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A Georgia auto-shop owner and former Army tank crewman who served in the early Iraq occupation, then came home to run his family's two-generation garage. He spent fifteen years with the waiting-room TV on Fox News before his own faith led him to see the nationalism he'd absorbed as the opposite of the discipleship his Bible asked for. He writes on war, strategy, and the military-industrial complex — quoting Sun Tzu and Eisenhower's farewell with the seriousness of a man who's had to use both.
Now, I'm just a simple man who runs an auto shop in Redemption Springs, Georgia. But when I read that the American ambassador to Greece was caught on Signal texting a Trump donor to wire her $100,000 in a way that wouldn't show up anywhere, I didn't think about Washington. I thought about what my neighbor pays for eggs. Here's the thing about this kind of corruption that the…
2026-10-13 · 5 MIN READAnduril handed a sergeant a drone that dies in the desert sun. Three other companies each took more than a hundred million dollars for headsets that flunked the same rock. Sgt. Ramontez Bennett was doing his job at Fort Irwin in July. The thermometer hit 110. His Anduril drone was supposed to sit up there doing the watching. Instead it cooked and came down. "They gotta do…
2026-10-10 · 4 MIN READThursday morning, two Latvian nationals, 36 and 32, both living here in the U.K., walked onto RAF Molesworth. Molesworth sits about seventy miles north of London and is shared between the Royal Air Force, the United States Joint…
2026-10-09 · 5 MIN READThe TPLF is seizing Tigrayan boys at gunpoint to fight beside their families' killers. They come for them at the street corner, at the minibus stop, at the public transit areas where a boy stands waiting to get to work or to class.…
2026-10-06 · 5 MIN READTrump is staging Hasan's execution while the Fort Hood families have waited seventeen years. Let me tell you what Hasan did, because the plain facts matter. On November 5, 2009, he walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READKimberly Guilfoyle took a gas company's jet and sold its deals as ambassador. That is what the record shows, and you do not need a Senate committee to follow it. A registered lobbyist named Christos Marafatsos has a Greek client called Aktor Group. Aktor, through a joint venture with a Greek state-backed energy company called DEPA, signed a twenty-year deal last fall to buy…
2026-10-03 · 5 MIN READThree carriers. Twenty thousand sailors and Marines. One hundred fifty fighter jets. Fifty thousand more boots already on the ground. A peace proposal rejected Saturday, a fuel supply strangled Thursday, and an administration that has told the country, out loud, that it may resume attacks after the November midterms. Those twenty thousand are not a number in a briefing slide.…
2026-10-02 · 6 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are moving another 10,000 troops toward Iran and calling it a deployment. Sunday morning in San Diego, the USS Theodore Roosevelt pulled out of her home port for what the Navy calls a scheduled deployment. Monday, the…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READTwo years ago, a cornfield grew along the Vistula north of Warsaw. Now armored launchers roll out of a weapons plant where MBDA built a missile facility in the time it takes other countries to form a committee. Polish workers punch in at…
2026-09-27 · 5 MIN READBrazilian workers are the ones who will pay for this. Not the diplomats, not the senators, not the State Department spokesman. The woman packing export goods in Santos, the family watching prices climb in the São Paulo market, the factory…
2026-09-25 · 5 MIN READFor years, the People's Republic of China has treated the Pacific Islands the way a poacher treats a game reserve — not as a neighborhood of sovereign states to be respected, but as a soft underbelly to be exploited. On Wednesday, the…
2026-10-08 · 4 MIN READThe Navy confirmed eight sailors attempted suicide. The president and the defense secretary called their families' claims fake news. Eight people out of five thousand. That carrier is a floating city, and eight of those sailors reached the…
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I been in the IAM hall for forty years. Not literally; I was a tank crewman in Third Infantry Division, not a machinist. But I been in enough customer waiting areas and enough union halls in small Southern towns and industrial cities to…
2026-09-24 · 6 MIN READTrump is threatening the vote with armed federal power. Picture a single mother finishing a shift at a warehouse and taking her child to the firehouse to vote. She has waited all year for that hour. Her rent is due. Her supervisor has…
2026-09-24 · 4 MIN READThe allies walked away from the bargain American working towns paid for with their blood. I wrote up a brake job last week for a man who hauls freight between the port at Savannah and the distribution centers up I-16. Fifty-one years old.…
2026-09-21 · 4 MIN READCanada is recruiting Britain into a bloc it calls partnership. Now, I'm just a simple man, but I know what a sales pitch sounds like. I hear them every week in the shop. Customer comes in, the truck's making a noise, and someone has…
2026-09-21 · 4 MIN READTrump threatened to take Greenland, then cut a deal that lets American companies mine its minerals. The people who live there get the subcontracts. For two years the machinery of American coercion pointed at an island of 56,000 people who…
