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Some news stories are ambiguous enough to suggest a fantastic alternative. Take the high school teacher who found T-Rex footprints in North Dakota. Fossil footprints, right?

“Kent Hups said he couldn’t contain his excitement when he came across several giant three-toed track prints that appeared to be T. Rex footprints in a North Dakota land formation last year.”

High school science teacher discovers rare T. Rex tracks: ‘A real pivotal moment’

Kent Hups could not contain his excitement when he came across several giant three-toed track prints that appeared to be T. Rex footprints in North Dakota.

It’s a curious fact that some places on the map don’t exist. Especially islands. Perhaps the most famous one of all is Atlantis. But instances existed until the 20th century, ready made for movie plots.

Phantom island – Wikipedia

New at the Belmont Club: A quarter century after September 11, 2001 a new generation has gone from confidently expecting the End of History to cautiously walking point into an uncertain future.

Belmont Club: September 10, 2001

Reflecting on global shifts and security since Sept. 10, 2001, and the evolving world order.

Sometimes I’m tempted to write an atmospheric piece, an exposition that doesn’t capture the facts but a mood, what DJs sometimes call the soundtrack of our lives. In this case a score of the early days of involvement in what we now call the Cold War. It was strange age. The time before death; a time before love and before old age. Recalling that period I hear only music, the memories have faded.

New at PJMedia VIP. The CIA director flew to Moscow reportedly to warn Russia not to invade NATO. What was that about?

Will Putin Attack NATO?

Analysis of Putin’s potential NATO attack and Russia’s gray-zone tactics in Europe.

New at the Belmont Club. The Islamic Republic’s ultimate weapon was supposed to be control over the Straits of Hormuz. It was the geographical fact to which there was no answer. That turned out to be not quite true.

Belmont Club: Opening the Strait of Hormuz

How the U.S. and allies reopened the Strait of Hormuz despite Iranian control and military threats.

New at PJMedia VIP. Why is it that when left wing politicians fall it’s nearly always about sex? That is because in reality it’s always about power.

Understanding Bourgeois Immorality

Explore the political use of ‘bourgeois immorality’ in power struggles from Stalin to modern figures.

New at the Belmont Club: The trial of a new ebola treatment in the Congo is a reminder that what is derided as Western civilization is useful more than sometimes.

Belmont Club: The Utility of Civilization

Discover how Western innovation drives global health advances like the Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine.

New at PJMedia VIP. Hyphenated identities are out in China and so too might they be for the rest of the left-wing world.

Chinese Communism Ditches Multiculturalism

China’s 2026 ethnic unity law ends multiculturalism, enforcing assimilation and Mandarin education.

New at the Belmont Club. There may be no going back to the past in the Strait of Hormuz but there is a future.

Belmont Club: The Strait War

Analysis of the Strait of Hormuz conflict and its global economic and political impact.

New at PJMedia VIP. For many creatures, including humans, tribalism has been the ultimate defense. People alone took the stranger into the fire to learn from him if they could. But it always remained a risky encounter that could easily go wrong. And it did in Belfast.

The Stranger by the Fire: Multiculturalism in Ireland

Exploring multiculturalism, tribalism, and social challenges in Ireland’s evolving cultural landscape.

New at the Belmont Club. The throttling of the Islamic Republic is slow news but faster in actuality.

Belmont Club: The Blockade of Hormuz Revisited

Analysis of U.S. naval blockade and Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz against Iran’s control.

New at PJMedia VIP. The U.S. military said it is deploying “multidomain unmanned platforms” as part of ongoing operations connected with “Project Freedom” aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. In plain English, this means it has deployed hundreds of robots that are now operating in the air, on the surface of the Strait, and under the water. This is how it may work.

America’s Robots and Hormuz

Explore how U.S. Navy AI-driven unmanned systems secure the Strait of Hormuz in Project Freedom.

New at the Belmont Club. Iran would be caught on the horns of a dilemma – the Horns of Hormuz as it were: to let the ships pass or by opposing them, give Donald Trump a 60-day renewable permit to pound the Islamic Republic into dust. Accepting either course would likely be fatal to the Islamic Republic. If Tehran lets the ships pass unmolested, the Strait will be closed only to them and open to everyone else. They would have blockaded themselves!

Belmont Club: The Horns of Hormuz

Operation Freedom aims to secure Strait of Hormuz, challenging Iran’s blockade and ensuring maritime navigation.

New at PJMedia VIP. China estimates than Japan has enough plutonium to make 5,500 nuclear weapons. Iran has potentially less than 1% of that. Why does the world not worry about Japan?

Why Are Countries More Worried About Iran Than Japan?

Exploring why global concern centers on Iran’s nuclear ambitions despite Japan’s larger plutonium stockpile.

New at the Belmont Club. Saying hello or goodbye to people you once knew as the man you used to be.

Belmont Club: On Funerals and Weddings

Reflect on reunions, memory, and the enduring nature of love through past and present moments.

New at PJMedia VIP. Through history, events suggests that it’s not who wins battles, but who terrorizes the population that remains in control.

The Strategy of Tyranny

Explores how tyranny endures through terror and cultural control beyond military victories.

New at the Belmont Club. From decades of experience at fighting Israel, Iran’s Islamic Republic conceived of strategy to create a defense so deep, so redundant and decentralized that no decapitation or conventional attack could destroy it. They called it Defa-e Mozaiki, the Mosaic Defense.

Belmont Club: Cracking The Mosaic Defense

An analysis of Iran’s decentralized Mosaic Defense strategy and its vulnerabilities against US/Israeli coalition tactics.

New at PJMedia VIP. Why did Peter Thiel talk about the Antichrist in Rome? The optimists of the last century thought the future would bring them the answers only to learn that it brought even more puzzling questions.

The Antichrist

Exploring the resurgence of religion, the Antichrist concept, and AI’s role in a post-scarcity future.

New at the Belmont Club. With everyone afraid with good reason of attempting regime change, is there a way of altering hostile state behavior incrementally? Is there a way of remodeling enemy nations instead of demolishing and rebuilding them?

Belmont Club: Regime Change

Analysis of risks and strategies of regime change, highlighting incremental approaches in modern geopolitics.