Category: Military

WND Report: Missile Launch off California Likely from Chinese Sub

Posted on by Jane Jamison

America was told that the mysterious “missile” launch videotaped by a television news crew just off the southern coast of California November 10, was most likely just the contrail of a jet.:  The Defense Department and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have both opined publicly that as such, it did not pose any […]

 

I Am Humbled.

Posted on by Duane Lester

I had a Redbox movie I needed to return (Robin Hood, if you’re wondering) and I needed to pick up a few things from the grocery store, so I decided to put on my old USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) ballcap and take advantage of the free breakfast for veterans at the local Maryville Hy-Vee Food […]

 

In honor of Veteran’s Day — thoughts about redemption

Posted on by Bookworm

Since I was a child, I’ve enjoyed a very specific type of book or movie, of the kind that I call the “Getting it Right” genre. Getting it Right entertainment involves a protagonist who is making big mistakes, and who figures out how to — yes — get it right. The moral trajectory of failure […]

 

Saddest Letter Ever From One of Our Military Vets!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Major Mike Banzet of the U.S. Air Force retired this year after more than 20 years in service to his country. He didn’t do so happily, either. To explain himself he published a long letter in the Daily Inter Lake that is a spot on attack on America’s misguided support of the Democratic Party. As […]

 

Obama Justice Dept. Denies Military Vote, Blames GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The head of the Obama Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Tom Perez, admitted this week that he has no real intention of trying to assure that members of our military are afforded their right to vote, and will not attempt in a timely fashion to enforce the MOVE Act (Military and Overseas Voter Empower Act) […]

 

Support Project Valour IT!

Posted on by William Teach

Yes, folks, it is that time of the year again, the time to pony up and help out our soldiers through Soldiers Angels and Project Valour IT Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds […]

 

Jimmy Carter: Liar Extraordinaire

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every once in a while one must risk breaching decorum and call a spade a spade. In this case sentient people cannot avoid affirming the stark truth that former President Jimmy Carter is one of the world’s greatest liars. This melodious storyteller’s latest misconstruction of the truth comes from the Deseret News of Salt Lake […]

 

Are We Making It Impossible For Our Own Troops To Beat The Taliban?

Posted on by John Hawkins

It has been clear since the Bush years that there’s a contingent in the military that’s a lot more concerned about promotions and bad press than they are about the lives of the troops or winning wars, but it seems to be getting worse under the Obama administration: To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines […]

 

There Are Practical Problems With Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? You Don’t Say.

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at the New York Times, they’re outrageously OUTRAGED that there might be any sort of real world consequences to ending the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy: Although President Obama and the Pentagon’s top leaders have all said they want the law repealed, the Justice Department on Thursday asked Judge Phillips to stay her injunction […]

 

Feds Build $1 Billion Virginia Office Complex Without Parking Or Roads to Get To It

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The federal government has built a one billion dollar office complex in Virginia to house some 6,400 Pentagon workers that are to be moved soon. It’s a beautiful new office complex that rises like a mountain next to Northern Virginia’s I-395. But there are a few little problems. There is no parking for one thing […]

 

Illinois Professor Says Chanting ‘USA’ is Bellicose Propaganda

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, you ignorant Americans with your venal patriotic chants of “USA, USA” at sporting events. Your bellicosity isn’t patriotism, it’s propaganda and lowly militarism… so says David Green, University Administrator and member of the University of Illinois Institute of Government & Public Affairs. Green’s poisoned pen letter to American patriots was published by the Daily […]

 

Hyperpoliticized Army Will Not Tolerate Those Who Don’t Embrace Radical Homosexual Agenda

Posted on by Dave Blount

You can’t destroy America without destroying the mighty American military. Liberals are on the job, using their usual tactic of incremental corrosion. That is, they are going to rot it into a contemptible farce, just as they’ve been doing to the country as a whole. Here’s a report on their progress: Next week, Senate Majority […]

 

Did Bush Offer to Take 100,000 Palestinians Into the USA?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Israel’s Haaretz news agency recently reported that on Sept. 19 former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that President George W. Bush promised to take in 100,000 Palestinian refugees, giving them automatic American citizenship in exchange for a mid east peace deal. Former prime minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that the Bush administration had assured […]

 

Movie Review: Newt Gingrich’s America At Risk

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In Washington D.C. on Sept. 12 I attended the star studded premiere of the new film America at Risk: The War With No Name, featuring Newt and Callista Gingrich and a dozen well respected experts on the subject of the War on Terror. The event was held at the Newseum, a block or so from […]

 

