Author Archives: Douglas R. Satterfield
[March 17, 2025] Michael Ramirez is a great political cartoonist and a favorite of mine for many years. In his newsletter yesterday (behind a paywall), he depicts the U.S. Department of Education symbolized as a school bus crashing into a tree of failing grades. “The US education system gets failing grades.” — Michael Ramirez Most folks with kids… Read More »
[March 16, 2025] I knew I could choose from a long list of topics for my new leadership website more than a decade ago. One early article was on U.S. Army core values. And one value seemed an afterthought: selfless service. My question was whether selfless service was a proper value. I believe it is important, and I… Read More »
[March 15, 2025] By early February of 2007, we were in the throes of intense planning for the pending Surge. My work week was non-stop meetings, briefings, development of new Surge sites, construction paperwork, and the typical daily grind of staff work. Fortunately, I was in excellent physical shape, except I had damaged my right knee while running.… Read More »
[March 14, 2025] Imperial Japan’s military forces during World War II were notorious for evil acts of heinous war crimes. Why this occurred was studied by historian and British filmmaker Henry Stewart. You can find his video here. We must ask why Japan was so evil on World War II? He believes the beginnings of this began sometime… Read More »
[March 13, 2025] If we were to add up all the leadership lessons from long ago and use that wisdom to better ourselves today, the list would be as high as the moon. However, we can condense them down into a small number. In this article, I consolidate hundreds of lessons down into 10 tough leadership lessons. I… Read More »
[March 12, 2025] People tell me all the time, “Relax, it’s just a dog.” They tell me to “take it easy” and not to worry myself because my dog is just an dog without a soul or, without us, of little value. But, she’s my dog, Bella Rosa, named by my Italian wife and with me liking the… Read More »
[March 11, 2025] I’m not sure anyone knows the answer to the question of who’s leading the liberal left. After their shellacking in the last election, the Democrat Party and their radical left wing has seen one weak, and largely ineffective, leader after another bite the dust. Despite their lack of a proper leader, they have managed to… Read More »
[March 10, 2025] We all get the biting humor of the Babylon Bee, one of my personal favorite tickle-bone funny websites. Sarcasm is this primary weapon, and they use it to great effect. For that reason alone, I greatly appreciate the fact that they can make me laugh at even the most mundane of circumstances. In a recent… Read More »
[March 9, 2025] Another Sunday morning, another set of pictures that I like. Mostly non-political, although difficult to resist. I must admit there are a couple however, for my friends who cannot go without a political slant. Picking these out was easy, I just look for what pleases my taste, that day.
[March 8, 2025] I’ve always wondered why the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, was my favorite, and remains so to this day. I remember watching it on our small black-and-white television set back in the late 1950s with my family. It would show once a year on the one channel we could see clearly, if the rabbit… Read More »