Military
Mike Monsoor, Congressional Medal of Honor
On April 6, 2008 Navy SEAL Mike Monsoor was posthumously awarded The Congressional Medal Of Honor by President George W. Bush. Mike gave his life in Iraq in 2006. He jumped on, and covered with his body, a live hand grenade, saving the lives of a large group of his fellow Navy SEALs. During Mike [...]
American Justice
I read an interesting article in the May 1 New York TImes. Well, it was interesting to me but, apparently not many others. I guess that I see why. It was simply an example of the government doing what it does — and doing it very well, as it does most of the time. That [...]
Middle East Crisis
About a week ago, I touched on the possibility of Israel attacking Iran (“Maybe the Dog will Talk” – March 21, 2012). Let’s deal with the Middle East crisis a bit more: Typically we look at the morning paper and read of some Palestinians firing rockets in to Israel. Sometimes they kill a few people [...]
The Maybe the Dog will Talk Doctrine
Richard Cohen is an Opinion Writer for the Washington Post. He writes a lot about goings-on in the Middle East. He is Jewish. He is biased — and he makes no attempt to deny it. He is what he is. There are plenty of people these days — mostly on the Left who will be [...]
On Time Delivery Systems
Some people who ordered the new iPad have received shipping notices with a tracking number already. I am one of them! Delivery is supposed to start on the 16th. If one checks on the UPS tracking number it will tell you that your iPad has been picked up at the Apple factory in Chengdu, China. [...]
The Marine Video
The big issue on the international scene in the past few days, has been the viral video of the Marines urinating on some dead Taliban. It didn’t seem that it should be. It was just one of those disgusting things that happen in war. Let’s think about this. Those 20-something young men were raised in [...]
Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks
Private Private Bradley Manning was a US Army intelligence analyst stationed near Baghdad from November 2009 through May 2010. He had access to top secret documents generated by the State Department as well as the military. He was charged with transferring approximately 380,000 records about Iraq, and 90,000 records about Afghanistan to WikiLeaks. The case [...]
Pearl Harbor
On this day, December 7, in the year 1941 — 70 years ago, Japanese naval forces attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The resulting war was brutal and finally culminated with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Days after the bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered. Today’s Washington Post had an [...]
Moammar Gadafi
Once upon a time, Winston Churchill made the comment that, “Democracy is the worst form of government — except for all the others”. That must have been a custom made statement for President Obama. In domestic affairs, his administration is not accomplishing anywhere near what the American people had hoped for. It is rather clear [...]
