Category Archives: Strategy

Risk Distance and the Vantasner Danger Meridian

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

We decided to binge-watch the television series “Patriot.” The show introduced, as one of its unifying themes, a thing called the ‘Vantasner Danger Meridian.’  After not finding enough about it on plain old Google, I figured I’d talk it up with ChatPGT-4.  … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be a Climate Denier

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Don’t let them label you a skeptic, either. That’s just another syntactical ploy to steer away from the truth of the matter. Be an accuser. Be a punisher. Climate alarm and carbon-blaming is a theft scheme, a fraud, a scam, … Continue reading →

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Ukraine Opinion Update

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

My relatively ignorant uninformed take: Darkening prospects for the survival of Ukraine. Slow, grinding, accelerating Russian progress all along the front. The Ukrainians have done amazingly well in slowing the advance. The Ukrainians have mounted a combination of competent coup … Continue reading →

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Israeli and World Geography

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

I offer this small geographic note to any among my legion of fans who might for whatever reason find themselves in a friendly, open, intellectual exchange regarding the country of Israel and its future. I ask that you begin your … Continue reading →

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On the War for America in 2025

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Geoff Demarest

Tip to Citizen Free Press and X. (8) End Wokeness on X: “All hell breaks loose at an airport in Paris as illegals try to stop a deportation: https://t.co/8sxKK72q0z” / X (twitter.com) The video purportedly shows a group of illegals … Continue reading →

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Things Are Messed Up

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

A couple of news items drag me in today. One is the cargo ship hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore.  Not all details in yet, but already easy to compare to the Ukrainians (with our help I assume) trying time after … Continue reading →

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Journalist Schmernalist

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

The Epoch Times has an article about Steve Baker, journalist arrested for some trumped up somethingorother related to the Jan 6 not-an-insurrection. Steve Baker, on the Jan. 6 Front Lines and in the DOJ’s Crosshairs | The Epoch Times Worth … Continue reading →

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Capacity to Fight

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Geoff Demarest

When making strategy, the capacity to fight (One’s own capacity as well as that of opponents) is a basic, natural consideration. To formalize that consideration a bit — to audit it, practice it, organize it or perhaps to have a … Continue reading →

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Politics is the Killing Machine

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Ivan Welch

At this moment, while you scroll your Devil Brick, or peruse your PC, who can end your life legally? Or at least end your life with impunity. Certainly your doctor who can prescribe life altering drugs that have lethal outcome … Continue reading →

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Foreign Forces

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Carlos Arenas

Todd Bensman (Center for Immigration Studies, Center for Immigration Studies (cis.org)  has an article out in Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College with which many of you are positively familiar. The title of Bensman’s article is “An Immigration Crisis Beyond … Continue reading →

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