March 21, 2025

Deadly consequences when judges play president

It appears that a federal judge is determined to bring out in public the aircraft flight plans of criminal gang members flying from America to El Salvador.  It is a stupid, foolish, and potentially life-threatening request. As reported T...

January 24, 2025

If this is war, so be it

America has been placed on a wartime footing in a military engagement against an illegal invasion, and it is one that we cannot afford to lose. President and Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump has just focused on the U.S. military to make the defense...

November 24, 2024

Escalation control: The challenge and opportunity for Trump 2.0

Escalation control is always important when engaging in conflict. But there is no escalation control if you don’t know your objectives or the end state toward which you’re directing lethal force when engaged in conflict. When engaged i...

October 17, 2024

SpaceX just changed everything for space launch and recovery

For those who lived through the '60s, it was a decade of tragedy and triumph. The often deadly quest for civil rights for Black Americans was a battle well worth fighting.   The tragedy of Vietnam for those of us in uniform, (pers...

October 1, 2024

Madame Vice President, we are at war

Vice president and Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has set an impressive bar for word salad.  But in one recent, exceptional statement, she was crystal-clear in her ignorance: Vice President Kamala Harris declared on...

August 11, 2024

The media attacking JD Vance need to walk the walk

It’s to be hoped that, by now, many voters—Republican, Democrat, and Independents— know that the current Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Waltz of the “Harris/Waltz” ticket symbolically threw down his rifle and ran off th...

July 17, 2024

The beginning of the end of lawfare—one hopes

The legal brilliance of Justice Thomas was evident when he absolutely nailed the fatal flaw in the Biden administration’s lawfare appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel in his opinion on the scope of presidential immunity. “A pri...

June 29, 2024

Please do not shoot at the thermonuclear weapons!

In the 1990s, I had the chance as U.S. staff secretary to the political arm of NATO, the North Atlantic Assembly, to visit Ukraine. On one trip, our delegation was hosted by the CNO of the Ukraine Navy.  Even then, Ukraine was a proud bu...

January 15, 2024

Lloyd Austin and our government’s lack of accountability

Very early in serving in uniform in the US Military, one learns a very important ironclad rule of leadership; namely, that you can delegate responsibility but not accountability. When Secretary Lloyd Austin was exposed for having committed the horren...

January 8, 2024

What would the iconic Forrest Gump drill instructor say about Lloyd Austin?

“You are a [expletive] genius Gump!” That famous line, recited by the iconic Army drill instructor in the film Forrest Gump, was funny on many levels; the late Winston Groom, author of the novel behind the production, was himself a Vie...

December 19, 2023

In The Swamp Of Academia, Cornell’s President Has Taken A Principled Stand

Courage is assumed when one joins the US Marines. After all, the Marines are known for fostering and appreciating physical courage, but they’re also taught to always look for moral, ethical, and intellectual courage. Those are cherished attribu...

November 28, 2023

Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue: An Israeli all-female tank crew took the fight to the terrorists

The “Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue” headline for this article was first said about Marines in the battle for Iwo Jima. Marines assaulting the island fortress showed innovative courage and total dedication to the mission.  It...

November 5, 2023

Even President Eisenhower’s visionary brilliance wasn’t enough

In this horrific time, which sees us witness a resurgence of anti-Semitism in both the United States and globally, we should remember the unflinching action of then-General Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, who re...

June 24, 2023

US general officers being protected from embarrassment?

In a chilling and insightful report from The Intercept, a symbolic fire bell in the night is ringing about a very real threat from a U.S. Army surveillance state initiative. In essence, the U.S. Army has initiated an Information War (IW) aga...

June 13, 2023

Biden, Trump, and the emerging Democrat MAGA movement

President Biden and his political team, aided and abetted by MSM hacks, are trying to drive a wedge among Republican voters. President Biden laid out the terms of his upcoming reelection campaign — claiming "MAGA Republicans...

January 21, 2023

The Agent Orange precedent is helping the military come to terms with the potential health issues created by the COVID vaccine mandate

Despite the good intentions of two American presidents, United States military personnel have been exposed to substances that later proved to be potentially harmful to their health.  Thanks to the decades of struggle to recognize the nation...

November 30, 2022

Here are some veterans' oversight issues the new GOP-led House should focus on

With the return of Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming 118th Congress, their constitutionally empowered oversight function will bring much needed transparency to the Biden administration's activity. Alr...

October 5, 2022

The US Navy is taking Vladimir Putin very seriously

Russian president Vladimir Putin put the world on strategic nuclear alert with an ominous message.  He linked his threat to use nuclear weapons with justification of the U.S. ending WWII by bombing Japan with two atomic bombs. MOSCOW, Sept ...

