According to Arizona’s US Senator Jeff Flake, the administration’s request for $3.7 billion to deal with the current immigration crisis isn’t what it appears to be. Most of the money will really go to the Department of Health and Human…
Professors and bureaucrats who hustle for government money already know that getting grants to “help” always means overstating the problem. You have to make the intended objects of charity seem as down-and-out as possible. But such hyperbole actually debases and…
Snowbound northern Europeans have always been drawn to tropical paradises. Empire activity throughout the sunny climes promised diversity of foods and other exotic goods in exchange for updating cultures that would soon be facing the onslaught of the modern world. …
Lt. Col. Jennifer A. Rollins, a B1-B Weapons Systems Officer and instructor for EAFB’s 28th Bomb Wing, will talk about her 2010-2012 experiences as a US Senior Defense Official and Air Attaché to Sierra Leone, Africa, on Saturday, July 12th at…
Jefferson’s sense of humor is evident in his use of overstatement about democracy as “mob rule,” a bit like the caricaturist who exaggerates so that people will see the point. He lived in small-town Colonial America when informed and independent…
American Colonialists were upset when the distant British Parliament, the established government at the time, decided that British troops should be quartered in local housing. The resulting series of Quartering Acts also required that food be provided to the soldiers. …
by Duke Doering On July 2 in 1948 the South Dakota Air National Guard had an organized aerial precision flying team, the “Red Devils”. The team was created by Joe Foss, with Foss, Justin Berger, Bill Downey, and…
Western novelist Zane Grey and frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner both believed that America’s true identity was forged during the westward migration. Hardship gave pioneers backbone. Self-reliance developed the moral character that made the nation into an international powerhouse. …
The start of World War I on June 28, 1914, ushered in a globally defined world forever. Before then, the masses of people tended to live their entire lives in familiar rural settings with family close by. The…
Poster at Officer’s Club at Vandenburg Air Force Base, CA Rather than the ultra-rich Hilary Clinton, who is really out-of-touch with average working Americans, as was Mitt Romney, the next presidential election could do no better than…