Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Even if you’re not a member of the Navy League, I thought you’d find interesting this email I received (emphasis mine): Dear Navy Leaguer: The sea services need our help. As you may be aware, The Budget Control Act of 2011 mandated $487 billion in security cuts over the next
Continue readingBUDS trainees during Hell Week Special troops are, by definition, small in number. If everyone could do what they do, they would be special. They are made up of men with unusual mental and physical strength. Again, by definition this is a subset of all men. (No disrespect meant to
Continue readingAstute readers have probably figured out over the years that I’m a huge fan of our American military. I think it’s the last institution in America that trains young people to be competent adults; that gives people, young and old, meaning and purpose in a world that’s often defined by
Continue readingI don’t know where he found it, but The Mellow Jihadi has the most wonderful photograph, from 1950, showing a sailor politely admiring two WAVES aboard his ship. Aside from the photo’s naturally elegant composition, it has the feel, not just of another time, but of another universe altogether. Just
Continue readingLast night, I went to the Annual Pearl Harbor Memorial Dinner hosted by the San Francisco Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States. It was, as I knew it would be, a significantly smaller event than the annual Midway Commemoration dinner. That’s reasonable, because the latter celebrates a
Continue readingLet me start by saying that I am way too grown-up to say that something “rocks.” Mine is a more dignified vocabulary. Nevertheless, saying that the USS Carl Vinson rocks is the right way to start this post, because I want to discuss my visit to the USS Carl Vinson
Continue readingIn honor of Fleet Week (which starts Saturday in San Francisco), I have three Navy/Marine related stories to relate and I want to promote a few of my favorite Navy related blogs. Story 1: My daughter has started a new school and is making new friends. The other day, I
Continue readingDo you remember Johnny Carson’s droll “I did not know that”? I do. And that’s precisely what popped into my head when JKB sent me a link to a post discussing the fact that 161 years ago, the U.S. Navy outlawed flogging. It’s a wonderful little story, especially because it
Continue reading** Newsflash*** Heard on the popular “Don and Roma” show on WLS AM890 Radio during this morning’s Chicagoland commute: In his interview with the radio hosts, Illinois Senator and naval intelligence officer Mark Kirk explained that the U.S. policy toward Somali piracy is apparently to capture them and release them
Continue readingBecause I was away, I missed the whole first impact of the Owen Honors thing, but for glimpsing a horrified PC headline on CNN while waiting for a flight. That millisecond of MSM-manufactured finger-pointing was enough to clue me in to the fact that, if CNN disapproved, I probably wouldn’t
Continue readingFollow the Fleet (1936) is one of my favorite Fred and Ginger movies. Since I belong to the Navy League, and often post about the wonders of the U.S. Navy, I thought that this wonderfully clever Irving Berlin song might be a fun homage to the sailors: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVYxekAaFRU[/youtube]
Continue readingThis past weekend’s sunny Saturday morning was a quintessential suburban spring day. I gathered with hundreds of other families at a local high school for our children’s swim meet. We traveled there in our comfortable cars, air conditioners blowing, driving over clean safe streets. We all met up at the
Continue readingI love kid logic. I was telling my pre-teen daughter about the Navy SEALS (having just finished Lone Survivor), and I mentioned the incredible physical strength and mental stamina the men had. “And the women….” she prompted me. “Nope,” I said. “No women.” She stared at me. “But don’t the
Continue readingProject Valour-IT’s annual fundraiser ends tomorrow, so there’s still time to give. Remember, they give so much for us. Now it’s our turn to give back to them. And — Go Navy!
Continue readingThese stories have nothing to do with each other. I just thought each was interesting, and therefore pass them on to you: Americans are figuring out that global warming is a scam. That “missing link” is too distantt to be missing — and maybe it is connected to the first
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