September 25, 2022

Regarding Putin and his nuclear threats, think the unthinkable, and prepare

As President Reagan’s Principal Director of Mobilization and Planning in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the 1980s, I was responsible for the Department of Defense’s responsibilities for Civil Defense for all Americans. Thos...

August 7, 2022

Now the truth begins to emerge

Reflecting on the strategic importance of U.S. air power in Iraq, which also held true for Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula of the United States Air Force, nailed the argument in a 2014 Washington Post article. Deptula, who orchestrated and led pre...

June 6, 2022

Biden administration breaks a sacred trust with America's veterans

Sadly, the tragically ironic saying about the Department of Veterans' Affairs' operations is once again appropriate: "deny, delay, death." Denis McDonough, a non-veteran, was sworn in to be the secretary of Veterans' Affairs....

May 7, 2022

Amazing times: Even the socialists are upset with the Democrat leadership

A priceless moment in history was just created by Speaker Pelosi. Irony of ironies, the far-left World Socialist Web Site just called out the incredibly stupid and foolish statements she made on her April 30,2022 visit to Ukraine: O...

March 8, 2022

With a nuclear power at war, we must have complete clarity about events

For more than three decades, we've lived without the threat of nuclear war.  That means that the knowledge gained during the Cold War about nuclear deterrence has largely been lost.  In addition, the nature of nuclear war itse...

January 19, 2022

Rather be 'us' or 'them'?

In every election cycle, battle lines are drawn up, and for each party, there is a simple question that can frame the coming election: Would you rather be us, or them? In the 2022 midterms, it is fair to look at “us” as the Republ...

January 14, 2022

The end of unknown COVID fear-mongering

The risks and consequences of COVID have been globally active for over two years.  With such a passage of time, doctors, scientists, and mathematicians are finally beginning to collect sufficient data to take the politics, posturing, and sh...

December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas, America -- the veterans are coming

Recently, three US Army pensioners took to a fainting couch while even perhaps symbolically clutching their pearls to issue a dire warning about the 2024 election: “In short: We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding ne...

October 18, 2021

There is still time to turn Virginia completely red

Fortuitously, Virginia is having a statewide election for both its Executive Branch and all seats in its Legislative Branch. The Virginia state Republican Party is not conceding any ground in either contest arena, vowing to mak...

October 14, 2021

The Scheller case: 'Fight On' on several levels

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller, USMC has been charged with six violations of the UCMJ, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, surrounding his criticism of Joe Biden and the many generals involved in the disastrous Afghanistan pullou...

October 7, 2021

In Virginia governor's race, all politics is local

The governor’s race in Virginia is important on many levels. The coming election test between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat former Gov. Terry McAuliffe is seen as an early harbinger for the very important national mid-term in 2022...

September 30, 2021

Across-the-board failure at the highest level of our military

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller is confined to the brig because, to put it in Marine speak, because he would not "STFU" about holding leaders accountable.  I will leave it to a military judge to review his being silenced with brig confin...

September 28, 2021

Marine officer who questioned military leadership's handing of Afghanistan surrender reportedly imprisoned

So far, there is not even a hint of any accountability for the military leadership that handed over vital weapons and facilities, making the Taliban the best-armed terrorists in history.  But for a brave Marine who criticized them, imprison...

September 2, 2021

When it comes to Lt. Col. Scheller, our leadership class is going full Soviet

In the late 1960s, the Beatles spoofed the Beach Boys' music with their parody entitled "Back in the USSR."  Now that the USSR, which President Reagan accurately branded as the "Evil Empire," is rendered kaput, the s...

August 31, 2021

When the Devil grabs you by the throat

We have just experienced the greatest political/military defeat in American history.  It is a historic watershed moment of presidential ineptitude and piss-poor senior military judgment on a grand scale. Because of the actions of a moral...

August 28, 2021

Twenty-five minutes to infamy

On what was arguably the worst day of Joe Biden's presidency, he was scheduled to address America and the world at 5 P.M. on August 26, 2021.  We'd been told earlier that day that the president and commander-in-chief was going to ad...

August 18, 2021

It's time to hold the Intelligence Community to account for its abject failures

Watching the Fall of South Vietnam as a Marine captain was one too many embassy evacuations for a lifetime.  With the disastrous collapse of the Afghan Army, and the next round of an American defeat stamped indelibly on the pages of our his...

