Among my daily readings online, I include The American Spectator, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times. I recently came across an interesting piece in the Post regarding the new phone etiquette. I was fascinated to find that merely picking up the…
Most Americans were as horrified as the Israelis when three Israeli hostages brandishing a white flag were killed by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers in Gaza. I was saddened by the incident but not surprised. As a U.N. observer in…
When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany’s crushing victory over Poland and several other powers considered to be second rate by most military observers….
Out of sheer perversity, I follow stories in the Washington Post related to weather. It matters not what the weather brings, the cause is global warming (or climate change depending on the temperature of the disaster). Having a flood? Global…
I am not sure why I have started getting email from California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom addressing me as Gerald. I am not a Democrat, and I am not Gerald. Here are the first few sentences from one of the latest:…
Retired General John Strangedove sat in his spacious office in August. He had three, one for each company whose boards of directors he was on. The phone rang. It was a reporter from the Washington Post. He had forgotten to…
Lately, military-age males have stayed away from the military in droves. General officers and senior civilians in the Pentagon blame a poor public education system and decades of video games for creating a generation of young men not mentally and…
Vladimir Putin was right when he said that the Wagner Group mutiny was akin to the 1917 mutiny of the Russian army — part of the revolution that ended the rule of the czars — but it is not clear…
Conservatives can congratulate themselves for not giving up hope in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd imbroglio and Republican defeat at the polls. The attacks on police funding all over the country became epidemic. Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists…
Whenever there is a horrific mass shooting somewhere in the country, the liberal chattering classes begin the usual mantra. Calls for red flag laws and a ban on assault weapons flood the op-ed pages of the New York Times and…