Since 1992, about 1200 journalists have been killed across the globe, with 27 in Afghanistan alone. On Sunday, National Public Radio’s David Gilkey died while traveling with an Afghan Army convoy that was ambushed in Helmand Province. …
The Monroe Doctrine was launched in 1823 by President James Monroe to warn transoceanic interventionists to stay out of the Americas or face military retaliation. Peace has been the dividend of de facto US management of North, Central, and South…
Classics professor Victor Davis Hanson has written books on ancient European history, but it isn’t always easy for most people to assess relevance to the contemporary setting. Trouble is that fewer readers are around. Even schools and universities now have…
Political machines are about power and money, what most people strive for if they can. Supporting reform candidates for president like Trump and Cruz and Sanders threatens relationships and accustomed privilege. If elected, old team members might not be chosen…
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is an idea as old as warfare, but activist Ted Nugent thinks it’s a much better guide to presidential candidate selection than the traditional method of “informing yourself with the issues” by…
John Gaston of Newcastle, Wyoming, was all alone each day as he flew his P-51 Mustang fighter out of Lesina-Foggia, Italy, as a member of the 325th Fighter Group known as the Checkertail Clan. His mission was to take on…
No one really bothered to check with the American public about changing pictures on greenback currency. Executive decisions come from strong leaders who pursue social ideologies to whatever extreme is necessary. It looks like US paper money…
On April 19, 1775, ordinary Americans stood up to the overwhelming military superiority of the British Empire. The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the start of the Revolutionary War. David was taking on Goliath. “When tyranny consumes America some…
Every family still has some oldsters who lived through the Great Depression. Stories about hard times are passed to later generations. Many hard-won values still linger in today’s profligate world, but are ridiculed as old-fashioned, no longer relevant in a…
The once powerful military alliance known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was signed into effect on April 4, 1949. It made sense back then, as the newly empowered United States led a hodgepodge of war-crippled Western European nations against…