July 31, 2021

The Coming Battle For Taiwan And The Nobel Peace Prize

There’s a good argument to be made that the Nobel Peace Prize committee, when it comes to American politicians, awards them to those politicians who have dragged their nation leftward. It is possible, looking at the brewing situation between Ch...

July 11, 2021

Will Terry McAuliffe turn Virginia red?

In the current hothouse political debates about the course of the future of the United States, the shorthand phrase of Democrat Blue States vs. Republican Red States is in shorthand vogue. The 2021 Virginia governor’s election is by ma...

June 26, 2021

The Virginia governor's race could predict who takes the White House in 2024

There is a saying in American Politics: "As Maine goes, so goes the nation."  Today, in this 2021 Virginia off-year election, one may substitute Virginia for Maine as regards 2022 even 2024. At least that is the opinion express...

April 27, 2021

Virginia GOP foolishly and inexplicably disenfranchises Orthodox Jewish voters

[UPDATE: The Virginia Republican Party reversed its decision enabling both Jews and Seventh Day Adventists to cast their votes before the sabbath. Read the original story, below.] Both New Jersey and Virginia have an odd-year cycle in voting for t...

February 13, 2021

A lesson in humility and meritocracy, Marine style

Col. John R. Bourgeois, USMC (ret.) has just had his autobiography published: Play On! A Marine's Musical Journey from the Bayou to the White House.  Colonel Bourgeois was the twenty-fifth director of the Marine band, known as the ...

January 15, 2021

Who's first in line for the COVID vaccines at the Department of Veterans' Affairs?

I recently wrote an American Thinker post about vaccine priorities at the Department of Veterans' Affairs.  When I inquired about availability of the COVID vaccine for the veterans at the Washington V.A. Medical Center, I was told to ca...

January 11, 2021

The beginning of Democrat Weltschmerz

As Monica Showalter wrote in a funny American Thinker piece titled “Sunday Schadenfreude” describing a Vogue magazine cover of Kamala Harris “ looking like a clown in a suit” I think she is on to something in using b...

January 6, 2021

Vaccine priorities: Why Americans have good reason to despise Congress

The road distance between the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Washington D.C. and the U.S. Capitol is less than four miles. As far as Congress caring for combat disabled veterans and our fellow veterans who have had a rough go, imp...

December 20, 2020

The Attorney General cannot exonerate the CIA

A little-known, little-discussed stepping stone on his journey to becoming President Trump’s Attorney General is the fact that Bill Barr worked for the CIA during his George Washington law school days. He and I were on the analytical side o...

December 12, 2020

Dred Scott II: The second judicial civil war is now upon America

America has now entered the second Supreme Court judicial civil war in our history. The Supreme Court was asked to adjudicate a momentous case from Texas, essentially a state vs. state dispute, and, so far, they took a pass. Call it a civil war. ...

November 30, 2020

Assassinating Iran's chief nuclear weapon scientist Moshsen Fakrizadeh vs. assassinating Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich

Moshsen Fakrizadeh, Iran's chief nuclear weapon scientist, was assassinated when his car was ambushed.  It was a daring raid with significant global ramifications.  And right on cue, for some reason, the BBC decided ...

November 10, 2020

The tide is already turning for President Trump

Attorney General Barr just mobilized the Department of Justice to engage as appropriate to investigate election fraud throughout America.  He is on solid legal ground.  It is a very simple means of addressing the greatest att...

November 7, 2020

Many reasons for optimism as Election 2020 rages on

It has often called a battle for the White House when, in fact, in this 2020 presidential election, it is a campaign, made up of many skirmishes and battles.  Make no mistake: it is a campaign for the future of America, and so far President...

October 21, 2020

Exposing how little football commentators know about our military

Both Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were caught on hot mic mocking and complaining about a military flyover of an NFL game.  Buck is an athletic no-load, but Aikerman had an accomplished football career "That's your hard-earned money ...

September 16, 2020

Socialism the big unspoken reason why so many Latinos support Trump

President Trump recently held a roundtable discussion with members of the Hispanic community in Las Vegas and as reported by One America News he stressed his belief in that community's values: "Hispanic Americans embody the America...

August 30, 2020

A cautionary warning about Chief Justice Roberts

With the brilliant RNC convention closed and the great marathon of our Presidential election entering the final sprint to the finish, American voters face a potential storm that, if not addressed early, has the potential to destroy our country. T...

March 22, 2020

Media showing their inner 'Mean Girls' more and more each day

It looks as though, in this time of wokeness running amuck, we all are being instructed that we live in a "gender-fluid America."  Consequently, if that is the case, I can be on strong ground and not accused of a dreaded sexism ch...

