Iraq War Pre-Surge: Knowing the Key Players

By | June 12, 2025

[June 12, 2025]  Of all my combat tours in the Iraq War, this one would provide my Facilities team and me with the greatest responsibilities and hardest challenges. I was lucky in many aspects of this job, including having some truly professional-level officers working for me, highly educated, experienced, and – importantly – dedicated to getting the job… Read More »

“Hey You, Retard”

[June 8, 2025]  Attending the ninth grade, at a Little Rock junior high school, a teacher called over to me, yelling “Hey you, retard.”  I was setting up starting blocks for an upcoming 50-yard dash event at the outdoor track. “Yeah you, retard.”  He was going to chew me out for setting the blocks incorrectly. Kids will use… Read More »

Thoughts on the Historic Battle of D-Day

[June 6, 2025]  Undoubtedly, one of the greatest battles of World War II on the Western Front is the invasion of Normandy. D-Day, the famous landings on June 6, 1944 was designed to destroy the Nazi occupation of Western Europe. British historian James Holland discusses this battle in an interview with Alex Friman. When the Americans joined the… Read More »

An Illiterate College Student

[June 5, 2025] I often hear that America’s education system is failing. And there is considerable evidence to support that claim, and perhaps that is why there is an effort to cut Federal funding to colleges that allow illiterate students to attend. With the problem of college-based Leftist indoctrination to the side, colleges have lowered their academic standards… Read More »

Locus of Evil

[June 4, 2025]  In an opinion article by John Hinderaker, titled The Locus of Evil, he describes Gaza as one of the “most benighted places on Earth.”  And there is little doubt that it is the most unenlightened, backward, uncivilized, barbaric, and one of the darkest places in all of humanity. “It has virtually no economy; it is… Read More »

Is Russia Burning?

[June 3, 2025] If it were not for a few dedicated followers of the war in Ukraine, I would have missed reporting on Sunday about Ukraine’s attacks deep into Russian territory.  Ukraine’s innovative strategy did lasting damage to the Russian government. The question we must now ask: Is Russia burning? From a small number of observers who’ve been… Read More »