A proposal to automatically register applicants for California driver’s licenses with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft was pulled by its author, Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), just before a scheduled hearing today in the state Assembly...
Conflicts of Interest: Russia Threatens to Down US Drones Over Black Sea
On COI #626, Kyle Anzalone discusses the wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Rep. Houlahan Fails To Justify Move Toward a Draft
“I have an amendment at the desk.” Rep. Chrissy Houlahan introduces a proposal from the Selective Service System to automate draft registration in the House Armed Services Commiteee, May 22, 2024. Under fire for proposing an ill-considered amendment to this year’s...
Israeli Officials Hiding Data About Forced Starvation of Gaza Prisoners: Report
Israeli prison officials are concealing information about reductions in food rations for Palestinians held in the Gaza Strip, where detainees – who have also reported horrific abuse including alleged rape and deadly torture – have been deliberately driven "to the...
Conflicts of Interest: Zelensky Warns Ukraine Is Running Out of Time
On COI #625, Kyle Anzalone discusses the Biden-Trump debate and other news. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
The Gaza Project Exposes Israel’s ‘Chilling Pattern’ of Killing Journalists
With more than 100 media professionals – nearly all of them Palestinian – killed in Gaza since October, a group of 50 reporters from 13 international organizations this week shared the results of a new investigative journalism initiative aimed at exposing the deadly...
Build Submarines – Destroy the World!
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Whenever I watch my hometown baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park I’m told by a message painted along the first and third base lines to “build submarines.” At commercial breaks between innings,...
Chicago Tribune’s Criticism of Putin’s North Korea Visit Unfortunate on Several Levels
For starters, the editorial 'Mr. Putin goes to Pyongyang and we don't like that show’ is filled with hyperbolic anti Putin rhetoric. Instead of relying on an esteemed political scientist to analyze Putin's psyche, the Trib quotes the dramatist of 'The Crown' who sees...
Biden Prepares to Send Mercenaries to Ukraine
On COI #624, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Ukraine and the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
A Family’s Torment, A Dying Empire’s Rage
As I said to Judge Napolitano earlier today, I am so happy I might cry, and so angry at what they did to Julian and his family I might put a fist through a wall in my house. I think most of us are heavy with emotion while trying to understand what comes next. Here’s...


