Author: MYLIFE

At this point, there is much we don’t know about the motives of Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, who gunned down 16 of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood yesterday, killing…

When Elvis died in 1977, one show business wag called it a “good career move,” noting that a performer who had become irrelevant (or worse) in his latter years would…

Ran across this recent PowerPoint from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, which paints a grim picture of Air Force combat capabilities against more technically-advanced foes.  The study, authored…

While the NBA takes a bow for adroitly handling the Donald Sterling fiasco, they might want to take a step back and look at the next steaming pile they’re about…

When Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was convicted last year of passing reams of classified information to Wikileaks, we predicted that the former private wouldn’t simply disappear into a cell at Leavenworth:  “Just hours after…

President Obama finally offered his first, extended remarks on the VA scandal yesterday.  It was the sort of calculated, deceptive performance we’ve come to expect from the administration; the President expressed…

American troops prepare to go ashore in a Higgins Boat on D-Day, June 6, 1944 They remain iconic images of the “Longest Day:” American GIs, gathered behind the ramp of…

..The estimable Ralph Peters, writing at National Review online, examines how the Obama Administration has made a mockery of military honor with the Bowe Bergdahl case.  A brief excerpt: “If this…

A convoy of ISIS fighters rolls toward the conquest of another Iraqi city.  As government security forces dissolve, the Kurdish Peshmerga may be the only military forces capable of defeating the terrorists.   …

Admittedly, we don’t visit Wal-Mart’s corporate blog very often.  But maybe we should; there’s a recently-posted item that suggests the retailing giant may be taking a new approach with some…