May 8, 2021

Are Republicans serious about defending your right to bear arms?

Twenty states have passed "Constitutional Carry" laws in anticipation of another Democrat gun grab.  While open carry and concealed carry without permit is a shot across the bow, let's not get misty.  Gun control is ...

December 2, 2017

American Exceptionalism and Antifa's Phony War

Antifa poses a problem no one is comfortable with. What's wrong with fighting fascism?  Ever see a movie in which the sallet helmet wasn't a symbol of evil?  Not even Star Wars could resist.  FDR also used some pretty strong...

November 20, 2017

The Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon

If you're not familiar with the term "Perfumed Prince," take a look at Air Force LTG Jay Silveria, Commander of the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. Silveria achieved the national spotlight by chewing out the entire class over ra...

May 16, 2017

North Korea: Not Nerve Gas Again!

I'm no fan of North Korea, but the news media in America need to do better if they're to avoid becoming just as discreditable. The May 15, 2017 Fox News article "UN Agency Helps North Korea with Patent Application for Banned Nerve Gas...

May 14, 2017

Comey's magic words: 'Ain't my job!'

Sorry, but for a guy who has held down real jobs for decades, including at the Department of Defense, firing James Comey was a no-brainer.  But the political pundits on the subject haven't benefitted from their own brainlessness. Charles ...

April 27, 2017

What's really happening in those North Korea parade photos?

North Korea poses a threat and there’s no alternative but to counter it. But the situation is not like this recent “military analysis” on Fox News. North Korea put a variety of new missiles on display during the April 15 par...

April 18, 2017

Imperial Obsession and the War on Terror

That after 16 years of counterinsurgency, we resorted to deploying the largest conventional bomb in our inventory to kill only 36 militants begs a question. How much more of Afghanistan might we have to flatten to defeat an adversary that doesn...

April 7, 2017

Unpacking the Latest Chemical Attack in Syria

The chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, 2017 has aroused a slew of hyperbole of political rhetoric, and it's all predictable.  Each side blames the other. So far, the latest is a replay of the chemical attack on Gouhta...

March 22, 2017

James Comey, the chicken hiding in the woods

Media analysis of the recent testimony by FBI director James Comey  before Congress  misses the forest for the trees. Was Trump Tower wiretapped? Well, who isn't? That was the revelation of Ed Snowden in 2013, something NS...