Category Archives: General

Here is a conversation on this topic between my brother Jeff, me, and my cousin Andy: Jeff: So who’s your candidate that has a chance of winning the nomination and the presidency? The pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-gun control, adulterous New Yorker? … Continue reading →

If you are in charge of the Nation’s defense, you will always tend to overestimate an enemy threat, because the price of overestimating the threat is so much lower than the price of underestimating it. You have to err on … Continue reading →

Posted by Jeff I have a clear policy: I never blame myself; I always blame the geeks. The most annoying are the ones who come to help you out of some fix that you have gotten yourself into (I mean, … Continue reading →

A majority (70%) of Americans support the top secret Treasury Department program tracking financial transactions in search of terrorist funding, that was revealed, and thus sabotaged, by the New York Times. So, when CNN produced a “discussion” of this issue, … Continue reading →

This highly educational talk by Bernard Lewis, the grand old man of Western knowledge and understanding of Islam, and the author of the term “clash of civilizations”, has the answer to the question, “why do they hate us?”. (hat tip: … Continue reading →

Words are powerful magic. Words that have to do with things that profoundly affect our lives, have even more power. There are images and connotations that pop into our minds unbidden whenever we hear one of these words. Democracy is … Continue reading →

Just finished Volume two of Grant’s Memoirs, which conclude with the end of the U.S. Civil War. Here are some interesting quotes, from a man of restrained rhetoric who did his best, as a military man, to stay out of … Continue reading →

It has been somewhat of a mystery to me why we have heard so little from moderate Islamic voices over the past few years. When the public face that Islam presents to the world is one of psychotic killers beheading … Continue reading →

Posted by Andy It’s not that the Democrats don’t like Judge Alito. They like him a lot. As Senator Schumer so accurately observed, they went into the hearings with completely open minds, no idea how they would end up voting. … Continue reading →

Thanks to Powerline for this quote from Winston Churchill: “You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can … Continue reading →