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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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Email from a missionary friend who evacuated from Ukraine: Dear friends and family members, Greetings from Budapest. Thanks for your faithful prayers for Ukraine and for us. We are living day-to-day here in Hungary, just doing what we can to help ...

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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EMail from a missionary friend who evacuated from Ukraine.

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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Reddit: A short production of the former Navy Seals sniper instructor Brandon Webb about the cooperation and brotherhood of the Polish GROM unit and the American Seals unit in Iraq and Afghanistan. (13:08)

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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Reddit: A short production of the former Navy Seals sniper instructor Brandon Webb about the cooperation and brotherhood of the Polish GROM unit and the American Seals unit in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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Newsweek: Finnish lawmaker, pastor charged with hate speech walk free. I found this article on MxM News--a new app without media bias or censorship. Download it here:

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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WarOnTheRocks: Is Russia's Invasion A Case Of Coercive Diplomacy Gone Wrong?

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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StrategyPage: Intelligence: Battlefield Treasures In Ukraine. March 31, 2022: Ukrainian forces have captured a lot of modern Russian weapons and military equipment and made these discoveries available to Western countries that are supplying Ukraine ...

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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StrategyPage: Information Warfare: Psyops In Ukraine. March 31, 2022: Ukraine is winning the battles against the Russian invaders but has not yet won the information war. This is not just about Psyops (Psychological Warfare Operations) on the ...

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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NYTimes: Bobcats With a Taste for Python Eggs Might Be the Guardians of Florida’s Swamp.

Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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SandBoxx: What can artist’s renderings tell us about the NGAD fighter? Video about the NGAD fighter.

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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WSJ: Behind the Front Lines, Russia’s Military Struggles to Supply Its Forces.

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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WashExaminer: Ukraine Choppers Strike Oil Depot Inside Russia.

Learning from Christ

Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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HillFaith: Meet the Kinesins, Your Body’s On-Time Cellular Supply Chain Trucking Fleet.

The New Space Race

Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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SpaceNews: Virgin Orbit looks beyond satellite launch for growth opportunities.

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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NYPost: It's Not Just Russia: America has a problem speaking truth to power, too. American intelligence officials are saying Putin's top officials have been lying to him. Thing is, the hide-the-bad-news dynamic is growing by leaps and bounds ...

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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PJMedia: Why Is Everybody Ganging Up on Poor Hunter Biden? In olden times priests would don robes, sacrifice birds, examine the entrails and then mutter dark sayings about the future. Then in the Cold War we would examine who stood by whom on ...

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Apr 1, 2022Apr 2022

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TaskAndPurpose: Ukraine War, Stalemate Or Checkmate? (17:29)

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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PJMedia: Was the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Created to Save a President's Political Hide?

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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ThrRecord.Media: Intelligence community gears up for surveillance powers renewal.

Learning from Christ

Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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WorldNetDaily: NYC mayor fires black, female 'hate pastor.

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 31 Mar 31, 2022 - Press ISW Mason Clark, George Barros, and Karolina Hird March 31, 6:00 pm ET Ukrainian forces conducted several local counterattacks around Kyiv, in northeastern ...

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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APNews: UK spy chief says Russian soldiers disobey orders in Ukraine. Jeremy Fleming, who heads the GCHQ electronic spy agency, made the remarks at a speech in the Australian capital Canberra.

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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TownHall: KurtSchlichter: People Are Getting Tired of One-Way Tolerance. There was a time not long ago when even the most based conservative was willing to live and let live with all manner of divergent and bizarre people, but live and let live ...

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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DefenseOne: General Tod Wolter, SAUCER, testifies before Congress. Russia has fired multiple hypersonic missile at yergets in Ukraine. Ukraine says it needs 500 Javelins a day. Russia's heavy investment in reactive armor hasn't paid off....

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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PostMillenial: CNN’s New Streaming Service Plans Layoffs as Network Learns No Sane Individual Would Pay to Watch CNN.

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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ForeignDeskNews: Russia Accuses U.S. of Massive ‘Cyber Aggression’.

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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PJMedia: RaymondIbrahim: It's Not A Phobia When They Really ARE Trying To Kill You.

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 30 Mason Clark, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko March 30, 5:30 pm ET Russia is withdrawing some elements of its forces around Kyiv into Belarus for likely redeployment to other ...

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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WaPo: David Ignatias Interviews the Commandant of the Marine Corps. (29 minutes).

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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RedState: Biden Demonstrates Just How Much the WH Is Lying About Him.

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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YahooNews: Ukraine Appears to be Shelling Russian Base. Explosions and evacuations were reported by Russian news agencies. Secondary explosions indicate ammunition was hit (and was likely the target). I've seen multiple reports about ...

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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TownHall: If the FBI Is Broken, How Do We Fix It?

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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TownHall: SalenaZito: In 72 Hours...

The History Corner

Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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The-Past: Records of the pyramid builders: discovering eye-witness accounts of a legendary construction project.

