Insurgents and Terrorists 

By | July 19, 2025

[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 »

Hero: Billboard Chris

[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 »

Alligator Alcatraz

By | June 28, 2025

[June 28, 2025]  ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is what the Attorney General of Florida calls it. If you can’t laugh about this, then you really need to get a life. Recently, the Trump Administration and Florida announced a joint detention facility to house criminal illegal aliens. “Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said a largely abandoned airfield in the Everglades would… Read More »

What is a Warrior?

By | June 20, 2025

[June 20, 2025]  Last night my computer modem died and the Xfinity store closed early for Junteenth. So, I’m republishing an older article that my readers are sure to like—What is a warrior?  Now as soon as I get my Internet back, I’ll be rested and ready. Inevitably, the discussion turned to the question, “What is a warrior?” … Read More »