Category Archives: Respect

Fort Bragg is Back

By | February 13, 2025

[February 13, 2025]  I was one of the few General Officers who publicly denounced the renaming of U.S. military bases.  Fort Bragg was named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, and founded during World War I. Presumably, some Confederate General names were used as part of a broader effort to bring the North and South back together. But now,… Read More »

Persistence Paid Off: Mehmet Kuşman

By | February 12, 2025

[February 12, 2025]  Persistence paid off for a retired guard at Çavuştepe, an ancient Urartian Fortified site in eastern Turkey. Yes, he was a guard at the site to prevent tourists from stealing bits and pieces of priceless artifacts from this archaeological site. Yet, using logic and persistence, he was able to decipher a 3,000-year-old dead language. Mehmet… Read More »

Putting the “E” back in DIME: Economic Power

By | January 29, 2025

[January 29, 2025]  A few days ago, when the United States attempted to return two planeloads of illegal immigrants to the country of Columbia, their president refused to allow the planes to land. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, is a radical Marxist who is hated in his own country. Donald Trump would have none of this Marxist drivel when… Read More »

Meet the First Paraplegic Firefighter 

By | January 17, 2025

[January 17, 2025]  Satire is a form of beauty, and one of the very best portrayals of this form is The Babylon Bee. This site publishes satirical articles on various hot-topic issues. Their latest is a short clip purporting to interview the first paraplegic firefighter. “Meet John Larson, a paraplegic firefighter who is breaking barriers, much like the… Read More »

Why the Chinese are Not Welcome 

By | January 16, 2025

[January 16, 2025]  I found an interesting take on why the Chinese people are almost universally not welcome anywhere outside China. ShanShan, in a recent video, attempted to explain the contrast among Asians, with the Chinese being an outlier. ShanShan claims that it was China’s Cultural Revolution that destroyed the humanity of Chinese society. She claims that the… Read More »