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Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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LidBlog: Too Much Lake Water is Climate Change, Not Enough Lake Water is Climate Change.

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Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 28. Mason Clark and George Barros March 28, 4:30pm ET Ukrainian forces recaptured Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 28. Ongoing Ukrainian counterattacks around Kyiv will likely ...

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Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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WarOnTheRocks: 27Mar22: A New Phase of the Ukrainian War Begins. (33 minutes) Russian thrusts on Kyiv not advancing. Russians slowly advancing in the Donbass. Casualties are hard to estimate, but are heavy.

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Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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StrategyPage: Electronic Weapons in Ukraine: A Failure To Communicate. March 28, 2022: Russian forces invading Ukraine are at a disadvantage for many reasons, including inadequate or absent military radios. While Western military radios have been ...

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Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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Forbes: Biden’s Commitment For US LNG To Supply Europe Faces Strong Headwinds. Heads of US LNG industry say Biden hasn't talked to them about supplying Europe. The kindest description I can use is that this is Biblical management (the left ...

Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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Space.com: Astrophotographer spots spacewalking astronauts from the ground (photo).

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Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

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StrategyPage: Russian Logistics: Starved Of Mobility and Protection. March 28, 2022: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine turned into an embarrassing (for Russian leaders) failure because the Russians were unable to supply their forces while the ...

The New Space Race

Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

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UPI: All-private Axiom mission to ISS could launch as early as April .

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Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

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RealClearPolitics: New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud. New research is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed economics journal Public Choice it finds evidence of around 255,000 excess votes (possibly as many as 368,000) ...

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Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 28. Mason Clark and George Barros March 28, 4:30pm ET Ukrainian forces recaptured Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 28. Ongoing Ukrainian counterattacks around Kyiv will likely ...

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Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

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RealClearDefense: Are the Marines Right? Is it time to get rid of tanks? Knightly armored cavalry was supreme in European battlefields for centuries. Then came the English with their professional longbowmen. And then the Swiss pikemen. And then ...

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Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

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Creators: WayneAllenRoot: The Three Worst Words for Liberals, America Haters and Mainstream Media: Trump Is Back!

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Mar 28, 2022Mar 2022

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Twitter: Biden's pumped up about our pain at the pump.

The New Space Race

Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

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SpaceNews: FAA delays completion of SpaceX environmental review for a third time. If the Wright brothers or Lindbergh had to apply to the FAA, we'd still be crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower.

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Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

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CoffeeOrDie: INTERVIEW WITH A UKRAINIAN MIG-29 PILOT.

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Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

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AmGreatness: Of Boiling Water and Jumping Frogs. COVID has lost its savor. New gambits must be devised to cow the public. “Climate change” and green energy are hardy perennials, but the economic devastation wrought by their advocates has ...

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Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

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Hoover.org: Tearing Down the Wall. Writing Reagan's " Tear Down that Wall" speech and struggling to get it past the State Department.

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Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 27. Mason Clark March 27, 4:30 pm ET Russian forces have not abandoned efforts to reconstitute forces northwest of Kyiv to resume major offensive operations, and the commander of ...

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Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

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there's an old joke about a conference where a US general brags about feeding his soldiers 3x as many calories per day as the Russians. A Russian general replies "Is impossible! No man can eat 3 sacks of potatoes in single day!"

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Mar 27, 2022Mar 2022

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Prove You're Not a Russian Robot...

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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BusinessInsider: Putin will soon have 'no choice' but to stop his invasion of Ukraine, former US general says. Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely be forced to bring his failing monthlong war against Ukraine to a halt, Kevin Ryan, a ...

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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BabylonBee: With Babylon Bee Off Twitter, Users Forced To Get Fake News From CNN.

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 26 Fredrick W. Kagan and George Barros Russian forces continued their unsuccessful efforts to move into positions from which to attack or encircle Kyiv, claims by First Deputy Chief of ...

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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MEMRI.org: Editor Of Saudi Daily: 'Biden Is Becoming A Master At Losing Friends And Alienating Allies'. Everyone Harmed By The Current Oil Crisis Should Realize Biden's Foreign Policy Is Responsible For Their Plight

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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No-Pasaran.blogspot.com: Russian Exile Khodorkovsky: "You have to understand that Mr Putin, in his head, has long been at war not with Ukraine, but with America"

The New Space Race

Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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StrategyPage: Roscosmos Dies In Ukraine. ULA is dying as well. March 26, 2022: Economic disruptions created by the current Russian invasion of Ukraine had some beneficial effects. Two examples are the accelerated demise of the American ULA (United ...

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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Twitter: DeSantis list some of the smut Leftists want in school libraries.

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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NYTimes: Wagner Group Deploying to Ukraine to Take On Greater Role in War.

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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WaPo: The rise of the Twitter spies. OSINT, Open Source Intelligence has grown to be enormously important.

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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Tank Identification Chart

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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HotAir: Confirmation of a quiet Kremlin Purge. Russian military leaders not picking up the phone when U.S. counterparts call.

