Author: MYLIFE

This is the first New Year’s Day without my father.  We buried him in early December, barely five weeks after his 100th birthday.  He led a long, full and blessed…

These are perilous times in the Persian Gulf. The region has largely been in free-fall since U.S. forces left Iraq in 2011.  Without the stability–and influence–that result from an American…

Almost 24 hours after North Korea’s latest nuclear test, there is still squabbling and debate over exactly what transpired.  Pyongyang insists it detonated a hydrogen bomb in an underground cavern…

Tehran has released 10 American sailors who were detained yesterday, after one of their patrol boats became disabled in the Persian Gulf and drifted into Iranian waters near Farsi Island.…

…From the “groove yard of forgotten favorites,” to borrow a phrase from El Rushbo:  As Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal unfolded last year, we reminded readers that the former Secretary of…

It remains one of the unanswered questions of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal: how did classified information make its way onto messages stored and transmitted by her “home brew system. Now,…

Back from a winter break, there’s no shortage of blog-worthy material, from North Korea’s latest ICBM test…err, space launch, to Hillary’s ever-escalating e-mail scandal and of course, the “official” start…

So far, 2016 is shaping up as a busy year for North Korea, and it’s only February. Less than a week into the New Year, Pyongyang conducted its fourth underground…

  Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea include the Spratly Islands (inside the outlined area) and the Parcel Islands to the northwest, off the coast of Vietnam (New…

ROK Navy units train near Pohang during the annual Foal Eagle exercise, which began yesterday (AFP image via the Washington Post) U.S. and South Korean forces have launched their annual…