Its bigger than you think

3,531,905.43 square miles. That is roughly the area that makes up the United States of America. We are certainly not the biggest single nation but we are also not the smallest. Last night, I flew over the section of the country between Atlanta and Pittsburgh on my way home from a business trip. The night […]

January 1943… Freedom Rising

Change… new directions… imperial doctrines… When you have nothing less to lose, giving your life gains new meaning. We are going to be tested soon in ways that a few years ago would have been unimaginable. But consider this… in the 1920′s before the rise of Hitler and the Nazi’s would you have even thought […]

Some red meat from a red state. nebraskaenergyobserver Maybe its time to clarify a few things, not that anybody is paying much attention to rationality at the moment. A neighbor of mine, Nebraskattitude posted this, this morning. She’s pretty much right, fair warning she’s blunt and a bit of her language is off-color, which bothers me […]

You wouldn’t shoot an unarmed man would you?

Over the weekend I found myself watching one of the cable stations that plays old westerns. The movie was an oldie starring Randolph Scott in a very interesting role for him. He was actually a bad guy who was pretending to be a good guy. The movie was probably made later in his career when […]

If They Come for Your Guns, Do You Have a Responsibility to Fight? | The D.C. Clothesline

If They Come for Your Guns, Do You Have a Responsibility to Fight? | The D.C. Clothesline. I strongly recommend this read as a primer for some and a reinforcement for others. In any event, it is no longer about guns… it is about freedom itself.

Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
As we opened the new year (2013) I was thinking about how precarious life has become in this new age. A majority of the voters thought enough of Obama to reelect him last year. It would seem that there is a broad spectrum of support for taxing other people in the…

Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
Its so hard to believe that nearly thirty years have passed since we lived in Scotland. While we were there, we immersed ourselves in the local culture as much as we could given a very hectic work schedule at Holy Loch. But Debbie and I spent as much time as…

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 39,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

Strategic Deterrence – 3500 patrols and counting

When most people look back at the fifties, it was a mixture of many different themes. On the one hand, we had the growth of the so called middle class into suburbia as returning GI’s and their counterparts in the other services came home as victors to a nation ready to grow. Home ownership became […]

Merry Christmas

I wish you the joy of the season. Joy that there are still places in the world where people are free. Joy that men and women are still willing to put their lives on the line this day to make sure you can celebrate in peace with your family. Joy that the Birth of the […]