[April 30, 2023] How America cares for its military veterans and their physical and mental health tells us much about the moral standing of America itself. President Lincoln said it best, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Administration is the institution we fund to carry out that moral need. Unfortunately, today, we see the VA regressing to old… Read More »
[April 29, 2023] I thought about writing about how my dog Bella is such a lovely girl but, alas, I figured having a few memes our might be better on a Saturday morning. As the Bud Light boycott continues, I will be sitting back and eating popcorn and smiling.
[April 27, 2023] In 2004, in late August and on a brutally scorching day, my Engineers stood smiling after completing another helicopter-landing pad on Victory Base, Baghdad, Iraq. We were eight months into our combat deployment, and we were experienced professionals, skilled, in high demand, and the very best at what we did. One of my NCOs suggested… Read More »
[April 26, 2023] It has become increasingly clear that the primary contributor to the draconian COVID lockdowns was due to advice given by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Since his retirement, Dr. Fauci has been active in trying to debase that fact publicly. He does so again in a recent interview with a reporter from the New York Times Magazine… Read More »
[April 25, 2023] Eighty years ago, one of the most daring missions of WW2 took place that would have far-reaching implications, even today. In April 1943, American P-38s carried out a near-suicidal mission to intercept and kill Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor raid. This was Operation Vengeance. The story of how the U.S. military… Read More »
[April 24, 2023] The privilege to serve in the military is an opportunity to work with America’s best citizens. They come from all walks of society, backgrounds, education levels, and subcultures, a very diverse mix of upbringing, intellectual capability, and maturity. I saw that Soldiers who grew up without fathers stood out from rest and that this phenomenon… Read More »
[April 21, 2023] Last year, Matt Walsh released a brilliant documentary titled What is a Woman? Just this past October, I wrote about it here. You might think that after all this time, someone might be capable of answering this simple question. I know my seven-year-old granddaughter can answer it. The United States Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona,… Read More »
[April 19, 2023] That day, the senior NCO on duty gave me a simple choice. I was transitioning out of the U.S. Army as an enlisted man, and it was August, a very hot and sweltering day. I could see Soldiers outside mowing the grass on the grassy parade field next to the building where I sat. I… Read More »
[April 16, 2023] One essential behavior about people that we really don’t understand and should understand is that we are inherently unappreciative. Fyodor Dostoevsky insightfully wrote that if you set up a utopia so that all people had to do was eat cake and busy themselves with the continuation of the species (Russian humor), after a short bit… Read More »
[April 14, 2023] I’m not a New Yorker, but I did live in NYC for five years (minus a year in Iraq), where I enjoyed the amenities of living in the Big Apple. Fortunately, my wife Nancy is from NYC (Brooklyn) and acted as an experienced tour guide to all the good things it had to offer. But… Read More »