Gerald D. Skoning

No doubt, Champagne corks were popping on the Champs Elysées this week to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the liberation…

August 15 marks the 70th anniversary of the Allies’ amphibious invasion of Marseilles and southern France in 1944. Though it…

Describing his approach to dealings with the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War, President Reagan famously warned,…

Our armed forces have been stretched to the breaking point with the continuing commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Troops have…

The venerable king of board games, Monopoly, needs a total makeover. Since 1935, the iconic parlor game has celebrated the excesses…

We recently had dinner with another couple at a very fine restaurant. My friend’s wife, whom I’ll call Alice, is…

It is graduation season. The time of year for caps and gowns, for cheers and tears, for joyous celebrations, for…

Faced with the dire prospect of a rapidly shrinking fleet of 280 ships, the Navy’s top brass are simply reclassifying…

Labor unions in this country are struggling. Union membership as a percentage of the overall workforce remains flat and the…

The president once again is calling for a massive investment in infrastructure projects. In his State of the Union address,…