Washington, DC – During sworn Congressional testimony on May 15, Eric Shinseki, the O-Team Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs, told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee he was “mad as hell” when he learned that veterans were dying from inadequate care in a Phoenix, AZ Veterans Administration hospital. Three days later, White House Chief of Staff Denis […]
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Message from a friend and fellow Marine about his VA Care
Categories: Common Sense, HighlightsReaders: The message below is from a U.S. Marine, Vietnam War close friend of mine. Though he is missing both legs and is 100 percent disabled from a land-mine in Vietnam, he never complains, he never whines and this is how the VA treated him. Ollie, people that know me well will tell you I’ve […]
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Theater of War
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And Articles, HighlightsWashington, DC – My old American Heritage Dictionary defines the word “theater,” inter alia, as “a large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated.” Throughout World War II, official dispatches and press reports described military action and events in the European, Pacific and China-Burma-India “theatres of war.” We now have a new definition, courtesy of […]
Read more What Goes Around
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And Articles, HighlightsWashington, DC – Nine years ago this week, our FOX News team accompanied U.S. Marines as they swept into Baghdad and then north up the Tigris River to seize Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. It took less than three weeks to drive the tyrant from power in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and it appeared then that the […]
Read more Freedom from Religion
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – “We don’t need you, so shut up!” That’s the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America’s Roman Catholics. And it’s a message now being sent to U.S. military chaplains – to the detriment of our armed forces. During World War II, the War Department and the Department of […]
Read more SOTU Surrender
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – It’s an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Obama delivered on the evening of January 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol came in at just over one hour and six minutes. It was full of […]
Read more Missing the Mark – Again
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – Our so-called mainstream media have launched a new anti-military feeding frenzy. The furor is over a crude 39-second video showing four Marines apparently urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban combatants. In hysteric rhetoric akin to “news reports” on the 2004 Abu Ghraib photos, hoards of print and broadcast “correspondents” rushed […]
Read more Strategic Capitulation
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – The U.S. military better get ready to do a whole lot more with a whole lot less. That’s the bottom line of the so-called “new strategic guidance” issued this week by Mr. Obama during a brief visit to the Pentagon. Flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and every member of the Joint […]
Read more 2012: A Tumultuous Year To Come
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesGEORGETOWN, S.C. — A year ago, this column questioned whether the 112th Congress — with its new speaker of the House, John Boehner — could “overcome the inane policies of its predecessors” and “mend Washington’s free-spending ways.” We all know how that turned out. This week, as we prepare to ring out 2011 and welcome […]
Read more Iraq – Victory or Defeat?
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – They are coming home. For the first time since March 19, 2003, there are no U.S. combat or combat support troops in Iraq. There is still a contingent of U.S. Marines guarding the biggest American embassy in the world and the largest military attache’s office at any diplomatic mission. But there is […]
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