John Kerry: Obama Preparing to Negotiate With Afghan Terrorists?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If one can believe a word Senator John Kerry (D, Mass) says, the United States is launching efforts to negotiate with Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. “I can report without being specific that there are efforts under way. They are serious and I completely agree with that fundamental premise — and so does General [David] Petraeus […]

 

Muslim Massacre at Fort Hood Downgraded to “Workplace Violence”

Posted on by Dave Blount

Remarkably, it has taken the politically correct bureauweenies atop the Army less than a year to respond to the terrorist massacre at Fort Hood. Here‘s how the top brass will make sure there are no more Islamic terror attacks by Muslim infiltrators within the military: More than nine months after the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre, […]

 

Narrative and the Memory of War

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

“It is a measure of the power of narrative that we publicly grieve more for the deaths of our enemies than those of our allies in a war that is now fading quickly from human memory,” the blogger Tigerhawk writes. On both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II, Hollywood and the rest of the left have certainly been doing their part in recent years.

 

Unions Holding Up Cash for the Troops

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the Washington Times had a story that should enrage every true American. The Democrat Congress is allowing Big Labor’s needs to come before the needs of our troops. The supplemental budget that Congress is considering is supposed to be about funding the troops and their efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Democrats are […]

 

Terror Lawyer Heads Arizona Lawsuit: Talk about Conflict of Interest

Posted on by Heather Bachman

Just hours ago it was announced that Tony West, a member of a group of lawyers who have represented terror suspects and are coined as “The Gitmo 9”, will be leading the Obama Administration in their suit against Arizona.:  Arguing against the state taking a federal law that the national law enforcement were not using […]

 

Navy: Men Have “Duty” To Protect Women From Themselves

Posted on by Cassandra

This is so incandescently idiotic – on so many levels – that I don’t even know what to say about it. Sometimes the stupid is just overpowering: The U.S. Navy wants commanders to “feel very uncomfortable” about sexual assaults, happening at a rate of more than one a day, military officials said. “My goal is […]

 

New Silicon Graffiti Video: ‘The Cold Civil War’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

In 2007, author William Gibson wrote the phrase the “Cold Civil War” for one of his science fiction novels. That led blogger April Gavaza, also known as the “Hyacinth Girl,” as well as Mark Steyn to pick up on the concept a year later. But of course, as General McChrystal’s disastrous interview with Rolling Stone and his subsequent dismissal illustrates, the media isn’t just where wars are fought domestically, as we discuss in the latest edition of our Silicon Graffiti video blog

 

Petition to Remove Statue of Murderer Stalin from D-Day Memorial

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has been a lot of anger over the inclusion of a statue of Joseph Stalin, Russia’s murderous WWII dictator, in our National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.As a result of that anger a petition has been started to remove the Stalin celebration from the National D-Day Memorial. Thousands of Americans feel that including a […]

 

MacArthur vs. McChrystal

Posted on by John Hawkins

When I heard that General Stanley McChrystal, the man running the show in Afghanistan, had mouthed off about Obama to Rolling Stone and could conceivably be fired, my first thought turned to the conflict between MacArthur and Truman that helped destroy Truman’s presidency. If you don’t remember, Truman ended up firing MacArthur after the general […]

 

2-Inch-Tall Army Soldiers Gets School Kid Reprimanded

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A policy of no tolerance for weapons got an 8-year-old boy in trouble at his Rhode Island grade school this week. The boy brought in nearly a dozen M-14 Army rifles to his Tiogue School in Coventry, R.I. grade school and was chastised by the principal for the outrage. How did he get all those […]

 

Anti-War Teachers Disrupt Recognition of Military-Minded Students

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week two Massachusetts High School teachers took it upon themselves to protest against the U.S. Military as students that had announced plans to join our armed forces were receiving recognition from their school. Incensed students and parents called for the teachers to be fired. History teacher Marybeth Verani and English teacher Adeline Koscher raised […]

 

Video: Why Do Fannie And Freddie Execs Make More Than our Generals?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Peter Roskam tries to offer an amendment that makes sure that the executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t make more money than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Naturally the Democrats would rather pay millions to the executives that are still running Freddie and Fannie into the ground than accept […]

 

Ill. Congressman Hare: Puffing Military Record and Intimidating Voters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congressman Phil Hare (IL, 17th District) is the perfect example of the sort of congressman no one should want. He’s arrogant. He’s dismissive. He’s self-important. He’s easy to anger. And worst of all he has disdain for his own voters. The man is simply a creep. In April we had video of this arrogant cuss […]