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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HotAir: Did Russia Just Give Up on Capturing Kyiv?

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: UKRAINE CONFLICT UPDATE 19. Institute for the Study of War, Russia Team with the Critical Threats Project, AEI March 25 The ISW Russia team's Ukraine Conflict Update is a semi-weekly synthetic product covering key political ...

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 25. Mason Clark, Fredrick W. Kagan, and George Barros The Russian General Staff issued a fictitious report on the first month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on March 25 claiming ...

Learning from Christ

Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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TheSun: Tiny Hebrew ‘curse amulet’ including name of God uncovered by archaeologists. archaeologist Dr. Scott Stripling unveiled what he believes to be the earliest proto-alphabetic Hebrew text ever discovered in ancient Israel, according to ...

Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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Nothing Tows Like A Deere!

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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Creators: MichaelBarone: Another Party Hack President.

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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SandBoxx: RUSSIA’S WARFARE DOCTRINE IS FAILING IN UKRAINE.

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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Twitter: Ice T had a brilliant joke about gas prices.

Victor Davis Hanson

Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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PJMedia: VDH: The Real 'Reset' Is Coming.

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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PJMedia: Jobless Claims Hit 52-Year Low, but There's More to the Story. Jobless claims fell by 28,000 to 187,000 for the week ending March 19, the lowest since September of 1969, the Labor Department reported Thursday,” the Associated Press ...

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 24. Clark, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko Russian forces continue to make slow but steady progress in Mariupol, entering the city center on March 24, but conducted few ...

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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NYTimes: Video Report. Russian attack on a small Ukrainian town. Russians using open, unencrypted radio.

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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Creators: AustinBay: Reviving The Iran Deal Is More Than Another Display of Chronic Biden Ineptitude and Weakness.

Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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ASPIStratigist: Ukraine War May Drive Other Powers to Develop Nuclear Weapons.

Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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19FortyFive: Lack of foreign parts may shutter Russian tank factories.

Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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NYPost: Veteran Kremlin aide Anatoly Chubais flees country over Ukraine war. Unconfirmed reports. Right now he's just one of the Kremlin elites who have disappeared from sight.

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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19FortyFive: The Great Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Has Stalled Out. On day 28 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian forces largely continued to be stalled across Ukraine. Fierce fighting in Mariupol continues as Russian troops are ...

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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TampaFreePress: New McLaughlin Poll Shows Strong Support For 2A After Ukraine Invasion.

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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WendoverProductions: the Failed Logistics of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine. Two weeks ago. (19 minutes)

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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Jeff Dunham, living in a trunk in a basement

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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WaPo: General Berger say Ukrainians "are stripping away the reconnaissance for the Russian forces"

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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RedState: The Ukraine Invasion Has Stalled and Putin's Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff Have Vanished.

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 23. Frederick W. Kagan, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenkq. Russian forces continued to settle in for a protracted and stalemated conflict over the last 24 hours, with more reports...

Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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Federalist: Did The New York Times Admit Joe Biden Is Corrupt So Democrats Can Get Rid Of Him? Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class.

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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Federalist: Did The New York Times Admit Joe Biden Is Corrupt So Democrats Can Get Rid Of Him? Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class.

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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Mirror.co.uk: Vladimir Putin's defence minister 'vanishes with heart problems' as war stalls.

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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WarOnTheRocks: LESSONS FROM THE FIRST TIME RUSSIA ACCUSED THE UNITED STATES OF BIOWARFARE. Russia and China have been accusing the US of biowarfare for seventy years now.

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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ForeignPolicy: ‘The Ukrainians Are Listening’: Russia’s Military Radios Are Getting Owned. General Petraeus mentioned this in one of my previous posts.

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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PJMedia: A Transparent Voting Process That Can't Be Corrupted, Hacked, or Cheated — Democrats Will Hate It.

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 22. Mason Clark, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko March 22, 6:00 pm ET Russian forces did not make any major advances on March 22 and Ukrainian forces conducted local ...

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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DailyCaller: Biden Administration Backtracks On Media Reports Signaling Oil, Gas Leasing Resumption. Administration officials say they're beginning the planning process for resuming the leases. Basically, they're slow walking the process. They ...

The New Space Race

Mar 22, 2022Mar 2022

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ScienceNews: Diamonds may stud Mercury’s crust. Does your sweetheart want that unique present?

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Mar 22, 2022Mar 2022

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UnderstandingWar: WHAT STALEMATE MEANS IN UKRAINE AND WHY IT MATTERS. By Frederick W. Kagan The initial Russian campaign to invade and conquer Ukraine is culminating without achieving its objectives—it is being defeated, in other words. The war ...

The History Corner

Mar 22, 2022Mar 2022

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AllThingsLiberty: A GREAT ENGLISHMAN? BRITISH VIEWS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, FROM REVOLUTION TO RAPPROCHEMENT

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