March 14, 2020

World War C has begun, and President Trump is fighting to win

"World War C" can be taken in  two ways: a war against coronavirus (COVID-19) or a world war against China,  which is now being found out as the country responsible for unleashing a pandemic on the world.  In tim...

February 24, 2020

Sanders glosses over Cuba, hoping you've forgotten its aggressive history

In his 60 Minutes interview, Bernie Sanders praised Cuba, giving its detested communist regime props for its vaunted literacy program and free health care, two propaganda points the Castro oligarchy has dined out on for decades among the lefty shills...

February 22, 2020

US Navy shows more proof Trump's not Putin's dupe

By what standard does the geriatric anti-Trump boys' club of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et al. have standing to say President Putin is favoring and aiding President Trump in the 2020 election?  Sadly, perhaps too much geritol and vodka ar...

January 31, 2020

Chief Justice John Roberts strikes out

Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't seem to have the judicial acumen of a traffic court judge.  During the course of the impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, Americans have now seen the chief justice have three historical strikes. ...

January 22, 2020

Could Chief Justice Roberts make it as a traffic court judge?

Anyone who has ever been pulled over for a traffic violation knows the drill.  Below a certain threshold, such as driving while intoxicated or another egregious violation that impounds your car and sends you directly to jail, you are issued...

January 18, 2020

Searching for a defining quote

As the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump begins, it is important to inoculate the proceedings from a Democrat senator coming up with a defining quote.  Each moment in American history finally settles into words that capture the ev...

January 15, 2020

Chief Justice Roberts: The unseen impeachment missile

Since the dawn of anti-aircraft missiles, a sage warning has been passed down from combat aviator to combat aviator as they do mission planning: be alert — it is often the unseen missile that will kill you.  As the House forwards its ...

January 7, 2020

Trump hitting Soleimani channels Teddy Roosevelt

Over a century ago, a wealthy New Yorker, Theodore Roosevelt, became our 26th American president, and history has recognized him as one of our great presidents.  In fact, he received a Nobel Peace Prize for a real achievement in putting an ...

December 25, 2019

Christmas joy in the Age of Trump

There is a saying that has resonated with me since the first time I heard it.  I am sorry I cannot give credit to the original author.  "A person often does not know that he is happy, but he most certainly knows when he was h...

December 18, 2019

Some new questions as FISA court malfeasance details come out

One rule of leadership is that if you can't delegate, you are dead (metaphorically). Secretive Surveillance Court Rebukes FBI Over Handling of Surveillance of Trump Aide Presiding judge describes recent Inspector General report as 'trou...

December 12, 2019

After that IG report, what now, Chief Justice Roberts?

Perhaps one of the biggest "oh, no" moments in American history has been identified in the Horowitz Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General report.  We further determined that FBI officials at every level concur...

November 22, 2019

Chief Justice Roberts now dragged into Democrat impeachment process

The target of Democrat zealots in the House of Representatives led by Speaker Pelosi and Adam Schiff is to impeach and remove President Donald Trump.  Sadly for him, the person they have a much higher probability of removing from his lofty ...

November 17, 2019

Stop the madness before the Democrats destroy the Constitution

There is one huge constitutional issue for any Senate impeachment trial that our current lightweight elected pols have not considered. The Democrats and their fake news enablers have staged a nasty fabricated show in the House, and the Senate, res...

October 22, 2019

Laws against seditious conspiracy have real legal teeth

News flash for all Deep State conspirators: we have a lawfully elected President who is at the top of the Executive Branch of US Government.  As such, President Trump represents one third of our constitutionally empowered leadership and is ...

October 8, 2019

How impeachment works: A Clinton impeachment veteran lays it out

Chairman Adam Schiff is the current personification of the adage that lying liars lie.  Unfortunately for him and his Democrat caucus, he isn't very good at it.  His lying to the American people lacks the great panache of a Bi...

August 31, 2019

Follow the money if the PLA kills the Hong Kong protesters

Few understand how big an influence Hong Kong money is on the PRC. Over two decades ago I followed that money. In The Year of The Rat days in the late nineties, as the financial crimes investigator for the House Committee on Rules, I followed the ...

August 10, 2019

Nadler’s phony ‘impeachment inquiry’ talk will run smack into the House Rules Committee

Chairman Jerry Nadler appears to be an intellectually limited man or at least he plays one on TV.  His leader in the House, Speaker Pelosi, can run from an “Impeachment Inquiry” but she cannot hide if it begins to become a formal pro...

