MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Seventy years ago this week, Japanese Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida led an airborne strike force of 49 “Kate” bombers, 40 torpedo bombers, 51 “Val” dive bombers and 43 “Zeke” fighters on the first wave of an attack on Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. At 9:45 that […]
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Sideshow and Sabotage
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – Our head of state is now in Cannes, France, at the G-20 summit, gallivanting with elites from the planet’s most powerful economies. For the first time since his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama isn’t the center of attention. The stars of this week’s party on the French Riviera are German Chancellor Angela […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesSt. Thomas, USVI – We arrived at a tiny outpost on St. Thomas on Wednesday, October 26. As we stepped ashore, the gentleman beside me said, “28 years ago at this very minute, I was lining up my ‘thirsty’ A-7 to land on the deck of the USS Independence (CV-62) not far from here. It […]
Read more Protests, Justice & Fruit Flies
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – Official Washington – meaning the Obama Administration, fellow travelers in Congress and their allies in the so-called mainstream media – here’s a quick peek at some recent events, the lead stories they generated and the response by the O-Team. Let me know if you think I’m wrong, but it looks to me […]
Read more A Decade at War
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesTen years ago this week, America went to war in Afghanistan. At 1:00 PM on October 7, 2001, President George W. Bush told the world, “On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.” At the conclusion of his […]
Read more Friends and Enemies
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – When the U.S. State Department announced this week that it finally is going to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, it was a nonevent for most of our countrymen. That’s because few Americans know how deadly the organization is. For that we can thank those at Foggy Bottom who […]
Read more Never Forget
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – According to the “experts,” anyone over the age of 10 will remember traumatic events for the rest of their lives. That’s certainly true of the thousands of World War II veterans and family members I have met doing interviews for our FOX News War Stories series. Every one of them can recall […]
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