April 6, 2007

A New Yardstick

At a very young age I had the good fortune to learn a life lesson that appears not to have taken hold among the Democrats' elite, nor much of the legacy media and only scarcely among academics.As a very young child I was fascinated by all things mili...

November 8, 2004

Reading tea leaves

Many trees will die to provide a palate for commentators to analyze the Republican victory on November 2nd.  Almost all of those trees will have died in vain. The single most important thing that occurred in 2004 will escape discussion by the ma...

August 10, 2004

A Marine's Role in the End of History

The back room of a Mexican restaurant in Houston is not exactly the place you would expect your mind to wander to questions of civilization, grand historical forces and electoral behavior.  Rather, you tend to think that "salt or no salt" will b...

June 4, 2004

Orwell was wrong

In writing about Kipling, George Orwell said, "[Kipling] sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them." When my best friend, a 33 year—old attorney decided to en...