July 26, 2019

Why President Trump should be questioning the DoD 'cloud' contracting process

On July 18, 2019, Jeff Bezos’s ethically conflicted Washington Post put out another negative report about President Trump, this time in his capacity as commander in chief, challenging a $10 billion contract for essentially a...

July 17, 2019

President Trump just stopped a very bad idea

It was just announced that President Trump told the nation of Turkey: No F-35s for you. It was a brilliant move by a commander-in-chief who anticipates threats to U.S. fighting forces and acts decisively. “We are now telling Turkey ... we...

July 10, 2019

Speaking of willies: In Epstein case, Bill Clinton is going to find himself politically expendable

With the Epstein child-molesting scandal now breaking, attention is building for the most famous Democrat on the roster of Epstein's travel-mates, former president Bill Clinton.  At long last, he may finally be going down. He...

June 27, 2019

The Venezuela endgame

It now looks like President Trump is teaching his appointees how to do the unexpected. As his own action officer he has had to personally create strategic maneuvering space to motivate a peaceful regime change in Venezuela.    He astutel...

May 23, 2019

President Trump leads the way in Venezuela

President Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize and did nothing as Venezuela spiraled into poverty, despair, and murder while becoming a narcotics money-fueled failed state run by emerging war criminals. President Trump simply took direct action by reac...

May 12, 2019

Pompeo’s Mission to Moscow could pave the way for Maduro to exit Venezuela

There is the possibility of a good resolution of the dangerous events transpiring in Venezuela. After an historic call during very difficult days for the citizens of Venezuela, President Trump engaged with President Putin. There is now a chance to...

May 9, 2019

While Trump tries to save Venezuela, Senate Democrats block his appointments

President Trump has created strategic maneuvering space way short of war in Venezuela by picking up the phone and engaging with President Putin.  One goal agreed on during the historic call is the need for significant humanitarian aid to Ve...

May 7, 2019

How Trump is turning around the failing efforts to oust Maduro

Venezuela is a campaign, not a battle.  Keeping momentum for change in Venezuela is critical, as the corrupt failure of socialism with a totalitarian regime ruling at the point of a gun has not yet resulted in collapse. NSC director Bolt...

May 1, 2019

Still time to debate any US engagement in Venezuela

Very brave Venezuelan citizens are showing the courage to put their lives on the line to achieve a better life for their families and fellow citizens. There are several similar but different episodes in recent history of a people’s quest at the...

April 26, 2019

Dorian Gray enters the race for president

Joe Biden just announced for president with the best campaign ad that his politically driven scientific polling could devise.  The opening round of his campaign video features a shot of the famous Marine flag rising on Mount Suribachi durin...

April 1, 2019

General Flynn has been grievously wronged, and Defense Department archives may have the evidence

It has now become clear that General Michael Flynn was set up and sandbagged by rogue FBI agents while the national security director, Susan Rice, an agent for President Obama, was orchestrating a domestic political intelligence operation of historic...

March 27, 2019

The Incalculable Damage of the Russia Hoax

With powerful free press constitutional safe guards, Americans have empowered our media with an important mission in an informed democracy: reporting accurately with full transparency on important events.  Now with the Russia! Russia! Russia! Tr...

March 14, 2019

A real doomsday bomb from President Putin?

Is President Putin diabolically smart or simply a psychopath?  Perhaps he is both, because by his direct action, the world is now a much more dangerous place as the former KGB officer creates a nuclear doomsday scenario backed by real Russi...

February 27, 2019

US air power scares the Russian bear

USAF chief of staff General David Goldfein, reflecting on the success of the F-35 at a recent USAF "Red Flag" exercise, gave both the People's Liberation Air Force and the Russians what we fighter pilots call a "face shot." ...

February 17, 2019

Meet Monica Witt, the traitorous Iran defector you never heard of

Monica Elfried Witt served in the USAF, first flying classified missions and then in the U.S. counterintelligence community.  She defected to Iran in 2013.  She is a dangerous Iranian intelligence asset on so many levels. ...

February 10, 2019

Acting AG Matthew Whitaker: Football impresario, stomper of Democrats

The Judiciary Committee hearing on February 8, 2019, held by Chairman Nadler (D-N.Y.) with committee witness Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, became an epic historic failure.  Acting A.G. Whitaker's testimony is for the ages. ...

February 3, 2019

In the wake of Northam, some truly hollow men

The  introductory stanza  from the great poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S Eliot has no better description to capture the actions of all the men involved in the events of the last few days in the great Commonwealth of Virginia i...

