Category Archives: War & Terror

Open Advocation Of Eco-Terrorism

Posted on September 29, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Environmental extremists often gravitate towards literal acts of terrorism. Their thugishness is well known, but increasingly is become almost acceptable to advocate and support, as the New Yorker seems to do with this little bit of normalization by podcast and … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years Ago Today – NEVER FORGET

Posted on September 11, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Twenty years ago today, America was attacked. Instead of focusing in on America leaving Afghanistan, let us focus in on why we went there to begin with.  Never forget the victims who died, and those who fought back.      In Pace, … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: How the Vietnam War Was Lost

Posted on September 3, 2021 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      With the humiliated disaster in Afghanistan, let us look back on how another war was lost.   William … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: The Fall of Saigon—and How It Might Have Been

Posted on August 27, 2021 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      With the fall of Kabul and the triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan, let us look back upon … Continue reading →

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Gleiwitz Redux

Posted on August 17, 2021 by The Political Hat

     The casus belli the regime of the National Socialist German Workers Party used to justify the invasion of Poland (in agreement with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) were purported incursions of foreign troops into claimed sovereign spaces.   This is just the … Continue reading →

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South Africa In A Widening Gyre

Posted on July 20, 2021 by The Political Hat

     South Africa has spiraled into riots, looting, and general lethal mayhem. While the arrest of former South African President Zuma for corruption was the tinder that lit this fire, the brush was already primed to burn in this nation which … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate In Queer Pride? The Hyena Of The Gestapo!

Posted on July 13, 2021 by The Political Hat

     So desperate are some to portray “strong” and “transgressive” women who are also queer for that additional intersectional sheen of wokeness, that they ignore the fact that the person they are celebration, one Violette Morris, is… not only a Nazi … Continue reading →

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The Woke-Industrial Complex

Posted on July 12, 2021 by The Political Hat

     Military related companies, including defense contractors, are just as woke as the U.S. military itself is becoming. Case in point: Raytheon. SCOOP: Raytheon, the nation's second-largest defense contractor, has launched a critical race theory program that encourages white employees to … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: Contra Aid

Posted on July 9, 2021 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Whether the United States should support friendly foreign governments against more antagonistic tyrants has been a longstanding question, … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: The Implication of the Manson Phenomenon

Posted on June 4, 2021 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Crazy groups lead by even crazier leaders is nothing new, as William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses with Vincent … Continue reading →

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