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Day Of Infamy

Today is the 189th anniversary of the Goliad Massacre. Traces of Texas has the story.

Just a few weeks later, Texians would get their revenge, and their independence, at San Jacinto, an overwhelming victory made possible in part because the Mexican commander was busy dallying with a mullato girl named Emily West when the Texians attacked. For her pivotal, if unintended, role in the victory, Wast was thereafter known as the Yellow Rose of Texas. And now you know.

A Smart Military Blog

Parable of the Shipbuilding Plan

The Navy is awash in studies, all saying roughly the same thing: Not enough—be it warships, logistics, salvage, support, shipyards and workers, naval personnel, ordnance, inventory, or time. The Navy’s sea power problem is not for lack of study, but lack of stuff. To paraphrase former Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Elaine Luria (D-VA), we know what the problems are, and the time for action is now.
This is not to say that, in parallel with action and advocacy, there is not hard intellectual work to be done. However, that is for developing a coherent, competent, and cohesive vision for sea power—not further study of the problem. As Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) and the Center for Maritime Strategy’s retired Navy Admiral James Foggo shout in various forums, the United States still lacks a national maritime strategy. “Rebuilding . . . maritime strength requires a holistic approach, considering the readiness of our entire maritime machinery—infrastructure, workforce, technology, policies, industry, shipping fleets, and sea services. We need our own National Maritime Strategy to pull all these elements together,” Waltz noted.1
But aggressive action on every front should not await a strategy. Whatever that grand national maritime strategy may be, a decade of studies roughly outlines how every component Representative Waltz listed is broken. The Navy could resource or advocate for aggressive expansion of any aspect of shipbuilding, because none is sufficient to meet any future vision for sea power.

The navy badly needs more ships. Build, baby build!

Monster Under The Bed

Babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under child’s bed

A 27-year-old man has been arrested after a Kansas babysitter found him hiding under a child’s bed, police said. At around 10:30 p.m. Monday, the Barton County Sheriff’s Office says a babysitter at a home near Great Bend was putting the children to bed when one of them told her that a monster was under their bed. The babysitter, hoping to comfort the child by showing them there was nothing, looked under the bed and came face-to-face with a man hiding underneath, authorities said. There was an alleged altercation, and the babysitter and a child were knocked over.

Not your traditional under bed monster, but a monster nonetheless.

Wholesome Content

Dirty Laundry

An Assassination Has Ties to California’s Political Elite

In a scene right out of a movie, cars with stolen license plates parked outside a home in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, made famous by BLM rioters when a career criminal was shot during a fight in a train station, and the men inside opened fire on the homeowner. The homeowner grabbed his gun and returned fire. While such sights are not unknown as criminals have taken over the streets in major California cities, this was not a gang drive by, or if it was, the gang in question appeared to have ties to a large network of the area and the entire state’s Democratic Party political establishment including the city’s DA and even the state’s attorney general and possible next governor.

Cali is a shithole.

Personal News

I'm going to be a published author! My friend invited me to submit a story for the second anthology set in his WWIII universe, and it got accepted! Just finished the (hopefully) final round of edits tonight. They're going to pay me for the story and everything. It's kinda cool.

Rogue Courts

Trump’s war against the deep state starts with the courts

We are not a nation of laws, and we never have been. We are a nation of political will, and we always will be.

For more than a generation, the right has either failed or refused to acknowledge this essential truth. Meanwhile, the left has embraced it with unwavering commitment. As a result, it was on the verge of fulfilling Antonio Gramsci’s vision of a “long march through the institutions” — until the 2024 election stopped the left just short of the goal line.

The good news is that after the 2024 election, we’re still in the fight. The bad news? We have 99 yards to march in the opposite direction. Here’s how we got here.

Rogue courts are the real Constitutional crisis.

On Housing

Want Abundance in Housing? Acknowledge that Greed Is Good

To many New Yorkers, the answer is clearly the second. The rising abundance movement is built on the belief that neighborhoods like Windsor Terrace must reject the politics of scarcity and embrace growth and change, even at some personal cost. But while their goals are noble, the challenges they face in places like Windsor Terrace reveal the limits of the project. A politics of “abundance” can never get by on class warfare. If YIMBYs want to succeed, they’ll need to stand behind profit-seeking real-estate developers—the true vanguard of neighborhood change.
Consider the massive gap between the number of existing housing units in New York City and the number needed to make housing truly abundant and affordable. My colleague Eric Kober estimates that the city would need 500,000 new units over the next decade to reach that goal—roughly twice the rate of housing production that City Hall projects over that interval. Keep that number in mind as we look to what’s actually happening on the ground.

TL/DR: Let the market work.

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