Lone Survivor
We’ve been at war now continuously since I was born, fifty six years ago, and having served two decades active in the Corps, I still don’t have a clue how our “political leadership” ever allowed us into any of these wars. Today, we have great controversy over overt things, but the real controversy lies in covert things, the questions all the warriors want answered, but which are always refused. A survivor from a Navy Seal...
Business-like or The Government Way
The other day again, I read the suggesting of stopping mail delivery on Saturdays, and I laughed. In business, this could only be because a lack of demand caused the halt, but with government, it’s always for a very different reason: revenue, and cutting where it hurts the least……to the politicians. At the time of our constitutional convention, having government controlled mail delivery was of absolute necessity, for the...
On the other hand…
Years ago, it was kind of weird being the only kid in school who was afraid of communism. I’d seen its worst as a toddler, overseas, and as a “navy brat”, by six, I had a solid understanding of its purpose, its ways, means, most important, its defense mechanism: lie, dissemble, deny, egalitarian its sole purpose. By High School, as we watched America’s military, our Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen come home from...
Argument for the right not to exercise a right, Mr President
Pour yourself a cup of coffee and fix it just the way you like it. I’ll wait. Today we travel down the road of where many have traveled. This road is one that those before us worked very hard and long to make smooth. It is the road of leadership; paved with blood, sweat, and tears, made smooth by the pounding of feet by those who have walked before us. The ability to lead is something a few are born with. Even those with this...
Coming out of a Disaster
With regard to obamacare, there should be little doubt at this point, there was never a designed, seriously considered plan assembled for future health care, noting problems, considered solutions, a design to enhance a working system and improve it, obamacare was designed to end the free market health care, and establish the government in control of what would later come out. While many “penny ante” issues were raised, and false...
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