September 30, 2016

Consider this in your voting decision-making process

Something important to consider about Donald J. Trump.  When thinking about and deciding on your vote, try to keep this in mind.  First remember, Donald Trump is and has been a private citizen like most of us.  He is not and has not be...

August 2, 2016

The left’s anti-Trump political media show

During last week’s Democratic National Convention, there was one speaking engagement that was the epitome of mockery and hypocrisy.  As a retired military officer, I was appalled at this charade.  That was the appearance by Mr. Khizr ...

March 23, 2016

Islam-inspired Terrorism and Our Leaders' Lack of Resolve

So we once again have received another lesson in radical Islam-inspired terrorism, this time in Brussels. What have we done ? Nothing. What have we learned? Nothing. Why? Because we continue to refuse to face Islam-inspired terrorism for what it trul...

February 25, 2016

Countering Obama's Argument for Closing Guantanamo

First and foremost, the simple argument that Guantanamo (Gitmo) is the number-one recruitment tool for radical Islam is false.  The intelligence community does not support the idea of Gitmo used as a recruitment tool.  If it were true, why ...

October 24, 2015

Deflecting Blame in Benghazi

The first thing to remember concerning Benghazi is that it’s all about protecting Hillary Rodham Clinton, her persona, her viability, and electability. Second, on a separate, but equal level, it’s about protecting, deflecting, and ke...

January 2, 2015

Business as usual in Cuba

So just less than two weeks after the Obama administration’s touted historic re-establishment of relations with Castro’s Communist Cuba, nothing has changed.  On Tuesday, Cuban authorities arrested dissidents, independent journalists...

November 6, 2014

ISIL/ISIS Jihadists Behead 11 Syrians Rebels

ISIL/ISIS jihadists beheaded a total of eleven Syrian rebels who had surrendered in several eastern towns on the border with Iraq last week despite pledges of an amnesty, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a human ri...

November 4, 2014

U.S.-backed Syrian Rebels Surrender to al-Qaeda

The U.S. and Coalition nation’s effort to destroy the Islamic State in Syria took another hit over the weekend. The moderate rebels in Syria that the U.S. has been arming and training to fight Islamic State, aka ISIS or ISIL jihadists have...

September 12, 2014

Obama's models: Yemen and Somalia

In his Wednesday night address President Obama pointed to Yemen and Somalia as success stories to model efforts in Iraq and Syria after.  But let's look closer at the facts.  â€¨â€¨While Yemen and Somalia have not featured prominen...

August 10, 2014

Obama Tosses Intelligence Community Under the Bus Again

On Saturday from the White House South Lawn, the President blamed "intelligence estimates" for not anticipating the speed with which ISIL would capture large sections of Iraq.  ISIL has been a known quantity for 9 months, since they br...

August 8, 2014

Iraq - ISIL/ISIS and the U.S. Humanitarian Aid Mission

The humanitarian mission that began Thursday night was conducted over Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. It included  air drops by two C-130 and one C-17 cargo aircraft escorted by two F/A-18 Super Hornets, from the USS George H. W. Bush carr...

July 14, 2014

Surreal in the Middle East: Hamas's Human Shields

Hamas terrorists continued firing rockets indiscriminately at Israel for the sixth day, and Israel continued its efforts to counter with its anti-missile Iron Dome shield, along with coordinated systematic surgical air strikes directed against select...