Archive for the ‘Military’ Category
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Always interesting to see the collectivists try to portray conservatives as "war mongers" and other such nonsense. Want to know the real deal?
Let's look at our significant conflicts. I've excluded some "small interventions" or whatever they called them. So far the Dems lead 6 to 4 on getting involved in ...
Posted in History, Military | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Here's something I dug up: From a 1962 USMA Phamphlet prepared for Memorial Day.
Thanks to Pete Stevens for posting this and to all our service members past and present for their selfless sacrifices
In Honor of Fallen Patriots
They Gave Their Fortunes and Lives for Our Liberty
"Greater love has no one than ...
Posted in Article Reviews, Culture, History, Military, Reviews, Veterans | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
A political junkie has to love the tempestuous atmosphere of American discourse.
What we note is the strange and inexplicable divergence of apparent "reality" between lovers of freedom and those who are collectivist sheep or their rulers.
We'll start with a couple and update it as the news cycle demonstrates just how ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
The New York Times reports that the Stuxnet worm, destroyer of Iranian centrifuges, may well have come, as many (including this writer) thought, from a nation-state. NYT describes the worm's breeding as an joint American-Israeli venture, one specifically aimed at crippling the type of centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium. ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Army may start issuing iPhones or Droids (their choice) to all soldiers. The rationale is that they will help integrate soldiers into the information age, among other things. American GIs are great at improvising, as they always have been, and they have been finding ways to use hand-held technology ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Before Memorial Day became a 'Monday Holiday' back in the 1970s, it was intended as a day of rememberence for those who had fallen in battle, first in the Civil War (it was first known as 'Decoration day') and then for all of our fallen and missing who served under ...
Posted in Activism, Government, History, International, Military, News, Politics, POW/MIA, Veterans | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Hi! Long time, no see.
I've just published a new essay on Scribd, "Take up America's Torch."
I begin with the famous World War I poem, "In Flanders' Fields," and address the call to defend our freedom and fight the enemy. I then address pacifism and it fatal contradictions, the ...
Posted in Military, World Affairs | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Third and last in a series... Part I | Part II
STOCKDALE: Epictetus faced no comparable crisis to that which either Seneca or Marcus Aurelius did. His crippled servitude was a chronic, not an acute, condition which he not only learned to live with, but within the confines of which found ...
Posted in Culture, History, Military, Philosophy | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
As you can see here, the Armed Forces will soon be forced to take the 'swine flu' vaccine,
of both doubtful merit and safety, whether they want it or not. To subject those who have
chosen to wear the uniform to de facto drug testing, which the link above quotes the USAF's
General ...
Posted in Medicine, Military | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Yes, the U.S. has not only confiscated native language Bibles from service members serving in Afghanistan. They have burnt them as well. It appears that to please our tepid Afghan "allies" the command in that beknighted country thought it would foster good relations to burn Christian scripture in front of ...
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