On 6 Oct Staff Sgt. Robert Miller will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save the lives of his Special Forces teammates and Afghan Army soldiers Miller “displayed immeasurable courage and uncommon valor”...
I do believe that main-stream Islam is a religion of peace. However, religions of peace tend to be very sensitive to the feelings of others. Since Islamists crashed the airliners on 9-11 in the name of Islam, no one with a tiny grain of sensitivity...
President Obama has now announced that all our combat troops are out of Iraq. It’s not true, but it is what he said—with great flourish. The following is from a letter from a soldier in Iraq. Our troops know when the boss is, well, not telling the...
I’m sure glad that President Obama invited the President of Egypt and the King of Jordan to be a part of the just-starting peace talks. Let’s see, our good friend Egypt receives $2 billion in US Foreign Aid annually and votes against us in the UN...
I remember my first exposure to the M1 rifle; I was a 9th grader in the Glendale High School ROTC in California. I remember learning that the “US Rifle, Caliber 30, M1, is a semi-automatic, air cooled, gas operated, clip fed shoulder weapon.” It had...
We were told today that President Obama called former President Bush from Air Force One. I’m guessing that the purpose was to tell him that in his speech tonight that Bush wasn’t going to get blamed for everything. Of course, Bush...
Yesterday was the first day of school. I teach American Government, a required course, at Grand Rapids Community College. I absolutely love teaching this class–and really like the first day. I had 3 classes yesterday. My challenge is to wake...
As much as I think the Ground Zero Mosque is terrible, unworthy, provocative thing that will hurt America, it’s really up to the people who live there. I sure don’t want the federal government telling anyone who can build what where. And...
There’s a wonderful group called Combat Veterans for Congress that, who would guess, promotes combat veterans who want to run for the US Congress–the candidates are vetted. They must have conservative values–as most do. To date 22...
This from the AP — A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man’s spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralyzing him, the brother of the...