On 19 Oct 1965, North Vietnamese troops launch a major assault on US and South Vietnamese Special Forces Camp at Plei Me in the Central Highlands, 215 miles north of Saigon. During a week of savage fighting, defenders of the besieged outpost, manned...
The front page of the Washington Post today shows a bearded, long-haired hippie guy tackling a uniformed policeman from behind as a flower-child lady looks on approvingly. Below the photo is the caption for the story, “Obama looks to harness...
On 8 Oct 1918, during WWI, Corporal Alvin C. York killed over 20 German soldiers and captured an additional 132 at the head of a small patrol in the Argonne Forest near the Meuse River in France. He was later promoted to sergeant and awarded the...
Imam Anwar al Awlaki is dead. He was killed because our government targeted him as an enemy. Let’s see; he held two key roles in the murky arena of international Jihadist terrorism. First, he was one of the emerging leaders of al Qaeda after we...
On 4 Oct 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. The US was in a race with Russia to get a satellite up; obviously, they won. We were originally using the Navy’s Vanguard Rocket...
On 2 Oct 1941, the Germans began their surge to Moscow led by the 1st Army Group and Gen. Fedor von Bock. When Hitler first invaded Russia on 22 Jun 40 the Russian peasants greeted his army with bread and salt—the way liberators were treated—Stalin...
The Federal Govt is using Operation Fast & Furious as a reason to work to reduce or eliminate American citizen’s 2nd Amendment Rights. Considering the increase in Radical Islamic terrorism in the world and in the US, we need the ability to...
A dirty little secret about Obamacare that really hits homeowners. Somehow, in their rush to pass Obamacare without having read it, the federal govt is sticking it to the middle class, again. The National Association of Realtors is all over this and...
SolarCity’s ambitious plan to bring solar energy systems to 160,000 private military residences is hitting a major speed bump because of problems with a federal loan guarantee. SolarCity was to install, own and operate the solar energy systems...
Today, 21 Sept 2011, we, the US Military, say good-bye to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” DADT has served us well for many years. It has been cast off by people who never served and never plan to serve in our military. It’s clear that homosexual Americans...