Battle of the Naked Men
In the year 1429 during the reign of King Sejong the Great in modern day Korea, the royal government took the advice of its Chinese-trained scholars and set up gender-separated medical saunas, known as hanjeungmak.
The saunas were fed by nearby hot springs and often maintained by Buddhist monks; in this way they were viewed as almost sacred… and certainly healing. The heat was believed to promote circulation, detoxification, and overall health, plus the social gathering in the saunas reinforced relationships within the community.
But, again, medieval Koreans had modest values. And for that reason, they separated men and women in different saunas. That wasn’t a new idea either; many civilizations, going back to the Roman baths, or thermae, separated genders when nudity was involved.
This should hardly be a controversial topic even today. But leave it to angry Leftists to turn public nudity into a human rights case. Continue reading
Trump Miscalculates Iran, Strait Of Hormuz Crisis Escalates
Trump took to Truth Social Saturday to insist that his administration had completely “destroyed” Iran’s military capabilities. In the same sentence, however, he also noted that Iran’s military was still capable of sending “a drone or two,” deploying mines and launching “close range missiles” to keep closed the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping route through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade travels.
Americans are growing increasingly concerned with rising gas prices, and about half are blaming President Trump, per flash polling conducted Wednesday night by Morning Consult and shared with Axios.
Officials from President Donald Trump’s administration have estimated that the first six days of the war on Iran had already cost the United States at least $11.3 billion, according to details from a congressional briefing, as reported by Al Jazeera. This staggering figure, shared during a closed-door session for senators, doesn’t even cover the entire cost of the ongoing conflict. Lawmakers have been clamoring for more information about the financial implications as the war continues to unfold.
What comes after victory is not freedom at all. It’s control. Control of institutions. Control of speech. Control of memory. Control of what is allowed to be said out loud without consequences.
This old world didn’t send out invitations, for you young men and women — no fancy cards with gilt edges, no polite “RSVP” for the grand show of existence. Most of us tumbled into this big, roaring, wonderful room we call the earth by pure mischance, like a prospector stumbling on a claim he never filed. We didn’t ask for the ticket, nor the rough ride that brought us here. For me, it was a near thing from the start – kicking and screaming down the birth canal, fighting the dark tunnel like a wild mustang bucking a blizzard, half sure I’d never see the light of day. The doctor later said it was touch and go, but touch I did, and go I didn’t. I came bawling into a world brimming with hope and promise, only to find shadows waiting, the old evil that prowls every path, sniffing at every soul like a wolf at a campfire.
Ain’t life just ducky, you mammy jammers? Another week of life goes by for 28,000 unborn babies and tens of thousands more from starvation, ‘war’ and other depravations perpetrated by uncaring governments. And here we go again….
That’s a higher percentage than people who think America’s biggest problem is the economy. Or immigration. Or inflation.
The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces.
The Founding Fathers feared judicial tyranny. They had watched British judges operate as little more than a rubber stamp for the Crown and Parliament, enforcing political will rather than the law. That experience shaped the debates at the Constitutional Convention, where some delegates even argued against creating a federal judiciary at all. A federal court system ultimately prevailed only because disputes between states, maritime cases, and controversies involving the federal government required it.
We are all exhausted by modern politics. But a 3,000-year-old story in Judges 9 perfectly explains why the worst people often end up in power.
Gen Z students are struggling to read and comprehend a sentence, one Pepperdine University professor recently said.
We are entering a new period where we will find ourselves facing an incredibly dangerous asymmetrical warfare mission conducted by Islamic terrorists of all stripes, aligned with homegrown domestic terrorists, and our response must be a hard, determined resolve to stop it dead in its tracks before it takes off and takes more innocent American lives. The law enforcement agents cannot be everywhere at once and often are not present in the first moments of a terrorist attack, and so, that leaves it to the good, decent, solid, and courageous Americans to fill the void by way of their own armed interventions in order to thwart evil wherever it rears its ugly head.