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The Liberty experienced significant travel delays Wednesday en route to Dallas, where they are scheduled to play the Wings on Thursday night.

Consider Patrick Mahomes an optimist regarding his injury timeline. 

The search for three people missing after a boat accident came to an end Wednesday night.

The Liberty head to Dallas to take on the Wings on Thursday in hopes of salvaging the second half of what’s been a rough road trip.

Forty years after Diego Maradona’s infamous Hand of God broke English hearts, Lionel Messi needed only his right foot to do it again.

The FBI stands ready to assist Irish police as the Jordanian suspect in the Killarney murder case remains detained.

Myles Garrett's award-winning night got a little sweeter thanks to a familiar face.

Katie Porter is leaving politics to return to teaching following a fifth-place finish in the 2026 California gubernatorial primary election.

Caitlin Clark wasn’t having it. 

It's the 154th edition of the oldest golf tournament in the world.

He's is a man of few words but many laughs.

The family of a cyclist who died after being struck by a city worker's car door in Northern California is on the verge of winning a massive settlement of $2 million.

A futuristic $15,000 electric vehicle that chats with drivers, streams TV and can even park itself sounds like something perfect for a California summer — but there's one big catch: You can't take it on the freeway.

A sold-out crowd of 42,175 flocked to Flushing on Wednesday night for the first NWSL match held in New York City. Gotham came away with a 1-0 win.

All Socialists Are Ignorant, But Some Are More Ignorant Than Others...

Authored by Lloyd Billingsley via AmericanThinker.com,

In The Law, published in 1850, Frédéric Bastiat made a case against “legal plunder,” the perversion of the law to violate liberty and property rights.

Nearly 100 years later in The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek warned that socialists, whatever their intentions, lacked the knowledge to command the economy.

Hayek also explained how the worst always get on top in socialist regimes, and after the German National Socialists’ Anschluss in 1938, he did not return to his native Austria. In 1983, President Reagan brought Hayek to the White House, and in 1991 President George H.W. Bush awarded Hayek the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman authored Capitalism and Freedom and became a national figure with the “Free to Choose” series on PBS. 

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell also upheld the virtues of the market over government command of the economy.

Those now proudly calling themselves “democratic socialists” seem unaware of these authors and show little if any inclination to engage in debate.

The surging socialists are even more unaware of works that show socialism as it actually existed under its most enthusiastic promoters. Consider, for example, the experience of Malcolm Muggeridge. His magisterial Chronicles of Wasted Time (1972) devotes a chapter to “A Socialist Upbringing.” The Muggeridge household jostled with politicians, scholars, and clergy dedicated to the cause, along with Labor Party stalwarts such as Ramsey MacDonald and Fabian socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Their collective efforts aimed to benefit “the workers,” who were never present at any of their events.

“A worker is someone for whom everything is done as long as he keeps off stage,” Muggeridge noted, and “the whole notion of a working class with a specific political or cultural, or even spiritual role qua working class is a fantasy invented by guilt-stricken renegade proletarians like D.H. Lawrence, or by renegade bourgeoisie on the run like William Morris or, for that matter, Marx and Engels themselves, or just by a sociologist looking for a subject and a job.”

After stints teaching in India and Egypt, Muggeridge wound up in the first “workers’ state,” the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), as the Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Correspondents ran contests to see who could pass off the most fatuous story to the regime’s foreign admirers. Muggeridge convinced Lord Marley that the long lines for everything were intended to give zealous workers a chance to rest. When a British lawyer asked if the Soviets practiced habeas corpus, A.T. Cholerton of the Daily Telegraph told him they strictly adhered to habeas cadaver.

Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture claimed more than a million victims in Ukraine, but Walter Duranty of the New York Times contended that there was no forced famine there. Muggeridge decided to see for himself. “This particular famine was planned and deliberate, not due to any natural catastrophe like failure of rain, or cyclone, or flooding,” he wrote. “There is not only a famine but a state of war, a military occupation... Peasants with their hands tied behind their back being loaded into cattle-trucks at gunpoint.” After breaking this story, Muggeridge was widely vilified while Duranty’s mendacious reports won a Pulitzer Prize.

In August, 1939, Stalin signed a pact with Hitler’s Germany. “I had been expecting such a development,” Muggeridge wrote, “never losing an opportunity to say that Bolshevism and National Socialism were the same thing, except that one was a Slav version and the other Teutonic.” Margarete Buber-Neumann described that reality in Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler.

The Potsdam native married Heinz Neumann, a rising star in the German Communist Party (KDP). The Communist International (Comintern) sent the couple on various assignments before bringing them to Moscow during Stalin’s purge campaign. Heinz Neumann was tried and executed the same day with no word to Margarete. She soon found herself in the Lubianka prison before being sentenced to five years in the corrective labor camps then holding 1.3 million prisoners.

