Book Review

Elite, Exhausted, and Exposed: Inside the Fort Bragg “Cartel”

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Seth Harp’s The Fort Bragg Cartel is built around a real, unsettling case that anchors the entire narrative: the December 2020 deaths of two soldiers at Fort Bragg—Master Sgt. William “Billy” Lavigne, a Delta Force operator, and Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Dumas, a logistics (quartermaster) officer tied to Special Forces units. Both were found shot in a remote training area. The pairing alone raises eyebrows inside the military: one man from the most elite operational tier, the other from the supply and accountability side of the house. Those lanes don’t normally intersect socially, much less end together in a homicide scene.

Unoffendable and the Warrior: Reconciling Patton with the Sermon on the Mount

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When my church announced that our next Bible study would be based on “Unoffendable” by Brant Hansen, I’ll admit it — I was irritated (slightly offended). The title alone sounded like something designed to sand the edges off men. “Unoffendable” feels like the spiritual equivalent of bubble wrap. And if you’ve spent decades in uniform, leading soldiers, planning operations, and living inside a culture where decisiveness matters and hesitation kills, your instinct is to bristle.

Covering Their Own Asses

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It has been a few days since journolists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson published their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, blaming everybody in Mr Biden’s administration for the elderly President’s decision to run for re-election despite his failing mental status. Former Representative Beta Beto O’Rourke …

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