Posted on 12 January 2010
In the mid-1960s, the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted Notre Dame’s Rocky Bleier. Unfortunately, Steeler management failed to protect the prized rookie with the paperwork necessary to take advantage of a myriad of available conscription-law loopholes, and Bleier ended up…
Posted on 02 January 2010
History holds that during World War II the Army executed only one American soldier, Private Eddie Slovik. There was another, a footnote to history.
In 1944, B-24 Liberators taking off from a base in Italy began exploding when they “rotated,”…
Posted on 30 May 2009
Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s psychotic “Dear Leader,” specializes in “guerrilla diplomacy.” He backs it up with a half-dozen or so nuclear weapons squirreled away deep inside mountain storage facilities that cannot be reached by our bunker-buster bombs, and…
Posted on 27 October 2008
Many conservatives wonder why retired Army Gen. Colin Powell endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The quick answer-and the most inadequate one-is that Powell is obliged to endorse the first African-American with a real chance to win the presidency. That…
Posted on 08 October 2008
Economic and political destabilization ranked high on al-Qaeda’s list of strategic objectives in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington, DC. In addition to killing nearly 3,000 innocent people, the attacks immediately inflicted over $80 billion dollars…
Posted on 11 September 2004
President George W. Bush’s recent misstatement that the “War on Terror is unwinnable” corrected by the president the next day on the radio with an explanation that the war will not end with a surrender ceremony reminiscent of the…
Posted on 24 May 2004
Main Course: Holocaust
In the dining room of this mansion, which once belonged to a wealthy Jewish businessman, SS Obengruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, hosted 14 other top Nazi officials charged with devising the final solution to the Jewish problem. In…