I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade. My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution. This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain. And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself. And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen. "I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin." - George Washington, 1778

Happy Columbus day.

I mean, you gotta have something to toss on the oopsies, for geneva.

If that was a van full of drones, we would have woken up to a substantial number of burning B1s. We had better get our shit together.

A Tomahawk can sit sealed inside its launch canister for years. Its jet engine has never run, and its flight battery isn't sitting there permanently charged. When the missile is finally selected, the ship supplies power, loads the mission details and wakes up a machine designed around the assumption that almost everything has to work correctly the first time. Then it changes character completely. A dormant lithium thermal battery activates, and a Mk 135 booster burns roughly 146 kg of solid propellant to throw the 1.5 tonne launch package out of the ship. Within a few seconds the wings are out, the booster is gone and a tiny Williams F415 turbofan has taken over. Once running, even the battery is no longer needed, a generator driven by the engine powers the missile's electronics. The F415 produces only about 650 lb of thrust. That sounds nowhere near enough for something this heavy, but the engine isn't carrying the Tomahawk. At cruise speed its small wings generate the lift, the turbofan only has to replace the drag. Roughly 500 kg of dense JP-10 fuel gives it the endurance to keep doing this for more than 1,000 km while flying extremely low. Tomahawk has also kept getting smarter without changing that basic architecture. Modern versions can be retargeted after launch, loiter, and even send back an image from an area they pass over. More than 2,300 have been fired in combat since 1991. That may explain its longevity better than any specification. America has spent four decades upgrading the electronics, navigation and payloads inside Tomahawk because the machine underneath still works just fine. With those upgrades, it remains one of the most capable weapons in the subsonic cruise missile class.

I Exposed a Jewish Fraud Ring Stealing From Poor Kids...

No real Lavender applies here. It scored Gazans 1-100 via local surveillance for Hamas similarity, not X posts. Hypothetical from public content (anti-Israel policy rants, ethnic generalizations on Jews, JFK/Rothschild claims, judeo rejection, veteran "on their behalf" talk): Score: 34 / 100 US vet, American-first focus, pure talk, zero ops threat.

VA just awarded a RECORD $1.17 BILLION to help Veterans who are homeless or at risk. THIS is how we put Veterans FIRST. 🇺🇸