[August 12, 2023] Wow, my phone has been ringing off the hook. The wild and crazy things going on over the past day or so make it hard to dig into the details, so I am putting out one of my ‘clearing the spindle’ articles. Initially, I would write about lessons from the Hawaii wildfires that killed at… Read More »
[August 11, 2023] Convicted child predator Jack Reynolds, who spent more than 12 years in prison for molesting children in the 1980s, agreed to share his techniques as a predator (link to article and video here). They asked him what sort of characteristics he looked for in a child before targeting them. He said more important than the… Read More »
[August 9, 2023] The practice of infanticide reared its ugly head in my hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Liberty where the Declaration of Independence was signed and declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are… Read More »
[August 8, 2023] As a young boy, I remember for the first time seeing black and white television images of a United States soldier driving a front-end loader across the cold, hard ground and stopping at a pile of what looked like mannequins. He gently positioned the machine into the pile, lifted what appeared to be nothing more… Read More »
[August 6, 2023] I’ll make a few comments about David Garrow’s recent book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017), as pointed out by Scott Johnson in PowerLineBlog (link here). Garrow’s biography is the best-researched, most comprehensive study of past President Barack Obama and covers more than a thousand pages of text. What I find most interesting… Read More »
[August 2, 2023] I grew up in Louisiana, just across the river from Mississippi and while both competed for the lowest position in America for education, social services, income, and a variety of measures of quality of life. Today, Mississippi is back in the news for hiring Britain’s leading advocate for Brexit, Mr. Douglas Carswell, now the Mississippi… Read More »
[August 1, 2023] This will sound weird and maybe unbelievable to those who have never been in the military, but I love concertina wire. Concertina wire comes in a circular coil like a slinky toy and is made up of small barbs that will snag anything soft. Our armed forces use it to keep people and small vehicles… Read More »
[July 31, 2023] Recent revelations from the U.S. House of Representatives have turned up Facebook documents that show the Biden Administration has been pushing social media companies into censoring content that the U.S. government does not like. Under threat of contempt by Congress, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) produced the files requested by Rep. Jim Jordan. These files show… Read More »
[July 25, 2023] I was in Seoul, Wonju, Daegu, and Busan, South Korea (home of 8th U.S. Army and United States Forces Korea) two winters ago. There, I had the pleasure of seeing troops perform as they went about their business of intense fieldwork. Their mission was to show the enemies of the United States and our Republic… Read More »
[July 23, 2023] Over many years, I slowly discovered, to my amazement, that the U.S. military has recruited and trained many stupid people. Several progressive liberals I know would say, “Of course, the military attracts stupid people.” But their simplistic thinking is way off base. Here is my take on the Theory of Stupidity that could explain… Read More »