Seven Score and Five Years Ago…
The New Editor: 145 years ago on this date in 1865, slavery was abolished in the US with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.
View Article“We don’t want to fight today…”
This Christmas Eve, my thoughts turn to our troops as they wage war on foreign battlefields. For those, seeing little reprieve in conflict with our current enemy – Islamic extremists – the joy of the...
View ArticleOsama Is Dead
Hurrah! Osama Is Dead Hurrah! Osama Is Dead Let horrid discussions be laid to rest The fiend Osama has met his demise Our intrepid seals have passed the test And brave president wants you to realize...
View ArticleAnd We Thought Holder Was A Lackey
Pride And Prejudice The sister of the pilot whose plane was flown into the Pentagon quizzed Obama on procedure and the prosecution of interrogators who acquired the intel that led to the assassination...
View ArticleRemembering D-Day
Survivors of a sunken troop transport wade ashore on Omaha Beach D-Day isn’t one of those dates most Americans remember easily. It’s not associated with bank holidays, BBQs, parades or other high...
View ArticleHoffa Incites Riots And Murder Before Obama Speaks
This is What Hoffa And Obama Are Suggesting Obama Declares War on American Citizens Civil discourse only applies to Obama’s enemies. In an unprecedented speech, Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa called...
View ArticleOn this day in history: A Higher Call
order cialis” /> A Higher CallDecember 20, 1943by John D. Shaw December 20, 1943, 4 days before Christmas: a young American bomber pilot named Charlie Brown found himself somewhere over Germany,...
View Article10 Yr Anniversary of OIF: The Lie that Bush Lied
A U.S. soldier watches as a statue of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad April 9, 2003.REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic As the 10th anniversary of OIF arrives, Peter Feaver goes through...
View ArticleTo Everything There is a Season… Memorial Day 2013
The origin of Decoration Day – what we today call Memorial Day – has evolved and changed through our American ages. And with that evolution came the various perspectives of celebration and...
View Article“Marg bar Amrika”
Iranian women burn a representation of a US flag and a caricature of Barack Obama in front of the former American embassy in Tehran. Photo: AP “President Carter inherited an impossible situation — and...
View ArticleLadies and gentlemen…50 years later- the Beatles!
50 years ago this evening I sat in my parent’s living room as a youngster and watched on the only TV we had the Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show. It was electrifying. My parents regularly...
View ArticleOn this day in History….
On September 9, 2001, two days before the events of 9/11, Ahmad Shah Massoud- the “Lion of Panjsher” and leader of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (the Northern Alliance)-...
View ArticleRepublicans, Be Not Proud
America Is No Longer Watching The President, We Are Watching Our New Legislature Republicans, tread lightly and be not proud, take your victories with a measure of humility. Congratulating yourselves...
View ArticleOn this Day in History: 40 Years Ago….Vietnam.
HuffPo: On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, marking the end of a decades-long conflict that left millions dead. With North Vietnamese troops...
View Article70th Anniversary of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
I was just 7 years old living at Wright Patterson, AFB when the movie Jaws came out in theaters. 1975. I remember my parents bringing me to see it. Part of me wonders if they made a sound decision in...
View Article70 years ago….and yesterday
The single most destructive bombing of WWII wasn’t Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the firebombing raids of Dresden in February of 1945, with upwards of 135,000 men, women, and children slain. In wars...
View ArticleKanye West’s Finest Moment in American History
In honor of celebrating the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and to further perpetuate and promote the current Black Lives Matter Movement, Maxwell Strachan of HuffPo reflects upon the romanticized...
View ArticleOn this day in history: Jay Vargas
Figured this deserves more attention than just a “Most Wanted” post, even if my own commentary is sparse. He went back for that effing arm…. On this day in 1968, a United States Marine finally allows...
View ArticleNo Apology Tour Needed for 75th Anniversary of the Day that Lives in Infamy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor today. I’m fine with this: The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not apologize during his historic visit to Pearl Harbor in December. A top...
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