Politics and the mainstream media today bear little resemblance to their counterparts during WWII. With almost the single exception of FoxNews, our television broadcasting resembles an unhealthy and dangerous Democratic Party propaganda machine intent on subverting the Commander-in-Chief’s efforts to…
Author: Brad Ford
Host of Golden Globe Awards Delivers Scathing Rebuke to Shallow Hollywood Elites
Republican Ronald Reagan would have been proud of the moral drubbing that Hollywood celebrities received at yesterday’s Golden Globes Awards. Movie stars represent just one more industry, like colleges and television, that has been taken over by a dangerously radicalized…
1100 Strong South Dakota 114th Fighter Wing Lobos Now Combat Ready for War
On the January 3, 1977, origin of the LOBO or wolf call sign for the 175th Tactical Fighter Group, South Dakota Air National Guard. F-16 Fighting Falcon above. by Duke Doering Information on the call sign as recalled by retired…
To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Rapid City Night before Last
This Email Forward has been around for over a decade and has been transmitted all over the world, from Glasgow, Scotland, to Las Vegas, Nevada–but is always presented as absolutely fresh and current. It showed up recently in Rapid City,…
South Dakotan Spent New Year’s Day 1941 Building Siam-Burma Railway for Japanese Empire
by Duke Doering On New Year’s Day 1941, 2nd Lt. Roy Stensland, Prisoner of War, spent three years in captivity with the Japanese in World War II. Stensland, from Sioux Falls, was the only member of the SDNG 147th Field…
71 Year Old Man Waiting at 2 AM to Welcome Home Three American Hostages
Fake news grinds down and dulls the psyches of teeming millions of television addicts. Over and over again, like a bad commercial, the beat goes on, sometimes for years. Lives lived through the media are wasted lives, being the least…
Christmas Lights: A Story of World War II
Peter Dahlberg was witness to savage fighting at the Ludendorff Railway Bridge spanning the Rhine River at Remagen. His US Army 78th Infantry Division then poured into the German heartland. During the war, Dahlberg especially remembers the intense cold, for…
Teachers and Professors Should Themselves Be Regularly Tested
Tests have always showed students how much they have learned. Shouldn’t a minimal performance on the SAT and ACT be a requirement for high school graduation? Likewise for the GRE and other exams at the end of college education to…
Good GOP Vs. Bad GOP—Rural States Should Be Wary
GOP US Senator Ben “Sasse should return donations from hedge fund manager Paul Singer,” says FoxNews reporter Tucker Carlson. Why? Because predatory vulture capitalist Singer is responsible for “The death of Sidney, Nebraska: How a hedge fund destroyed ‘a good…
South Dakota Military Activated a Year before Pearl Harbor Attack
by Duke Doering The South Dakota National Guard was already deeply involved in the United States Army war preparations when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The South Dakota National Guard, all 2,263 of them, had already been…