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Originally Posted 12/8/2012 I received an email link from my friend, Joseph John, a retired Navy Captain, and Chairman of the Combat Veterans for Congress. It is a great entry for the opening salvo on the Strategic Theory page of this site. He links to a interview with Admiral (Ret) James A. Lyons. It demonstrates […]
Originally Posted 11/14/2012 My wife, Kasia, told me the story from her family’s history this morning. I already knew that her grandmother, after surviving the devastating hardships of World War II in Eastern Poland with two small children, being forcibly repatriated to a small village near Glogow, Poland (ethnically cleansed in today’s lexicon), and surviving […]
Originally Posted 11/29/2012 in response to a lawsuit to drop the Combat Arms exclusion preventing women from serving in certain combat arms units. The ban has since been lifted by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. The reasoning posted below remains valid, and is currently playing out in the Marine Corps testing and integration of women […]
Originally Posted 12/06/2012 An article in Monday’s Washington Times, highlighted the Democratic efforts in the Senate to block Senator Tom Coburn’s amendment to require a court order before denying a veteran under Veteran’s Administration care the right to own a gun. Until four years ago, I would not have been so concerned about the […]
Originally Published 12/2/2012 Deriving the presence of God in our World and Lives I have been struck by the growing number of people who are publicly proclaiming that God does not exist. From the well known atheists like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Penn Jillette, to lesser known groups who like to refer to themselves […]
Originally Posted 02/21/2013 For those who have any doubt of North Korea’s inclusion in the Axis of Evil, this BBC documentary should clear it up. The gas chambers and human experiments of the Third Reich are alive and well. These are the kinds of things which can be justified when the State is determined […]
Originally Posted 12/16/2012 Everyone should be appalled at the killings which occurred in Connecticut yesterday. There is nothing more evil than a person who would harm innocent children – whether out of hate for an individual or group, or for an ideology. A prayer for the victims and mourning families is the appropriate first response. The […]
Originally posted 11/12/2012If you are thinking of running for office, this post is for you. I would like to share some of my experiences in a congressional campaign which drew national attention. I will be as informative as possible for those who are weighing a political run, especially those coming from military service.I will add […]
Presidents are usually so far removed from us that most never appreciate how they can impact our daily lives. Here is how Ronald Reagan touched two lives on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain: ours. BILL I grew up as an Air Force brat. In 1962 my father was stationed Newfoundland, Canada […]