Recent content by longknife

I’ve been reading a lot about the charges against Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher to include the latest hit piece, Eddie Gallagher's Navy SEAL platoon members blast him in leaked videos. So, I decided to do something it appears few journalists want to do, get down to the basic of what a...

I've mostly given up aspertame based artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners: sugar-free, but at what cost? - Harvard Health Blog I have found and use Truvia, a natural based sweetener with 0 calories.

I hope the grunts made a point to the president that it is impossible to create and maintain a democratic form of government anywhere in the Mideast. Our strategy should be to strengthen tribal leaders who share our goals and remove those who don't.

Your twisted TDS is showing.

As a personnel sergeant, I dealt with numberless guys who got drafted and were sent to 'Nam, Most hated to be there but they did their jobs for the most parts. I was also responsible for reviewing medical reasons to be discharged from the service. You cannot even begin to believe the many...

The one thing I notice about every one of the appointments is their adherence to the Constitution as the law of the land. No legislating from the bench.

the medical condition Trump said earned him a medical deferment from Vietnam I have one – maybe two – and can tell you there’s no way in hell I couldn’t served in the Army with one. People with heel spurs and heel pain, plantar fasciitis, typically have pain when they first get out of bed in...

"I want to sit down with some enlisted guys that have been there," Trump told advisers, according to the national-security journalist Peter Bergen's latest book, "Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos." "I don't want any generals in here. I don't want any officers," Trump added. "I just...

What sour grapes. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have allowed all federal judges to officiate weddings in the state. “I cannot in good conscience support legislation that would authorize such actions by federal judges who are appointed by this federal administration,” he...

We spend weeks selecting privates for Ranger school and an average of 2 minutes selecting a battalion commander. And it really makes no difference which service they are selected for. An Army or Marine battalion, an Air Force squadron, or a position held by a Navy Commander, they are the very...

But we’ve got all these wars! Floods, massive wildfires. Millions displaced because of religious intolerance. How can this be? Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history...

Here’s what the WNU editor has to say: Media is losing its audience. There are now so many alternatives to getting the news that the old ways of reading a newspaper or watching the news on TV just no longer hold. Twenty-five years ago I would easily go through six major news papers a day and...

Makes no difference whether it was Russian T-90. US M1 Abrams, or the feared German Leopards, all suffered massive defeats at the hands of rebels with missiles. TOW missiles used by Syrian rebels blew holes through Russia's armored tanks. The interconnected conflicts raging across the Middle...

Rand Paul Exposes Wasteful US Spending We see reports like this so often that they lack impact. Just $10 million? Give us something that really counts. A billion or two. “I am highlighting a whopping $50,463,462,292.35 of waste, including a study of Panamanian frog mating calls, sending...