The United States is in the middle of a long-overdue reckoning. One which, if you are a direct participant or victim, has been particularly visceral for the last six or seven months. By now, there have been dozens of articles and podcasts and news clips of insiders and pundits pontificating and opining on what caused the insurrection at the Capitol nearly three weeks ago. And while the Inauguration has come and gone, and it seems as though many in the security field have pres

2 days ago, the Wall Street Journal Published an article titled "In Capitol Riot, Communication Between Agencies Hampered Response," which details the chain of communications from the time Mayor Muriel Bowser first contacted Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, requesting DC National Guard to be deployed on the Capitol (1:34pm) to the moment the DC Guard showed up (5:40pm). The insurrectionists had been on the premises from 12:45pm until 3:37pm, according to the timeline, which is

The benefactors of Permission Culture are seeing their hegemony collapse. The insurrectionists thought of this as their Battle of Jericho. What it actually was has been best phrased by a friend of mine named Damian Harmony: "We may be seeing the likely and predictable reaction of brittle white guys being told “no.”" There are numerous pictures displaying the flagrant, boastful, venomous, violent, abusive, tyrannical, barbaric, ignorant, repugnant, idiotic, and shameful beha