They say Biden was wrong on foreign policy for fifty years. That makes sense, he learned from Harry Truman

I've had this book for over 35 years.  After being at the bottom of the pile it finally made it to the top. ~ N.E.H.

Q.  Do I read books?
A.  Not enough         

AI Overview

A Foreign Policy for Americans, published in 1951 by Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio), outlines a conservative, non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs during the early Cold War. Written as a critique of the internationalist policies of the Truman administration, the book argues that the primary purpose of American foreign policy shoud be to protect the liberty and security of the American people, rather than attempting to reshape the world.

Core Principles

Primary National Interest: Taft asserted that foreign policy must focus on the security and prosperity of the United States, arguing against global altruism or "dollar diplomacy" if it did not serve U.S. interests.Opposition to Unlimited Intervention: He opposed the open-ended commitment of American troops and resources overseas, particularly criticizing the lack of congressional authorization in the Korean War.

Criticism of Executive Power: Taft believed the Truman administration's use of military power without a formal declaration of war from Congress undermined the Constitution.

Anti-Communism with Limits: While opposed to Soviet expansion, Taft preferred economic aid over massive military overcommitments to prevent the spread of communism.

Key Recommendations

Powerful Defense Forces: Taft advocated for a strong U.S. military, particularly in the air and on the sea, rather than relying on large, permanent standing ground forces in foreign countries.

Strategic Aid: He supported providing arms and economic aid to countries willing to fight against Communist infiltration, rather than fighting those battles primarily with American soldiers.

Limited Troop Commitments: He was cautious about placing troops in Europe, eventually accepting only a limited presence (six divisions) for defense rather than occupation.

Taft's philosophy, often referred to as a "new kind" of isolationism by critics, was rooted in a deep suspicion of foreign entanglements and a preference for maintaining American sovereignty and constitutional checks on power.

WE DON'T KNOW HIS NAME, BUT HE WAS WEARING A COWBOY HAT (Updated on the hero.)

The Men Who Ran Toward the Gunfire

Saturday afternoon an armed man walked into the parking lot of an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, and began shooting people with what witnesses describe as an AR-style rifle.

Three people were killed.  Others were wounded.

Then, according to multiple witnesses, something happened that almost never becomes the headline.  A man wearing a cowboy hat stepped out of his vehicle with a handgun and moved toward the rifle fire instead of away from it.

Police are still investigating exactly how the shooting ended, but one fact is already clear. While most people were desperately trying to survive, one ordinary citizen decided innocent lives were worth risking his own.

America has a strange habit. We remember the killers.  We forget the men who stopped them.

This is not the first time.

In December 2019, a gunman opened fire during a church service at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas. He murdered two worshippers before Jack Wilson, a firearms instructor sitting with the congregation, ended the attack with a single shot. Had Wilson not acted, many more people would likely have died.

In July 2022, a rifle-armed attacker entered Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana. Twenty two year old Elisjsha Dicken drew a concealed handgun and stopped him before the massacre grew larger. Police later praised his actions and acknowledged that his intervention almost certainly saved lives.

Earlier this year in Massachusetts, a Marine veteran carrying legally moved toward rifle fire on Memorial Drive and helped stop another attempted mass shooting alongside a state trooper.

Now Twin Falls joins that list.  Different states.  Different politics.  Different professions.  Different ages.  One pattern.  Ordinary Americans deciding that someone else’s family was worth risking their own life to protect.  That is not a political slogan.  It is a recurring fact.
One of the oddest features of our national conversation about mass shootings is that we spend enormous amounts of time discussing what police should do once they arrive, and almost no time discussing what ordinary citizens have done before they get there.  Police cannot teleport.  Even the best departments need minutes.  Mass shootings often unfold in seconds.
That gap between the first shot and the first patrol car is where these stories live.  Sometimes the only person standing between a murderer and his next victim is another citizen who happens to be there.
Not every armed citizen should intervene. Not every situation allows it. Many people should run, hide, and protect their families.  But history is full of moments when someone made a different choice. A church.  A shopping mall.  A highway in Massachusetts.  A fast-food parking lot in Idaho.  The details change.  The pattern does not.

