Home Grown Terror?
In Tuesday’s editions of The New York Sun, reporter Eli Lake explored an angle of the JFK terror plot that other journalists have ignored: the potential connection between one of…
Missile Test
The Associated Press is reporting that North Korea fired a couple of anti-ship missiles from its western coast early today. It represents Pyongyang’s latest temper-tantrum, resulting from (pick at least…
Today's Reading Assignment
Victor Davis Hanson, at RealClear Politics, on “The Lessons From D-Day.” As he reminds us, war is fraught with bad decisions and human error, and the Normandy campaign was no…
Doing Her Part for the Troops
When we last wrote about about former Air Force Staff Sergeant Michelle Manhart, she was awaiting her discharge for the Iowa Air National Guard. In a bit of assignment gymnastics,…
The Good News From Afghanistan
…courtesy of Strategy Page. A few items that caught me eye–stuff you definitely won’t see in the MSM: —So far this year, Taliban and drug gang related violence has left…
On the Receiving End of History
Today’s obituary section of The New York Times notes the passing of Arnold Lappert, an Army Signal Corps veteran of World War II. While Mr. Lappert served honorably in the…
Mr. Putin's Not-So-Serious Offer
Russia’s Vladimir Putin surprised President Bush–and other G-8 participants–on Thursday when he suggested that elements of a planned European missile defense shield could be deployed in Azerbaijan, instead of Eastern…
The Preacher's Wife
A travesty of justice played out on the nation’s TV screens this afternoon. And no, I’m not talking about the Paris Hilton case. Instead, I refer to the Mary Winkler…
The Murphy File
Over the past seven months, we’ve been following the case of Air Force Colonel Michael Murphy, former commander of the Service’s Legal Operations Agency at Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C.…
Eye in the Sky
Israel launched its latest spy satellite early Monday morning, giving the Jewish state additional and “unprecedented” capabilities for monitoring its regional enemies, including Iran. The booster carrying the Ofek-7 satellite…