When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…
Among the Baby Boomer generation, there must be two (2) major missions we agree to undertake before we pass out of sight. We are all that remains of “the taught”, so practically speaking we have until our generation passes away to…
When I watched LTC Vindman march up to Congress for his off-camera testimony before Adam Schiff’s impeachment committee, and heard that he was a naturalized US citizen originally from Ukraine, I first noticed the CIB (Combat Infantryman’s Badge) he wore. That told me he was no…
(H/T to Pike Hightower, who provided this.) JFK’S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as…