Pierre, South Dakota – The good news about Moammar Gadhafi’s demise arrived via my cellphone early Thursday morning. A friend from the Reagan administration, remembering the Libyan dictator’s attempt to kill my family, called to let me know and added, “You must be very glad to see this day.” But it doesn’t seem to be […]
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The Forgotten War
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesGeorgetown Co., SC – Collectively, Washington, DC has the attention span of a fruit fly. That’s why all we have heard about lately are the consequences of failing to raise the Federal Debt Limit – action that has prompted no fewer than two dozen dueling news conferences, presidential addresses and Republican “responses” in the past […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesPatriot’s Point, SC – Sixty-seven years ago this week, more than 155,000 U.S., British and Canadian troops assaulted German defenses in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord. The USS Laffey (DD-724), the most decorated World War II destroyer in existence – normally an exhibit at this magnificent museum but now undergoing repairs – was there on […]
Read more Killing Osama
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – It took nine years, seven months and 21 days to pinpoint the man who plotted, paid for and perpetrated the terror attacks of 9-11-01. When a U.S. Navy SEAL team finally found Osama bin Laden in the third-floor bedroom of a comfortable house in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, they killed him. […]
Read more Numbness on the Nile
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – On Thursday morning, the heads of America’s intelligence services went to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on “World Wide Threats to the United States.” We won’t know what was said in the committee’s closed sessions until it’s leaked by one of the participants. But […]
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