January 23, 2019

People who want to put kids in a wood chipper should maybe be on the no-fly list

America can be proud that in a moment of an ugly attack against children, a prosecutor has entered the engagement to bring accountability and justice to some stupid and hateful people. Rob Sanders, a Kenton County Prosecutor, confirmed Tuesday t...

January 17, 2019

Speaker Pelosi apparently forgot she also has a police force

House speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter on January 16, 2019 to President Trump asking him to reschedule his upcoming State of the Union because of security concerns: Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I...

January 3, 2019

Does China's Admiral Luo Yuen understand that we shoot back?

A Chinese admiral in the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) named Luo Yuan* just told America we had best sound General Quarters.  ("Sound General Quarters – all hands man your battle station" is a Navy term ...

December 31, 2018

Mr. Chief Justice: What are you doing about the fraud on the FISA Court you supervise?

A Politico article by an experienced attorney, Nelson Cunningham, raises an interesting legal question: We're about to find out why the chief justice of the Supreme Court decided to get involved in the special counsel's investi...

December 11, 2018

Words have meaning, John Brennan

Has former CIA director John Brennan just made a very public threat against the physical well-being of the president of the United States?  Director Brennan often comes across as an angry, ignorant man and may have just displayed proof of b...

December 8, 2018

No way out for Clinton, Inc. corruption this time

The legal dodge used by James Comey to exonerate Hillary Clinton from her prima facie crimes in using an unsecured server for official business won’t be any help to the Clinton Foundation as it faces charges coming from whistleblowers. Clint...

December 5, 2018

Trump's Enemies: A Book for the Ages

Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a seminal book as critical participants in one of the most historic events in American history.  Their book is about the triumphs and setbacks of the campaign of Donald Trump to be elected the...

November 25, 2018

History shows President Trump fully understands posse comitatus

It has been reported that there was a robust WH debate over the scope of empowering the US Military to assist in border protection, as the issue of posse comitatus was being discussed: The White House late Tuesday signed a memo allowing tr...

November 17, 2018

Just try behaving like Acosta in a federal courtroom

You’ve no doubt already hear the big news from yesterday: U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, an appointee of President Donald Trump, announced his decision at a hearing Friday morning. The judge said Acosta’s credentials should...

November 14, 2018

One of the most ignorant anti-Trump Stories yet

A lot of commentators are slamming President Trump for not attending a commemoration ceremony in France for the end of World War 1 at the American cemetery at Aisne-Marnes. There’s a lot snark, typified by this from James Fallows of The Atlanti...

November 11, 2018

Why get captured in fighting the last war of the Florida recount process?

The shame of south Florida rigging elections is now evident. Even the New York Times captures a moment of truth that actually shows why this Florida recount is different than the horrific 2000 Presidential Process. It’s Déjà Vu...

October 6, 2018

If Christine Ford's lawyer needs a lawyer, the fat lady's singing

America now knows that Dr. Ford had her high school friend, the retired FBI-DOJ special agent Monica McLean, who is also a lawyer, involved with her and present for  her Senate testimony.  Thanks to Wall Street Journal reporting, ...

October 4, 2018

High school antics 1964 – and The War

As a proud graduate from an American high school in the Class of '64, I'll say we most certainly had our moments of fun.  But by the newly created Kavanaugh Standards, most of my fellow male classmates would probably now be eliminat...

September 30, 2018

Democrats ask for the FBI and now they’d better be prepared for the consequences

Over the next week the FBI will collect evidence and report back to the Senate what they could find out about in any discrepancies in the testimony of both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Ford. In the course of their hurry-up full field effort very ...

September 19, 2018

Professor Ford: Be careful what you wish for

I've been through the process of Senate advise-and-consent confirmation, including an FBI background investigation, and must warn Professor Christine Blasey to be careful what she wishes for: A woman who has accused President Donald Tru...

September 11, 2018

Mister Chief Justice: You have a major problem

The chief justice of the Supreme Court is ultimately responsible for protecting all Americans from the growing evil of the 21st-century surveillance state.  This is because the FISC judges are unique in American history and are the wholly o...

August 25, 2018

The Washington scandal volcano is rumbling

In D.C., when the gods are angered, the P.R. volcano needs human sacrifices, but it will not get President Trump.  As the Drudge Report featured, it could have been considered a "Hell Day" for the president when Paul Manafort got hi...

August 17, 2018

Did James Clapper meet with Bruce and Nellie Ohr?

It is essential to untangle a conspiracy in order to bring full transparency on the actions of senior players in their anti-constitutional mission to destroy Donald Trump by all means possible while they were operating at the highest levels of the De...

