June 30, 2024

Whom do you trust for 2024?

It’s all about trust now. An earthquake-size seismic shift occurred this past week on the political landscape with the first presidential debate of 2024.  And that tremor exposed something far greater than Joe Biden’s severe ...

March 17, 2024

‘Duty, Honor, Country’ versus ‘Army Values’

West Point’s superintendent created a firestorm among the American public with his announcement that the words “DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY” have been deleted from the military academy’s mission statement.  The outrage goes...

October 10, 2023

Why Have Military Academies?

Established in 1802 under President Thomas Jefferson, West Point is our nation’s oldest armed services academy and the first engineering school in the United States.  Why engineering?  Because it is a battlefield-relevant di...

September 9, 2023

Discrimination, Excommunication, and Indoctrination

DEI, the acronym for so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion that has infiltrated and infected American society, is like so many things in Biden’s America, the exact opposite of what it claims to be. Diversity as practiced in contemporary ...

August 31, 2023

Our racist military

Just back from Normandy, where 9,387 Americans who lost their lives in the D-Day invasion and its aftermath are interred.  I made the pilgrimage with my old West Point roommate from the Class of 1971. To call it a sobering place is a gro...

February 6, 2023

Leftists Want a New Civil War

America's Civil War, which raged from 1861 to 1865, was by far the bloodiest conflict in our history.  Original estimates put the death toll at about 620,000, including some 360,000 Union and 260,000 Confederate dead.  More recent estim...

July 9, 2022

Critical Race Theory, transgenderism and 'diversity, equity and inclusion' are destroying our military

Military recruitment in the United States is way down at the same time as the Biden administration is driving out so-called "White supremacists" (anybody who voted for Trump or believes in the Constitution), those opposed to taking the COVI...

March 27, 2013

Marriage, the Federalism Solution

The debate over gay marriage isn't really about same-sex couples forming a union as much as it is about the definition of marriage being between one man and one woman and the larger issue of whether the will of the people in individual states may be ...

February 14, 2013

Lost in Obama's America

I've always tried to do the right thing.  I have never spent a second in jail.  Was a good student and didn't skip school.  I worked to earn spending money from the time I was in 6th grade, mowing lawns, shoveling snow and babysittin...