Is John McCain Courting the Religious Right?
Your Business Blogger was strolling through Washington, DC and decided to step into an old building to escape the July heat. The Dirksen beckoned. If it’s named after a Republican, then it’s got to...
Category: War
When Men Outnumber Women
An Alert Reader, Martha, a former Air Force enlisted, who has been following the thread on women in combat with concern, writes to explain the “Abracadabra” issue: I have heard horrid stories from deployed...
Jim Haynes' Hearing: Not a Pretty Sight
I was dropping the Little Woman off at Nordstroms and decided to spend a few hours in Your Nation’s Capital. Watching a lawyer get beat up. By some other lawyers. You’d think someone would...
My Wife Flew off with Bono and Branson; Bombed in London 7.7.05
On the plane with Richard Branson Following is an edited cross post from Charmaine’s Reasoned Audacity, July 1 – 7, 2005>>>>> 7 July 2005: Charmaine calls early morning from Edinburgh. “I’m having trouble...
Larry Summers Speaks Up for ROTC; Gets Fired
Harvard ROTC CommissioningThese two events are not connected. Directly. Causation? Maybe. Correlation. Certainly. Your Business Blogger was recently reminded that it is possible to get an army commission at Harvard. Lefty gentleman Jody Wheeler...
Navy Combat Action Ribbon; Girls Get Them Too
The Navy’s Combat Action RibbonGirls used to wear ribbons in their hair. Now girls wear them on their chests. Left breast, to be exact. Bill Gertz is reporting today in The Washington Times that...
I Was A Soldier
Only one American male in nine has worn a military uniform. This includes the WWll vets passing on. Charmaine and I were talking about war and rumors of war and she remarked that it...
Women in Combat, Why Not?
Last year Charmaine wrote an article on the wisdom of violence against women. How liberals in Congress don’t seem to mind women getting assaulted — by sending our girls off to war to get...
Seven M's for Military Recruiting
John Kennedy, in 1962 said, “We choose to go to the moon … and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” He was exhorting the nation for...
Fathers' Day on Eternal Patrol
USS BonefishJune 18th, this Sunday is Fathers’ Day. It is also the day of loss of the USS Bonefish in 1945. This date is acknowledged each year by our household — for the men...
Recent Comments