July 23, 2018

A new day is dawning at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Well into his second year in office, President Trump is seen as a  serious man living every day in the White House dedicated to initiating the changes he campaigned on. Trump Nation sees a fighter on its behalf in the Churchill mode: ...

July 18, 2018

Trump and Putin take steps to save lives

When American military lives are at risk the world media should focus on the words spoken in Helsinki with some hope.  An ugly US vs. USSR Cold War incident that cost the lives of three USAF officers bears witness to the promise of better r...

July 14, 2018

Seriously: Call in the Secret Service to investigate Special Agent Strzok

I was serious when I initially called for the Secret Service to interview FBI special agent Peter Strzok in a previous American Thinker article: A group of individuals with badges and guns who threaten to "stop" the president of the Un...

June 25, 2018

What to do when anti-Trump zealots cross the line into violence or even chargeable menacing

Having served on active duty in uniform from 1965 to 1975, first at the U.S. Naval Academy and then as a Marine officer, I found it sad to feel hate when members of the public called us baby-killers and worse.  The worse included at ti...

June 16, 2018

A necessary question for IG Horowitz when he testifies Monday

Michael Horowitz, the DOJ inspector general, will testify Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defending his report.  He will be praised and attacked for his work product.  But the politics ultimately will take a back sea...

June 15, 2018

A former IG investigator looks at the DOJ IG report

Having worked directly with FBI as the DOD representative serving on "The National Counter Intelligence Executive Committee," I would trust my family's life with all the FBI special agents I was honored to work with. Tragically, I ne...

June 8, 2018

'Investigation of the investigators' begins

Michael Caputo, the former Trump campaign staffer whose finances were almost ruined by Robert Mueller's investigators into the phony Russiagate issue and who said "God d--- you to Hell" to the Senate Intelligence Committee, must be...

April 25, 2018

Media launching smear campaign against Trump's physician

CNN and many other news organizations have already tried and convicted a Navy combat doctor, Admiral Ronny Jackson, M.C., USN.  This is really a political hit directed against President Trump.  Essentially the MSM and Democrat ena...

April 9, 2018

A ‘Strategic Pause’ to Fix the Department of Veterans Affairs

President Trump actually gave President Obama a vote of confidence in his elevating Dr. David Shulkin in rank from Undersecretary for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)  last year. Now t...

March 6, 2018

Anti-military posturing surfaces hard with Burlington, Vermont vote today

The citizens of Burlington, Vermont have presented a public opportunity to frame both sides of moral debate.  There is a non-binding ballot measure today, Tuesday, March 6, to allow the good citizens of Burlington to express their displeasu...

January 6, 2018

Another shrink breaks ethics rules by diagnosing Trump secondhand as insane

Having been successful in writing nonfiction books and recognizing I have zero talent for fiction, I found my writing niche at Regnery Press.  As a proud Regnery bestselling author, I fully supported Marji Ross's shunning of the NYT bes...

October 29, 2017

Mueller facing a historic legal blowback

One would think a combat Marine officer who served in Vietnam would be sensitive to the premature death of his fellow warriors due to Agent Orange cancers and other terminal diseases.  Less than a third of us are still alive, with an average age...

October 21, 2017

The long history of Russians trying to bribe Clinton, Inc.

I am an original source on Russian bribes, having been part of a 60 Minutes story with the late Mike Wallace in 1998. As a congressional investigator for the House Committee on Rules, we had the "impeachment inquiry," and I was tasked to...

December 17, 2014

Information War: Not Quiet on the Hollywood Front

Whether you love or hate the individuals involved in creating movies, in what is known as the Hollywood Dream Factory, they have been a tremendous global force for good for America.  American-made movies have moved the world in a very positive w...

November 28, 2014

Chuck Hagel is not yet gone, and will not be forgotten

Chuck Hagel is a friend and a man I truly admire.  It took two acts to place him in a group of truly admirable individuals. The first was his decorated combat service in a very unpopular war.  He has two purple hearts from decorated serv...

June 30, 2014

Lois Lerner Fights Back!

Just when the media is beginning to really pressure Congress to grant Lois Learner immunity – “the American people need to know, so let her talk” – her lawyer plays the Sergeant Schultz card from Hogan’s Heroes.  ...

June 19, 2014

The Next Chapter in Iraq: Airpower and Boots on the Ground

The complexities of US re-engaging in Iraq are captured in a very thoughtful article in the Washington Post, with a quote from Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula USAF (ret) who correctly summarizes the situation and asks exactly the right question.  ...

