In the highly-unusual development, our two most popular features this last week were successive columns by Fred Reed, though on entirely different topics.

Ranking first was a lengthy piece ridiculing our current military forces, which seem largely focused on those weapons systems that can produce the greatest profits for contractors without necessarily having any other intended purpose.  The extreme fragility of our ultra-tech ships and aircraft is matched by the increasing fragility of our troops, subject these days to every sort of pathologically PC social policy that also infects civilian life.  Some 300 comments totaling nearly 35,000 words mostly seconded this perspective.

Placing a close second was Fred’s previous column on the terrible state of black-white race-relations in America, with whites mostly being at the short end of the stick with regard to crime, violence, or public insults, and this has drawn over 350 comments, totaling more than 30,000 words.

Third place was held by Philip Giraldi’s focus on the latest absurdities of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, including an apparent attempt to bribe the captain of an Iranian oil tanker to turn pirate and take his cargo to an American-controlled destination.

The fourth-ranking article was a rebuttal to my own longstanding claims that Latino and white relations are quite amicable across most of America, including California, as demonstrated by the great lack of responsiveness of white voters to the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Trump campaign during 2016.  This naturally provoked a heated debate in the comments, which currently total almost 250, amounting to over 30,000 words.

In fifth place was Steve Sailer’s focus on a new academic journal article, once again suggesting a very strong relationship between racial ancestry and IQ scores, a bitterly debated topic in American society that has been raging for more than a half-century.  Nearly 300 comments totaling over 35,000 words continued the argument.

And rounding out our most popular featured articles but coming up very fast was yesterday’s long article by Whitney Webb summarizing the remarkable but memory-holed story of the group of Israeli Mossad agents that were caught celebrating the 9/11 attacks as they occurred, soon arrested and interrogated by the FBI but released and deported back to Israel under enormous political pressure.  The very large number of Mossad agents then in the near vicinity of the attacks, some of whom were caught with explosives, certainly added to the grave suspicions surrounding those events, long forgotten by the MSM.  With continuing strong traffic, this piece seems very likely to soon reach the top spot.