2026-09-20 · 4 MIN READThe Pentagon just made every service man over thirty's blood work a matter of his career. The rest of the world might call it a "screening program." If you're the guy in the uniform, it's one blood draw and a questionnaire between you and…
2026-09-18 · 6 MIN READThe Pentagon is burning through America's missile defenses while denying the country is running short. Sixty to seventy Patriot interceptors burned to stop about twenty Iranian ballistic missiles. Iran still hit aircraft on the ground at…
2026-09-16 · 3 MIN READThe Pentagon confirmed orbital weapons so defense contractors can bill for the next war. That is the story this week. Not the disclosure itself. The money behind it. Gen. Douglas Schiess, the Space Force's top officer, told an audience at…
2026-09-15 · 4 MIN READLet me tell you what sabotage looks like when you read it out of a budget document. Markwayne Mullin and Nick Anderson, the acting head of CISA, have by act and omission removed the connective tissue between federal intelligence and the…
2026-09-04 · 3 MIN READThe dead are people, not talking points. Iranian mothers are burying their children this week because Washington's second wave of strikes dismantled Iranian air defenses, radar, and mine-laying capability along the Strait of Hormuz.…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READDefense contractors are getting rich off a war your family pays for at the pump. Sunday, U.S. forces struck Iranian launch sites preparing to fire rockets loaded with naval mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran fired missiles at Jordan…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but I know what a parts counter looks like when somebody is being charged for something they didn't order. The statement the North Korean Foreign Ministry put out Aug. 31 is the diplomatic equivalent of a…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READChristopher Harborne is buying Britain's defence policy with his defence-industry portfolio. I was under a transmission last Tuesday when a man I've changed oil for fifteen years came into the shop with his daughter. She needed steady…
2026-08-30 · 3 MIN READThe USS Abraham Lincoln slipped past Singapore in the dark early Sunday morning — spotted by Associated Press journalists on the Indonesian island of Batam, across the Singapore Strait, shortly after 1 a.m. local time — ending a…
2026-08-30 · 4 MIN READThe woman on the sewing line in the Toronto garment shop is stitching camouflage helmet covers for the Canadian military now. A few months ago she was stitching winter parkas. Same machines, same hands, different thread, and a question…
2026-08-27 · 5 MIN READRobert Gilman walked out of Russia this month after more than four years in a cell. He looked gaunt. He looked sickly. The man who looked at those pictures from his kitchen in this country is Harold Jezler. His wife Olga has been in a…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READMonday's phone call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun was a coordination meeting. The thing being coordinated was the United States–South Korea alliance, twenty-eight thousand five hundred…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READGov. Jeff Landry asked for soldiers on Bourbon Street and kept them there for eight months. The line cooks, dishwashers, and hotel housekeepers who work those blocks walked past them on their way to clock in every shift. The last 120…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READTrump is abandoning the South Korean alliance to a nuclear North Korea. Now, I'm just a simple man, but when I read that the Marines just killed their biggest beach drill with South Korea, my first thought wasn't about deterrence theory.…
2026-08-24 · 5 MIN READTrump and the Pentagon are burning through America's arsenal on a war they cannot finish. Let me get to the parts counter before I get to the policy. A man came into my shop last week with a 2014 F-150. The transmission had gone out. He…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READTrump's Pentagon is turning the Philippines into a missile launchpad for a war with China. The sailors who spelled "Farewell Subic" in white paint on the carrier runway in March 1992 were wrong about one thing. They thought they meant it.…
2026-08-19 · 5 MIN READTrump's Pentagon is blackmailing universities into terminating their foreign research partnerships. The Department of Defense told thirty unnamed American universities on Monday that they have until August 31 to audit every collaboration…
2026-08-18 · 4 MIN READTrump gutted the exercises that keep South Korea safe — to please Kim Jong Un. That is the plain reading of what he posted Sunday from the White House, and it deserves plain words. He ordered the Pentagon to "substantially reduce" the…
2026-08-17 · 4 MIN READThe State Department got its receipt on Friday. Three months earlier, it had donated $2.3 million in military equipment to Niger's military junta. Kevin Rideout, the SIM International missionary kidnapped in Niamey on October 21, 2025, was…
2026-08-14 · 5 MIN READI want to start with where the minute comes from. The annual cost of running the American consulate in Medan, Indonesia — two American diplomats, an island of more than sixty million people, one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth —…