May 28, 2014

Hillary's Chinese Espionage Problem

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new book out. In keeping with the adage “there is no such thing as bad publicity” the title will not be mentioned. However, Clinton Inc. sycophants will do everything possible to hype...

November 5, 2012

Barack Æthelred Obama

The New York Times is now allowing the President's team to try and throw the US Military under the very crowded pile of people and institutions squashed by his reelection bus. "An examination of these tumultuous events [in Benghazi] undercuts the cr...

November 4, 2012

Obama Lost the Battle of Benghazi

Hollywood, according to the New York Times is trying to really embellish President's Obama role in the SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden "Thanks to the magic of editing, President Obama will have a starring role in a television drama about one of...

August 31, 2012

The Greatest Piece of Performance Art in American Political History

Americans  have a firm appreciation for sports metaphors. So if one looks at our political process to select the President as the "Super Bowl" then it could be implied that the two conventions are the first and second quarters respectively. The...

January 7, 2012

It took just a week for 2012 to become a very dangerous year

On the eve of Pearl Harbor day 2011, a question was asked after the leader of the Peoples Republic of China made a significantly bellicose statement to all PLA forces especially the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) . President Hu of the Peoples Re...

December 1, 2011

Medal of Honor recipient continues to demonstrate courage

A very public fight has broken out because a US Marine made a stand. Olivia Katrandjian of ABC News reports: Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable In March 2011, Meyer began working at BAE Systems, a British m...

August 18, 2011

What About the Enlisted Ranks?

The Obama administration has finally figured out how to bring class warfare to the American military.  The recent announcement from the Defense Business Board about changing the retirement promise to members of the Armed Forces has accomplished ...

April 18, 2011

Hope is not a Strategy

President Obama is now hearing thunder from his left.  On April 15 2011, Jason Ditz, writing in the blog antiwar.com, took on directly the President's Libyan folly:"Obama Admits Libyan War a ‘Stalemate'  Says He Expects War Will ...

April 5, 2011

The Children's Crusade

Both Russia and the Peoples Republic of China abstained on the vote for "UN Security Council Resolution 1973."  It may turn out to have been a smart move for their national interests. It is now possible that no matter how the Libyan Wa...

March 25, 2011

Crusaders at Work

A much honored, even legendary term from history, "Crusaders", has fallen by the wayside in this era of political correctness and American engagements in Middle East wars. In fact, a Marine Fighter Squadron, VMFA-122, had to change the...

August 21, 2010

Clinton Administration's Chickens Come Home to Roost

On August 16, 2010 the U.S. Department of Defense released a congressionally mandated report entitled "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2010." The release of the report created worldwide headlines ...

July 2, 2010

Obama Let the Immediate Drive Out the Important in the McChrystal Affair

When President Obama replaced General McChrystal with the "brilliant" choice of David Petraeus, he created a critical job vacancy, technically demoting the Commanding General of Central Command (CENTCOM). Now, with the increasing probabilit...

January 30, 2010

The Great Game in the 21st Century

In typical British understatement, Arthur Conolly, an intelligence officer with the Sixth Bengal Light Cavalry in the early part of the nineteenth century, called the fighting along with military and diplomatic maneuvering between England and Russia ...

December 22, 2009

Other Consequences of Climategate

The consequences of "Climategate" are lost opportunity costs that should have been directed at real global pollution problems. The hothouse atmosphere at East Anglia from cooking the books on a huge fraud has significant consequences that w...

July 19, 2009

F-22 to Japan and Israel: A debt of Honor

"For a plane to fly well it must be beautiful" -- Spoken like a true Frenchman the great aircraft designer Marcel Dassault did bequeath to the world of Fighter Pilots a magnificent series of Fighter aircraft. While the Dassault Mirage was b...

July 5, 2009

WaPo shows Nixon how it's done

Katharine Weymouth, publisher of the Washington Post, has written an apology to readers over the paper's behavior in offering to sell access to its reporters and government insiders at a dinner to be held at her residence. Weymouth is the grandd...

June 29, 2009

The Mullahs and the Tiananmen Option

Twenty years ago the entire world watched some very brave Chinese University students create "the Goddess of Democracy." Art students in Beijing from the Central Academy of Fine Arts produced a thirty-foot tall Statue of Liberty with Chines...

May 26, 2009

The First War In Cyberspace

Cyberwar is now a fact of life in 21st Century wars. Actual and potential enemies of America already know the dimensions of Cyberwar and have moved into full combat. With a real world combat engagement in Georgia and Estonia, the Russians have shown ...