Americans could see the European buildup to both World Wars, though the sudden and deliberate attack on Pearl Harbor was still a surprise, at least in terms of where the target would be. The US government had already backed the…
The first rule of military defense is to understand your enemy as realistically as possible, including mindset and tactics. Setting up a blatantly false straw man only invites failure. The ISIS Sunni army currently sweeping almost unchecked…
Is the epic conflict between the Sunni and Shia in the Middle East the last stand of centuries-old religion in a secular world bent on imperial conquest of the globe? Robert Scheer‘s syndicated op-ed column this week in many local…
In 1948 two Black Hills men were still in Germany, helping to stabilize and nation build. Alan Herbert of Belle Fourche switched over from a battlefield artillery unit during the war to become an announcer for the Armed Forces Network…
American television viewers like their sports entertainment sanitized. Same with travel to Third World countries. The World Soccer Cup in Rio unfolds in a social atmosphere of clean, well-lighted places. The buildings are all new. The players are magazine cover-ready. …
Owning a company means being your own boss, for a lifetime if all goes well. Kings and popes and dictators and supreme court justices fit this mold. Long-terms strategies can be attended to. Political machines can keep one party…
You may have heard on the news that Pope Francis has abandoned his pricey “sardine can”–that is, the expensive bulletproofed car (photo) that seemed to shield him from contact with the faithful who thronged to see him. “I cannot greet…
Secular societies can spend unlimited amounts of taxpayer money to motivate people in order to make them behave. Television can attempt to inculcate morals through “social justice” programming. News shows can highlight exemplary “acts of kindness” and…
A militant secularism in the US and Europe has marginalized the influence of religion, creating what is often called a “post-Christian” West. Media (television in particular) has been given the job of inculcating morals, albeit politically correct ones. For example,…
Just when a few pockets of wealthy people around the country were beginning to think that they now owned the electoral process, Professor Dave Brat has soundly defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the GOP primary in Virginia’s 7th…