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This month, though, Marvel officially declared the Punisher persona non grata, eliminating the character as readers know him. Did he go out in a blaze of glory? No, in typical woke fashion Frank Castle is captured by progressive heroes, chained up and forced to go through a struggle session in which he is admonished as a murderer and a terrorist. Marvel even brings the Punisher’s wife back from the dead, only so that she can divorce him and take his money and property, and then inform him that his lifelong crusade against the criminal underworld was all for nothing. The...

...In his campaign trail, Duterte had promised to eradicate criminality by focusing on corruption and illegal drugs. He even promised to kill thousands of criminals engaged in such activities and dump their bodies in Manila Bay. Early in office, he said what was left from his campaign funds will be used as reward to those who will kill or catch drug pushers. Popularly known as “The Punisher,” Duterte was once accused of being on top of the Davao Death Squad, a vigilante group responsible for the deaths of more than a thousand suspected criminals in Davao City where Duterte served...

During a Monday evening Donald Trump campaign rally in New Hampshire, a self-described "celebrity boxer" attacked a protester who shouted "fascist" at the presidential candidate. Todd "The Punisher" Poulton-who has previously gone in the ring against former baseball star Jose Canseco and celebrity dad Michael Lohan-can be seen on video pouncing on an unidentified male with long hair who disrupted the Republican front-runner's event. As seen in the photo above, Poulton sports a face tatto mimicking that of professional boxing legend Mike Tyson.

The XM-25, Counter Defilade Target Engagement System with 25mm rounds, is semi-automatic, and includes fully integrated day/night, full-solution target acquisition/fire control. Soldiers in the field have given it the nickname “The Punisher.” ... In one engagement, an enemy machine gunner was “so badly wounded or so freaking scared that he dropped [his] weapon” and ran, said Lt. Col. Christopher Lehner, Program Manager Individual WeaponsThere were no casualties among units carrying the XM25 in those nine engagements, Lehner said. “No longer can the enemy shoot at American forces, then hide behind something,” said Brig. Gen. Peter Fuller of Program Executive Office...

The Punisher, Marvel Comics’ avenging vigilante, has become a radical. As well as taking out organized crime kingpins and thugs, he’s now taking on U.S. Intelligence and undermining support for the War on Terrorism. The publication of these comic book polemics coincides with the April release of the feature film “The Punisher” starring Thomas Jane and John Travolta. Leftist propagandizing is not new to Marvel, nor to the author of the Punisher series, Irishman Garth Ennis. Two months after September 11th, the Punisher was featured threatening the life of President George W. Bush. The story portrays the President as a...