Category: Military

sort of a Christmas tradition for me. full disclosure, the flute player second from left is my son.

I am not going down the various rabbit holes around the Rittenhouse case. But one thing came out of the case that should trouble a lot of people. About a week into the trial, Judge Bruce Schroeder threw out a charge that Kyle Rittenhouse was a minor in possession of…

And the Army in particular needs to have an immediate and thorough investigation at Fort Hood TX like…RIGHT NOW! Today’s news includes another sad story about a young soldier who apparently took his life after reporting a sexual assault. The body of Sgt. Elder Fernandes was apparently found hanging from…

With all of the brouhaha around the United States Postal Service and the effects on mail in ballots for the coming election, there are a number of other impacts being overlooked. Of course the side effects are the collateral damage on e-commerce in general and maybe Amazon in particular. But…

Right now, this is a legitimate question. If President Donald Trump is putting together invading forces of up to 75,000 people to send into our cities using members of the border guard, ICE, and the US Coast Guard…who is left to guard our borders? Or did we finish the wall…

Several weeks ago, the New York Times, published an article outlining intelligence reports that Russia was offering bounties to the Afghan Taliban for killing American soldiers. Other media outlets and apparently foreign intelligence agencies corroborated the reports. What was the first response from the White House? Well nobody briefed the…

As the pandemic continues to ravage Americans and the nation’s economy, and the nation mourns another senseless murder and protests in favor of equality for all (again and still depending on how you look at it) and fascism continues to take hold in OUR nation’s capitol…the significance of June 6th…

In the wake of the president’s suggestion that he employ American military forces to quell disturbances following the murder of George Floyd by police, Secretary of Defense Mark Eper downplayed the idea…said that should only be considered as a last result. And retiring Wisconsin Representative Jim Sensenbrenner agrees…one point up….

Additional security personnel has been brought to Washington…some National Guard troops…and some Military Police…and these guys…who are supposedly from the Bureau of Prisons and summoned to Washington by Attorney General William Barr. If I am a protester, how do I know these guys are law enforcement and I should comply…