Archive for the ‘Military’ Category
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
We think that every American can serve the nation in the Armed Forces and serve well. The "women in combat" tempest has a very simple solution. "Combat" or any other service category shouldn't be limited by gender, race, who you sleep with etc. Your job classification in the military (MOS, ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
This our 801st post on this platform. We'd love anyone who is honing their persuasive and/or informative writing, humorist or other to participate. Our guidelines are simple, easy and reasonable. Come on in the water is fine. Post here and been seen all over the social-network-sphere.
800 isn't a lot in ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2012
How come all the "anti-war" people aren't incensed about the current administrationHere’s a table of military fatalities in Afghanistan:YearUSUKOtherTotal20011200122002493187020034801058200452176020059913113120069839541912007117427323220081555189295200931710896521201049910310971120114184610256620121452433202Total20094186223049From icasualties.org Fatalities have gone up significantly under Obama with no political or military progress made. Source: Thanks to John Ransom
Posted in Middle East, Military, Veterans, World Affairs | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Always interesting to see the collectivists try to portray conservatives as "war mongers" and other such nonsense. Want to know the real deal?
Let's look at our significant conflicts. I've excluded some "small interventions" or whatever they called them. So far the Dems lead 6 to 4 on getting involved in ...
Posted in History, Military | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Here's something I dug up: From a 1962 USMA Phamphlet prepared for Memorial Day.
Thanks to Pete Stevens for posting this and to all our service members past and present for their selfless sacrifices
In Honor of Fallen Patriots
They Gave Their Fortunes and Lives for Our Liberty
"Greater love has no one than ...
Posted in Article Reviews, Culture, History, Military, Reviews, Veterans | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
A political junkie has to love the tempestuous atmosphere of American discourse.
What we note is the strange and inexplicable divergence of apparent "reality" between lovers of freedom and those who are collectivist sheep or their rulers.
We'll start with a couple and update it as the news cycle demonstrates just how ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
The New York Times reports that the Stuxnet worm, destroyer of Iranian centrifuges, may well have come, as many (including this writer) thought, from a nation-state. NYT describes the worm's breeding as an joint American-Israeli venture, one specifically aimed at crippling the type of centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium. ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Army may start issuing iPhones or Droids (their choice) to all soldiers. The rationale is that they will help integrate soldiers into the information age, among other things. American GIs are great at improvising, as they always have been, and they have been finding ways to use hand-held technology ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Before Memorial Day became a 'Monday Holiday' back in the 1970s, it was intended as a day of rememberence for those who had fallen in battle, first in the Civil War (it was first known as 'Decoration day') and then for all of our fallen and missing who served under ...
Posted in Activism, Government, History, International, Military, News, Politics, POW/MIA, Veterans | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Hi! Long time, no see.
I've just published a new essay on Scribd, "Take up America's Torch."
I begin with the famous World War I poem, "In Flanders' Fields," and address the call to defend our freedom and fight the enemy. I then address pacifism and it fatal contradictions, the ...
Posted in Military, World Affairs | 1 Comment »
