Undesirables I Have Known, Stolen Valor, 1972
I arrived at my new duty assignment in Japan in February, 1972. They had just concluded a rare general court martial for that command, Attempted Murder. It had ended with an acquittal and the entire JAG staff...
Savo Sound, 1942, and Our Place on the Current Learning Curve
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...
Bachelor’s Corner on Memorial Day Sunday
First posted in 2007, my annual tribute and reminder.
On Sundays, for over three years after my separation, I walked about a quarter of mile down the street to a Christian Church, in part because...
Recalling the lost “Modern” Girls of Politics in New York
In 2011 I posted a really delightful piece...since I didn't really write it, largely a cut-and-paste job...called "Meet the Girls of New York; the Original Grand Dames of New York were Republicans" and mostly...
We’re all ‘domestic terrorists’ now by David Kupelian
(From a friend, David Kupelian is a respected and award-winning journalist, who also writes for World Net Daily, which the MSM and Wikipedia consider "far-right" and "fringe", which means to most Americans who read...