2026-08-13 · 6 MIN READTrump is stealing money from your kids and handing it to rich people overseas. He told America he was going to stop wasting taxpayer money abroad, so he shut down USAID and put most of its staff on indefinite leave and called it America…
2026-08-12 · 5 MIN READRussia and North Korea are sending soldiers to die for battlefield lessons. That is the human mechanism beneath this partnership. Governments trade troops, missiles, and ammunition for experience. The soldiers absorb the danger. Their…
2026-08-11 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is deporting the families of soldiers who serve this country. More than sixty lawmakers opened an investigation this week into whether the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are coordinating to deport…
2026-08-10 · 5 MIN READThe United States abandoned 7,359 Korean War families for 76 years. Rick Downes was three years old when his father disappeared over North Korea. Donna Knox was born six weeks later. Their father, Air Force 2nd Lt. Harold W. Downes Jr.,…
2026-08-09 · 4 MIN READTrump and Kushner are building a military base in Gaza and calling it reconstruction. The Board of Peace, set up by the president in January to oversee rebuilding the strip, has issued its first construction award, though a board official…
2026-08-06 · 4 MIN READTrump and Rubio are dismantling American diplomacy and handing China the field. A consulate is not a polished storefront for diplomats. It is a working office where trade gets handled, visas get processed, local officials get known, and…
2026-08-05 · 4 MIN READSouth Korea's government is killing its EV industry while Chinese cars take the market. The damage starts with the people who make the parts. A battery plant can receive support while the finished vehicle using that battery loses support.…
2026-08-05 · 4 MIN READSouth Korea’s government is taxing its electric-vehicle industry into retreat. The government excluded finished electric vehicles from a new domestic production tax credit while phasing out consumer tax exemptions for electric and…
2026-08-04 · 3 MIN READPeople carried Richard Bong’s wingtip home one careful step at a time. The six-foot piece of aluminum came from Marge, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning flown by Bong, a Wisconsin pilot credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft during the…
2026-08-04 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is killing people in Iran and calling it a negotiation. When that does not work, it blames the other side for being unreasonable. Six months into a war the administration told us would be quick and clean, the…
2026-07-31 · 4 MIN READTrump and Netanyahu are selling a Gaza peace plan that does not exist outside of a press release. President Trump announced Thursday that Hamas has agreed to disarm and Israel will withdraw its forces under a phased arrangement. Yesterday…
2026-07-31 · 5 MIN READThe American military forced Korean civilians into bomb shelters on Thursday afternoon because it could not be bothered to tell the border guards a U.S. drone was coming. That is what happened near Cheorwon, a small city in Gangwon…
2026-07-31 · 4 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man from Redemption Springs, Georgia, but I figure if I ran my shop the way the U.S. military ran a training exercise on the Korean Peninsula last Thursday, I would not have customers for long. A U.S. drone was…
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are killing Iranian civilians and calling it retaliation. Last night's heavy strikes on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets inside Iran killed three members of a family on Qeshm island — a father, a mother, and…
2026-07-30 · 6 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but… when a White House that sent CENTCOM's Fifth Fleet into the Arabian Sea and authorized daily strikes against Iranian proxies tells you to watch the oil futures, you should watch the oil futures. They are…
2026-07-28 · 5 MIN READWestern governments spent thirty years hollowing out the war factories that defended them. The United States has one propellant factory. It was built before the Normandy landings, and no new one has been built since 1971. Europe has one…
2026-07-28 · 9 MIN READBoth parties, across six administrations, spent thirty-five years closing the factories that make the ammunition, and called it a peace dividend. The United States has one propellant factory left. It is a World War II-era plant in southern…
2026-07-27 · 6 MIN READTrump is waging economic war on Canada and calling it trade policy. Now, I’m just a simple man, but when a nation’s largest trading partner holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a bridge that took years to build and tells the Americans to…
2026-07-27 · 4 MIN READTrump promised peace. He delivered a war entering its sixth month, and the bill is landing on your kitchen table. Five months of strikes against Iran have cost nearly $40 billion. The Pentagon is coming back to Congress for another $67…
2026-07-27 · 5 MIN READXi freed one pastor and kept the boot on every family that prays. That is what happened on July 3, when Chinese authorities let Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri out of a detention center in southern China and put him on a plane to Los Angeles.…
