Americans will get the president they elect. This is what electoral politics is all about. If some people think that the Bergdahl affair is a big mistake, then they have only the voters to blame, not the president. Could Mitt…
Nearing the end of WW2, Germany found itself without enough long-range planes, such as the Junkers 290, so it turned to planes captured from the Americans, according to Commando Otto Skorzeny in his 1950 memoir. He wanted to pull stealth…
Minimum wagers tried back in the 60s and early 70s to bring collective bargaining to immigrant laborers picking grapes and lettuce. “Why should people buy cheap lettuce at the grocery store when (sob sob) whole bracero families can’t partake of…
(US veterans salute at Omaha Beach military cemetery) As dawn broke off the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the greatest amphibious invasion of all time was unfolding. US Coastguardsman Gordon Lease of Rapid City, South Dakota, was…
Former psychiatrist at the VA Hospital in Sturgis, South Dakota, Capt. Walter E. Marchand was battalion surgeon for the 4th Infantry Division when it stormed ashore at Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He was awarded the Silver Star…
Horst Fluegge was a young lieutenant in the German army in Normandy when the invasion by Allies from across the sea spelled doom for his country’s vision of Fortress Europa. He knew that the end was just a matter of…
by Duke Doering On June 3, 1998, several South Dakota National Guard members were on the ground at the small town of Spencer, South Dakota. They were working through the devastation of a tornado that struck after dark…
It’s indeed strange that the public are asked to see recent problems at VA hospitals as an anomaly. Truth be told, all government bureaucracies are the same, aren’t they? To what extent are they peopled primarily by self-serving careerists who…
The fall of Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, meant that the German war machine was now on the defensive. Russia and America were too big, with too many military resources. Austrian officer Otto Skorzeny watched US forces climb up the…
Edward Snowden’s first interview with NBC’s Brian Williams last night reminds us that governments are almost always well-meaning and wholesome when they look in the mirror. Yet forces are put into play that are new and untested. Outcomes can’t even…