Rudy Giuliani has just released what he calls his ‘Twelve Commitments to the American People’ [link updated]: I will keep America on offense in the Terrorists’ War on Us. I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders, and identify every non-citizen in our nation. I will restore fiscal discipline and cut wasteful Washington spending. I […]
One of the persistent myths with which the barking moonbat left comforts itself is that the military largely comprises low-IQ, knuckle-dragging grunts wearing tattoos that say “Kill them all…” without the “…and let God sort them out” punchline, men and women who lack any understanding of history, culture, or context. I wonder if any of […]
My father and both of my grandfathers served in World War II. Dad survived Pearl Harbor, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, and the invasion of Guam, as well as two tours of duty in Vietnam some 25 years later. My son Jon, my father’s namesake, now serves our country in the USMC and may deploy […]
[UPDATED 05/20/07 – 2056 MDT] First, thanks to Glenn for the Instalanche[tm]! And welcome all, however briefly it may be. Second, this comment from friedaK deserves to be called out: I was 6 years old when the war ended in Germany. Our little town was pretty close to where the Russians stopped and we were […]
Victor Davis Hanson talks about why study of military history matters: 1. All history is not equal. There is something about battle — the ghastly effort to kill young people with state sanction — that accelerates time and reduces other considerations to trivialities…. 2. Oddly, wars are not uniformly bloody and deadly, as we saw […]
[Welcome to those coming over from Winds of Change! — additional comments at the end of this post] I haven’t seen 300 (the movie), though I own and have read Frank Miller’s graphic novel, as well as Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. More importantly, I also own and have read all of Herodotus’s The […]
No, not on Earth – on Mars. A growing number of people are raising a stink about global warming, claiming that mankind is causing the world we all share to heat, by some claims, to a point that will cause a climatic catastrophe. Now a bit of a hint from Mars: Mars, too, appears to […]
I found an on-line game, Geosense, which allows you to test your knowledge of world geography by locating specific cities in specific countries on various maps (world map, Europe map, US map, etc.). Your score per city is based on how close you were and how quickly you answered; you play in rounds of ten […]
[Updated 12/30/06] A thought just hit me: I wonder how many Americans will see the flags at half-mast for the death of Pres. Gerald Ford and think instead that they have been lowered for Saddam Hussein? (As a side note, I’ve cleaned up the formatting of the comments below.) Saddam Hussein, one of the worst […]
Approaching the 4th of July
My wife is off in Utah, helping out on the birth of our (let’s see now…) ninth grandchild, so I filled in for her at church conducting music during the sacrament meeting. Our closing hymn was “The Star-Spangled Banner”, and while I managed to keep conducting through the entire hymn (three verses), I only sang […]
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