In the vast Karaganda complex, Buber-Neumann was forced to perform “a certain labor quota” in the fields. “We were always hungry,” the prisoner wrote, and field workers were in the “fourth and worst category” when it came to food. In these conditions, Zena, a Gypsy girl, is told she should go to school and learn about socialism.“I don’t like it!” Zena shoots back “You can go and **** your mother with your socialism! I’m a free Gypsy.”

Preyed on by criminals, who were very cozy with camp bosses, Margarete manages to survive. During the Stalin-Hitler Pact, the secret police (GPU) changed her sentence to removal from the Soviet Union.

In early 1940 the Soviets put the prisoner of Stalin on a train headed for the Brest-Litovsk bridge into occupied Poland. There GPU men and SS officers jointly check the list of names. The prisoners were then “sent on in cattle trucks to Bialas" and “marched through the streets under SS guard.” Then it was on to Ravensbrück, the National Socialists’ largest concentration camp for women. In Under Two Dictators, Buber-Neumann describes the forced labor, torture, and executions in exacting detail.

“Historians have long regarded it as a standard work on Nazi camps and the Gulag,” notes professor Nikolaus Wachsman in his introduction. “But among a general readership in the English-speaking world, the book is virtually unknown.”

The fearful symmetry of German National Socialism and Soviet Communism doubtless caused journalists, academics and politicians deliberately to ignore the book.

Add these works to those of George Orwell, whose 1984 portrayed the totalitarian world of Ingsoc (English Socialism). In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the revolutionary victors proclaim that all animals are equal -- but some more equal than others. In 2026 safe to say, all socialists are ignorant, but some more ignorant than others -- and willfully so.

Arthur Koestler took note of Buber-Neumann’s experience in his contribution to The God That Failed, published in 1949. In Arrow in the Blue (1952) Koestler explained, “The well-meaning ‘progressives of the Left’ persist in following their old, outworn concepts. As if under the spell of a destructive compulsion, they must repeat every single error of the past. One can only watch in horror and despair, for this time there will be no pardon.”

Those who value their liberty must decide how that applies moving forward.

Tyler Durden Wed, 07/15/2026 - 23:25

Everyone wants to know where LeBron James will sign this offseason.

The Post’s Howie Kussoy takes a look at three questions facing the Mets in the second half of the season.

Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani won the 2026 ESPY award for best single-game performance.

Michael Foster, 58, allegedly shot his niece, Julia Anderson, 39, multiple times in the stomach as she was about to step into her black Jeep in the Wakefield section Monday night.

"Sub-Second Detect- To-Fire": Futuristic Dome Turret Could Be US Military's Answer To Drone Swarms

Picket Defense Systems is developing a next-generation counter-drone turret designed to eliminate the delays conventional systems face when targeting fast-moving, one-way attack drones or incoming swarms. This is a major vulnerability confronting the US military and allied forces as drone threats proliferate across modern battlefields that Picket plans to solve.

Its Inferno RTC uses a 54-barrel hemispherical array that continuously maintains 360-degree coverage, allowing the turret to select and fire the optimal barrel without needing to rotate and lock onto the target first.

"Fixed multi-barrel hemispherical array — no slewing delay. Sub-second detect- to-fire. No dead zones, no blind spots, no reaction time," Picket wrote in a slide deck.

Defense Blog recently explained why Picket's 54-barrel hemispherical array could represent the next evolution in turret design for defeating fast-moving drone swarms:

The aiming latency problem the Inferno is designed to solve is one of the most technically challenging aspects of close-in drone defense, and it has become increasingly urgent as adversaries have adopted tactics specifically designed to exploit it.

Conventional counter-drone gun systems, whether mounted on vehicles or fixed at a site, must physically slew a barrel to point at an incoming threat before firing, a process that takes measurable time even on fast-actuating electromechanical systems. Against a single drone approaching at moderate speed, that delay is manageable.

Against a coordinated swarm of fast-moving targets approaching from multiple directions simultaneously, it creates engagement sequencing problems that single-barrel systems have no mechanical solution for.

The Inferno's continuously rotating architecture eliminates that sequencing problem by having a barrel already in approximately the right position for any threat vector at any moment.

Picket appears to be targeting the civilian counter-drone market with a dual-use turret designed for critical infrastructure, data centers, energy facilities, airports, stadiums, and commercial ports.

Our late-January note, titled "Explosion in AI Data Center Buildouts Will Demand Next-Gen Counter-Drone Security," revealed a shocking reality that many high-value assets around the world remain largely vulnerable to low-cost kamikaze drones.

About a month later, we published a report that showed the first-ever data center in the world was hit by an Iranian attack drone in the Gulf region. This was a major wake-up call for the US, hyperscalers, militaries, and other governments that are now racing to harden airspace against these small but deadly threats.

Related:

• US Military Races To Harden Strategic Nuclear Bases With Counter-Drone AI Shield

What we suspect is coming down the pipe is a procurement supercycle for drone and counter-drone systems, which we believe is already in the early chapters and will accelerate in 2027. How to profit.

Tyler Durden Wed, 07/15/2026 - 23:00