Author Archives: Holmes Oliver

Ukraine and the Elections

The outcome of our November elections will influence the course of the war in eastern Europe, and the war will influence the outcome of our elections. I suspect that within the next six weeks, Russian advances and Ukrainian losses could … Continue reading

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Election Season

First Item: Julie Kelly says (Kamala Harris’ Likely Pick for Attorney General: Matthew Graves (declassified.live) that Kamala will likely pick Matthew Graves as her Attorney General; Second Item: Leading Democrat Kelley Robinson says people should “reimagine freedom and democracy beyond the … Continue reading

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Russians Strike

Some folk anticipated a big airstrike against targets inside Ukraine for Saturday the 23rd of August, that being a sort of independence celebration day (the ‘sort of’ is deserved, BTW). The attack came Sunday (yesterday), and as of this post, … Continue reading

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Israel Strikes

The Israeli Defense Forces just struck what early news reports claim to be “thousands” of targets to preempt a Hezbollah aerial attack against Israel. News about the engagement has been sparse. That absence of reports and opinions all by itself … Continue reading

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Auto-exhaustion?

After a brief summer pause, we’re gonna get back on track here at Liberty Bristles. Let’s start with the war in Ukraine. This month the Ukrainian regime made a bold move. It attacked into Russia with some of its best … Continue reading

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The Defense of Israel

Now seems like a good time to take a chance and to make a prediction. This is a Sunday afternoon, and the newsfeeds say that Iran could launch some kind of a direct military attack on Israel as early as … Continue reading

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Let’s Talk about “The Press”

On the Long Prompts page, I’ll put a conversation I recently had with ChatGPT about the press. I’m pretty sure, after donning a small hat over my little Constitutional Scholar brain thing, that “of the press” refers to a category … Continue reading

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Deep State Passive Voice

Annoying as hell, the passive voice as an impunity finesse might seem like one of those tiny constant bothers, like the Do Not Disturb tag constantly falling off the room lever. It is not a good thing, but it can … Continue reading

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Maybe Ignorant

OK, today, Geoff Demarest made an idle comment on the Willy OAM site Russian Troops Tunnel Under UA Lines – CRITICAL Area Under THREAT – Ukraine War Map Update News (youtube.com) Here is what he posted: “Great job, again, Willy. … Continue reading

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PoliSci Sucks

Political Science is a detrimental academic discipline. Many reasons why, so let’s start cataloging the ways. Maybe we can together destroy PoliSci and make every good person who has a PoliSci degree feel ashamed and want desperately to go replace … Continue reading

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