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Posturing 26 Aug 2013 | 09:07 am
As of this writing, four U.S. Navy destroyers are on station in the eastern Mediterranean, postioned (ostensibly) for a strike against Syria and its chemical weapons facilities. The move came four d....
Justice for Traitors 25 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
After years of fits and starts, military courts have finally imposed justice on Private Bradley Manning and Major Nidal Hassan. Manning, the former intelligence analyst, was found guilty earlier thi....
Military Epidemics that Aren't 16 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Today's essential reading from Thomas Donnelly, writing at The Wall Street Journal. A few excerpts: "...Begin with suicides by servicemen and women, which have increased in recent years—but by dozen...
Taking Flight 7 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
It was powerful symbol of a sudden shift in the balance-of-power in the Middle East. The "symbol" (in this case) was an Air Force C-17 transport, lifting off from an airfield in Yemen. On board the....
Dispatches from the Tar Pits 7 Aug 2013 | 06:53 am
If you need proof that the dinosaur media establishment is in its death throes, look no further than the recent sales of the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. The New York Times Company unloade.....
Tidal Wave 4 Aug 2013 | 07:53 am
Seventy years ago this week--on August 1, 1943--more than 170 B-24 bombers lifted off from American airbases near Benghazi, Libya. Heading east, they struggled against the desert heat and the weight ...
Undisciplined 1 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
Dave Micelli is a veteran teacher in the Baltimore city school system. Recently, he submitted a letter to the Baltimore Sun, ridiculing the paper's editorial on the need for "better schools" to serve...
Why Rush Will Survive--and Prosper 1 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
The media world is atwitter (once again) over speculation that Cumulus Radio won't renew its contracts with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity when they expire at the end of this year. That move would co...
A Hero Among Heroes 29 Jul 2013 | 06:52 am
Colonel George "Bud" Day, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor as a POW in North Vietnam, died yesterday at his home in Shalimar, Florida at the age of 88. Day, an Air Force fi...
From (Beneath) the Sea 22 Jul 2013 | 06:25 pm
Earlier this month, Israel destroyed a shipment of advanced anti-ship missiles in the Syrian port of Latakia. The missiles, which had just been received from Russia, posed a serious threat to naval un...
