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...
St Crispin’s Day 2020, Donald Trump’s Locker Room Talk
February 6 may not be St Crispin's Day, but it will be "remember-ed" along those lines because of what Donald Trump said on that...
A Few Words About Mitt Romney to Young MAGA-Trumpsters
Mitt is what he is, and his Friday night vote for calling witnesses is "what he is".
I have disliked Mitt Romney for over seven...
Shameless Cravens and a Plea for History
This is only an opinion.
There is not enough hard evidence available for me to say without equivocation that Lindsey Graham is a craven, much...
Cut Bureaucracy Down to Size Now
(Originally published in 2013,, as "Sequestration Pain Management" at the beginning of Obama's second term, this is repeated with no changes.)
Since LBJ’s Great Society we...