In the past few days a video has surfaced of some of our Marines in Afghanistan taking a moment to offer their opinion of the several Taliban fighters they’d just killed, expressed rather eloquently in the act of urinating on their corpses. In this current world of hyper-sensitivity to anything that might appear the slightest [...]
How far would you go to capture a known terrorist? To apprehend an escaped killer? To detain a man who raped a child? To catch a woman who, through fraudulent business practice wrecked a major financial institution, causing millions to become near destitute over night? If someone asked you to strap on a firearm and [...]
In an effort to communicate the current general state of our terrorism threats a color-coded system was introduced that characterized the threat level in broad chunks ranging from a near-zero threat at Green to an impending attack at Red. I’m all for communicating to the citizens of this country, but I always found the system [...]
“Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety,” said Benjamin Franklin in an oft-quoted comment. But the matter of access versus security is tightrope men have walked throughout history. Once upon a time going to the airport to catch a flight involved as much security [...]
I’ve not been following the document dump from the latest Wikileaks… uh, leak. However, there are a few items in there I’d like to see some of the most vocal members of the Left address. One of those is the confirmation that the Lancet report – you know, the one that said the US killed [...]
Reported on WTOP: Gov. Bob McDonnell is asking Virginians to observe a moment of silence to mark the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. The governor issued a proclamation calling for the moment of silence at 9:39 a.m. Saturday _ the time American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. I’ll be there.
I recall a morning like this one 9 years ago. It was a beautiful, early-autumn day with a clear blue sky. Like today, it started off bright and quiet. As of this moment on September 11, 2001 it was just another day for me. I got ready for work, kissed my wife and month-old daughter [...]
This is the face of the enemy: A 7-year-old boy was murdered by the Taliban in an apparent act of retribution this week. Afghan officials said that the child was accused of spying for U.S. and NATO forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan. Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor of [...]
I got this from the Facebook page of Ed Levine, a local 2nd Amendment advocate, and my reaction to it was the same as his. A local police department in Nevada decided to “test emergency procedures” by putting an off-duty police officer in the role of a terrorist and having him stage an attack on [...]
Today as most of us enjoy the day off I urge you to take a moment to recall the meaning of this day. We have all enjoyed the benefit of the actions of those fallen soldiers we honor. It is in thanks for those actions that we should pause, remember, and offer up a prayer [...]
