading →

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China Is Screwed: Pipe People

Posted on August 13, 2023 by Lawrence Person

I didn’t intend to do an all “China is Screwed” video roundup weekend, but the videos keep stacking up and I need to post some rather than producing a giant unwieldy post with hours of footage. First up: Young people’s … Continue reading →

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China’s New Enemy: Deflation

Posted on August 12, 2023 by Lawrence Person

I have a whole host of “China is Screwed” videos I’ve gathered to post, but haven’t had the time to properly queue them up. So here’s a big picture piece from Peter Zeihan on China’s immediate economic foe: deflation. “They … Continue reading →

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Russian Optics Factory Goes Boom

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Lawrence Person

No indication yet that this was a Ukrainian rocket attack, drone attack, or even partisan sabotage. But it sounds militarily significant. Local officials in Russia say an explosion at an optical plant in the city of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 … Continue reading →

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Why The SA80 Sucked

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Lawrence Person

On the post about China’s funky military gyrocopter, a discussion of just how bad the British SA80 assault rifle (AKA Enfield L85A1) sucked broke out. And boy did it suck. Almost immediately, the rifles were plagued with problems. The L86A1’s … Continue reading →

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China’s Funky Military Gyrocopter

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Lawrence Person

Of all the weapons China is developing, gyrocopters rank very low among those I’m worried about. In truth, I wasn’t even aware they had them until this video popped up in my feed: The gyrocopter, AKA the autogyro, was a … Continue reading →

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Taibbi: How The Left Lost Its Mind

Posted on July 31, 2023 by Lawrence Person

“It’s as simple as people thought everything was permitted in pursuit of getting rid of Donald Trump.” Taibbi says he wasn’t pushed out of Rolling Stone, he just thought he could make more money by leaving. And he was right! … Continue reading →

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