[August 2, 2025] Big words for a big program to improve the health of our children in President Trump’s MAKE AMERICA FIT AGAIN strategy. That’s the goal of a new Executive Order signed by Trump this past Thursday which establishes a Presidential test and award. The EO establishes excellence, competitiveness, and sportsmanship in schools. Most adults today lived… Read More »
[August 1, 2025] My philosophy has always been to attend the funerals of those I know. And, it doesn’t matter the weather: rain or shine. Be there for the relatives, friends, and clergy. This is a duty we all owe one another. Yesterday, I attended the funerals of another Veteran, and I plan to continue as long as… Read More »
[July 29, 2025] Never underestimate your enemy. The “enemy” symbolically refers to people opposed to you, those with competing ideas, desires, and missions. They could be an opposing army, a terrorist group, a strongman dictator who wants to destroy the world, or the metaphysical Devil. Know your enemy. The enemy can be as tiny as a drunk friend… Read More »
[July 27, 2025] The general rule of leadership is to fully own up to any mistake you make and do so promptly. In particular, this is true for senior leaders. Reasons for admitting your mistakes are many and will be listed here. Exemptions, however, for not accepting a mistake are exceedingly rare. One unfortunate exemption to acknowledging one’s… Read More »
[July 26, 2025] We read those stories of our heroes’ brave deeds, those who put their lives on the line for others in displays of unbelievable courage. We need good citizens like that, and for reasons of necessity, we do indeed love our heroes. But there are also many more stories of ordinary folks who, along with their… Read More »
[July 19, 2025] Taken from my 2021 book Our Longest Year in Iraq, I made a crucial distinction between “insurgents” and “terrorists.” To understand the difference makes us understand them better. In that we failed and regularly made no distinction between a homegrown insurgent and international terrorist. Both were bad but we owed it to our mission to… Read More »
[July 9, 2025] Several days ago, after the tragic loss of life in major flash floods in Central Texas, a number of people were mocking the death of these children and others killed at a Christian academy. One mocking those deaths was a pediatrician named Dr. Christina B. Propst (posting as Chris Tina). There were others, of course,… Read More »
[July 8, 2025] Billboard Chris is armed with the truth and his conviction that the transgender ideology is a horrible evil that must be stopped. Chris Elston is a Canadian known for his outspoken views against gender ideology, which he believes is a serious threat to children. Chris is recognizable primarily by his sandwich billboard that reads “children… Read More »
[July 2, 2025] ‘The Inglorious Government Employee’ is a repeat of the article I published ten years ago. Ernest Kennedy III has put his finger on this idea, based on simple observations that Government Employees are, on average, lazy. Little has changed. Here is what he had to say. I spent a lot of time as a young… Read More »
[July 1, 2025] Robby Starbuck, filmmaker, has become the number one DEI policy killer in North America. He does this by exposing the public to companies’ DEI conduct. That’s it. That’s his method, and it works. You’ve got to love this guy because he is forcing people to see the nasty underbelly of the real effects of DEI-inspired… Read More »