2026-07-24 · 4 MIN READXi Jinping is trading human beings for diplomatic leverage and pocketing the receipts. The pastor is Ezra Jin Mingri, 57, and the publisher is Jimmy Lai, 77. One ate an In-N-Out hamburger in Los Angeles with his family the night before…
2026-07-23 · 8 MIN READThe Trump administration is killing American soldiers in an undeclared war against Iran. CENTCOM announced early Thursday that U.S. forces had conducted a twelfth consecutive night of strikes against Iranian military and maritime targets.…
2026-07-23 · 4 MIN READTrump is squeezing Canadian workers, and Carney gave away their leverage. Mark Carney spent sixteen months making concession after concession to Washington. He killed the digital-services tax that would have captured revenue from American…
2026-07-23 · 5 MIN READPeru is licensing the destruction of its own rainforest, and the Andean Court of Justice has finally been asked to rule on whether that violates the country's obligations under the trade bloc it belongs to. The case, admitted this week by…
2026-07-23 · 4 MIN READPeru's government built a formalization program that gives illegal miners legal cover, and it works. That is the plain substance behind the case the Andean Court of Justice has now admitted, the first time the regional trade bloc's…
2026-07-22 · 4 MIN READTrump launched a war in Iran in February. Four soldiers died in it. Tomorrow he will attend their dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base. Two Army soldiers killed in Iranian missile and drone strikes on a Jordanian base will be…
2026-07-22 · 5 MIN READThe government built this fight and called the veteran an extremist. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, served in the regular Army from 2001 to 2004 and the New York National Guard from 2004 to 2005. He left as a specialist. He never deployed. He went…
2026-07-21 · 5 MIN READThe country that failed Andrew Arrabaca now calls him an extremist. Andrew Arrabaca entered the Army in 2001. He was part of the post-9/11 cohort — the generation that served when the country was at war. He spent three years in the regular…
2026-07-20 · 6 MIN READTrump and Rubio are engineering a Lebanese civil war and calling it disarmament. Here is the plan, stripped of the language Washington wraps around it: train Lebanese soldiers to fight Hezbollah. Hand them off from the Israeli troops…
2026-07-20 · 5 MIN READCorporate America has spent forty years shifting the risk of retirement from the boardroom to the breakroom. A news story marveling over an employer that actually puts money into its workers' 401(k) accounts without requiring them to match…
2026-07-19 · 5 MIN READThe CIA and two White Houses traded America's AI crown jewels to the Emirates for a $500 million crypto payday. The operative sent to spy on it ended up brokering it. Now, I'm just a simple man who turns wrenches for a living, but if that…
2026-07-19 · 4 MIN READA police operation deploys officers trained for the beat they work, accountable to the community they patrol. An armed occupation puts thousands of troops from a dozen states on the streets of the nation's capital, armed and aimless, with…
2026-07-18 · 6 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but the arithmetic here is plain enough. In 2025, the Trump administration shut down the United States Agency for International Development. Elon Musk, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, said he…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READPete Hegseth is screening soldiers for testosterone while their communities eat cuts. The defense secretary announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will test every soldier over thirty for testosterone deficiency. Annual health…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READIsrael is occupying southern Lebanon and calling it a security buffer. Families can't go home. Workers can't get back to their shops. Villages sit empty because a U.S.-brokered "process" has no timetable and no end date. Now, I'm just a…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Pentagon rehearsed a permanent war to justify permanent contracts. The Combined Joint Sustainment Training that kicked off this week in Pohang and Hongcheon fielded 4,400 troops, 600 pieces of equipment, naval vessels, aircraft, and…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READTrump is occupying the nation's capital with armed troops the city's elected government didn't ask for, didn't approve, and doesn't want. That is what is happening. The rest is performance. Nearly five thousand National Guard troops from…
2026-07-15 · 5 MIN READTrump is bombing Iranian cities and charging the world to ship oil. Third consecutive night. Six cities. Bushehr, Chabahar, Jask, Konarak, Abu Musa, Bandar Abbas. Five-hour bombardment on Monday. U.S. Central Command says the strikes are…
2026-07-14 · 5 MIN READThe Air Force One story tells you everything you need to know about what this taskforce is actually for. The New York Times reported that the new Qatari-gifted aircraft lacked the advanced defensive countermeasures of the old plane,…
2026-07-13 · 6 MIN READThe United States kidnapped a Sinaloa cartel boss in Mexico and lied to its president. A woman brought a truck in last week for brakes. She runs a cleaning service over in Dalton, employs six women, sends money home to her mother in…
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