Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
This past May, when I had the honor and pleasure of attending the Battle of Midway Commemoration, I noted that some of the Midway warriors in attendance were very frail: The President of the Mess asked each veteran to stand (or wave) as his name was called. He then told
Continue readingOkay, I’m going to have to call people out here. A little investigation reveals that Team Marine has exceeded its fund raising goal for Project Valour – IT (providing helpful electronics to wounded warriors), while Team Navy has only achieved half its goal. We can do better!!! If you’d like
Continue readingJust a reminder, now that the election frenzy is over (assuming you’ve voted, the results will be what they will be), that you might want to think about the Soldiers’ Angels Valour-IT fundraiser, which uses donations to purchase helpful technology for wounded warriors. This year, consistent with my Navy League
Continue readingIt’s that time of year again, when Soldiers’ Angels asks people to donate to the Valour-IT fundraiser, which uses donations to purchase helpful technology for wounded warriors. This year, consistent with my Navy League affiliation, I’m urging you to donate in the Navy’s name:
Continue readingI’m simultaneously trying to get an appellate brief ready for file (a good one, that Don Quixote wrote) and help my husband with a speech he has to give to a large group at work. Blogging will have to wait a little. While I was doing all this work, however,
Continue readingLast week, I asked what you all thought about whether a meaningful life offsets the tragedy of an early death, a question that has to be approached from the point of view of both the living and the dead. This weekend, quite coincidentally, I ended up having coffee with a
Continue readingIf you haven’t already, please read Steve Schippert’s guest post on this blog about the animating anti-American forces driving WikiLeaks. If you don’t have time to click on over, here’s the money quote: Wikileaks is a small cabal of people who, in their own site description, “Publishes and comments on
Continue readingA question about Wikileaks was posed by my best and closest friend in this life who nominally follows such things. My dear friend queried, “I need you to explain to me who Wikileaks is, and why they would release sensitve documents that could compromise national security. In layman’s terms please.”
Continue readingThere’s been a lot of young death around me lately (although none of it has involved people near and dear to me). Some deaths have made the news, such as the teen boy killed because he was in the car with a drunk driver, or the teen girl who got
Continue readingI want to send you to two posts at Blackfive, since they go together. The first post has an interview with SSG Sal Giunta, the first living Medal of Honor winner in the post 9/11 era. They are both interesting and moving. When Matt sent the email giving the heads
Continue readingIn my liberal corner of the world, I periodically have people tell me, quite earnestly, that the military preys on the poor and ill-educated. I’ve countered these fact-free statements with the study from the Heritage Foundation study demonstrating the higher than average social-economic status one sees in the military. I
Continue readingThis is how it works if you’re a Democrat: They’ve got your back, fighting against our nation’s mortal enemies (so you don’t have to), and you respond by stabbing them in their collective back, by denying them their constitutional right to have a say in our government.
Continue reading“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” — Lewis Carroll I was struggling to figure out how to write my annual post about the Admiral’s Reception that closes out Fleet Week festivities, until it occurred to me that
Continue readingI’ll write more about this later, but I wanted to say that one of the delightful Chiefs we met last night was inspired to join the Navy because of Hollywood movies made when Hollywood still liked the military. That inspired me to go hunting in the archives and to find
Continue readingI’ve probably mentioned here about a couple of thousand times the fact that I just love Fleet Week. It’s the one weekend of the year when I get to step out of my suburban lawyer/mom rut, and do and see things that are entirely different from my ordinary life. I’m
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