None of these men woke up expecting to become heroes.  They were going to church.  Shopping.  Driving down the road.  Buying lunch. Then evil appeared.
And because they were armed, prepared, and willing to act, more people went home alive than otherwise would have.

That is not the whole conversation about firearms in America.  It does not answer every policy question.  But it is part of the truth, and it is a part of the truth our culture is remarkably quick to forget.  The headlines will spend days examining the killer.  His background.  His motives.  His politics.  His mental health.  His grievances.  That is understandable.

But I hope we also remember the man in the cowboy hat.  We may never know his name.  We may never know exactly how the final seconds unfolded.
But we know enough.  We know that while other people ran from the sound of rifle fire, he moved toward it.
America has produced more men like that than our headlines remember.
It would be a mistake to forget this one.
He was wearing a cowboy hat.

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WITNESSING AN INVASION

 

All this talk about Anthony Fauci and all I've got to say is, "This murdering SOB is still free."

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And the following from the Huntsville Times:

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s former COVID czar, should be in prison.

Tuberville claims Fauci’s actions caused the deaths of “20 or 30,000 people in Alabama alone and I hope every damn one of them sues this Dr. Fauci and puts him in court. If we can’t put him in prison, let’s put him in court every day for the rest of his life.”

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More from other sources:

#new Fast Fact: Anthony Fauci had Dr.  Stella Immanuel’s social media shut down after she publicly said she treated more than 350 C*VID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax and didn't have one de*th.

#DC 

Twitter locked the Texas physician out of her account in 2020, after the July news conference  organized by America’s Frontline Doctors outside the Supreme Court. 

#doctors 

Immanuel, a primary care physician practicing in Houston,  told the crowd she had used the combination on patients including those with diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, and elderly individuals up to age 92. 

She said not one of them died. 

She also said that she and her staff took the drug preventively, and even though they saw 15 c*vid patients a day, nobody got infected. 

She called the drug a cure, dismissed the need for masks or lockdowns, labeled contrary studies “fake science,” and later accused Anthony Fauci of lying and playing Russian roulette with American lives.

Twitter removed her videos and posts under its C*VID-19 misinformation rules. 

Her video was taken down across all other platforms after it spread rapidly, including shares by President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. 

Trump called her voice “important” 

"Hello, I’m Dr. Stella Immanuel. I’m a primary care physician in Houston, Texas. I actually went to medical school in West Africa, Nigeria, where I took care of malaria patients, treated them with hydroxychloroquine"

"So I’m actually used to these medications. I’m here because I have personally treated over 350 patients with C*VID."

"Patients that have diabetes, patients that have high blood pressure, patients that have asthma, old people … I think my oldest patient is 92 "

"And the result has been the same. I put them on hydroxychloroquine, I put them on zinc, I put them on Zithromax, and they’re all well."

"For the past few m6onths, after taking care of over 350 patients, we’ve not lost one. Not a diabetic, not a somebody with high blood pressure, not somebody who asthma, not an old person."

"We’ve not lost one patient. And on top of that, I’ve put myself, my staff, and many doctors that I know on hydroxychloroquine for prevention, because by the very mechanism of action, it works early and as a prophylaxis."

"We see patients, 10 to 15 COVID patients, every day. We give them breathing treatments. We only wear surgical masks. None of us has gotten sick. It works."

"So right now, I came here to Washington DC to tell America nobody needs to get sick. This virus has a cure. It is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax."

"I know you people want to talk about a mask. Hello? You don’t need mask. There is a cure. I know they don’t want to open schools. No, you don’t need people to be locked down. There is prevention and there is a cure."

Silenced.

Republicans are telling people to never forget the Draconian lockdowns and rules, forced on the American people by government at the direction of an unelected egomanaic that we now know lied about everything. Anthony Fauci. 

#ChristinaAguayoNews

Fauci gets the F bomb 💣