Can The Republican Party Be Saved From Itself?
I’m not expecting the GOP leadership to be perfect. But I don’t want them trying to pick state nominees and then supporting Democrats.
Leadership
A Title Can Make You the Boss. It Cannot Make You a Leader.
I’ve seen it happen more times than I can count.
Someone works hard, gets results, and finally receives the promotion they’ve been chasing. They get a new office, a new title, and maybe even a shiny new nameplate on the door.
And somewhere along the way, they make a dangerous assumption: Now I’m a leader.
Not necessarily.
The FOBbit: How the Army Turns Warriors Into PowerPoint-Slinging Indoor Cats
The Army has a remarkable ability to take a perfectly functional warrior, promote him a few times, hand him three computer monitors, and turn him into a PowerPoint-slinging indoor cat. Thus begins the evolution of the FOBbit: that mysterious creature who once went outside the wire but now survives on RFIs, synchronization meetings, Green Beans coffee, and Baskin-Robbins. The real horror comes when you finally look down at your ice cream, look at your clean uniform, hit “Send” on another 1600 suspense, and realize the terrible truth: Oh, $h!tt! I’m the FOBbit.
I Don’t Believe in Miracles, Says the Miracle
Modern man says he doesn’t believe in miracles while standing on a wet rock hurtling through space, made of stardust, possessing consciousness nobody can fully explain, pondering a universe nobody can explain why exists. God? Ridiculous. Ancient aliens? Now you have his attention. Maybe we didn’t stop believing—we just changed the vocabulary and became selectively skeptical about which mysteries are socially acceptable. Watch for AFNN next week as we ask the uncomfortable question: “I Don’t Believe in Miracles,” Says the Miracle.
The Greatest Generation Didn’t Have A Port Call Scheduled
The Greatest Generation didn’t have Wi-Fi, DoorDash, FaceTime, scheduled port calls—or an expected return date. They had a war to win. Today’s sailors aren’t the problem; they’re products of a culture that has become extraordinarily good at eliminating discomfort. The question isn’t whether young Americans are “soft.” It’s whether America still teaches resilience before history demands it the hard way.
The Pacific Ocean doesn’t have an HR department, and the enemy doesn’t care about your deployment schedule.
If Colonel Townsend Whelen Had an iPhone
Colonel Townsend Whelen spent a lifetime proving that only accurate rifles are interesting. But imagine handing him an iPhone and asking ChatGPT for a 6.5 Creedmoor load. After staring at it for thirty seconds, he’d probably ask, “What the hell is Wi-Fi?” Then he’d type, “Best accuracy load. 140 Berger. H4350. Go.” After 41 years behind a rifle, I did exactly that—and one of the best first-round load developments of my career popped out. Luck? Maybe. Or maybe AI just read a hundred years of load manuals, match reports, and internet arguments in about half a second. Either way, it didn’t pull the trigger. It just saved a little barrel life. And these days, that’s worth its weight in powder.
Hegseth HONORS fallen Abbey Gate service members
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth upgraded the valor awards for U.S. service members who served at Abbey Gate.
The Principles of Javier Milei’s Revolutionary Success
Libertarians and limited government/free market-oriented conservatives should be thrilled about what is happening in Latin America generally and in Argentina in particular. The latter lit the fuse to the Revolution that is now engulfing the former. The Liberty Movement spearheaded by Javier Milei, by melding sound governance and politics, is defeating socialism and spreading freedom …
Department of War: The Day the Batteries Died
Technology has made us faster, smarter, and more capable than any generation that came before us. But somewhere along the way, we forgot an uncomfortable truth: every technological advantage eventually becomes a dependency. The Romans understood it. Napoleon understood it. The Army wrote it down more than a century ago. Use the calculator. Use the GPS. Use the ballistic computer. But never forget the skills that allow you to function when the batteries die. A truly advanced military isn’t the one that fights brilliantly when everything works. It’s the one that can still fight when nothing does.
Chaos at the Gates August 21, 2026: Five Years After The Collapse Of Afghanistan
Five years ago, the world watched one of the most devastating foreign policy failures in modern American history unfold in real time. The fall of Kabul in August 2021 was not merely the end of America’s longest war. It was a collapse of credibility, an abandonment of allies, and the start of a dangerous new era in global geopolitics.
Practicing Law Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #107: Creating Election Deniers
A generation ago, feminists like myself fought so hard to give women more control & more choices over their own lives. And we accomplished so much! Yet, Liberal women would deny half of Trump’s voters the women, the right to make their own decisions? American women must only vote for Hillary Clinton! Really?
Multiple Levels Of Government Failed To Handle A Rabid Animal
Federal, state, and local authorities failed to keep an animal away from the public. Tampon Tim wanted to insure he stays as a threat.
From Camp Perry to National Readiness: Why Military Shooting Teams Matter
For more than 120 years, America’s military marksmanship teams have done far more than chase medals. Every summer at Camp Perry’s Small Arms Firing School, they pass generations of hard-earned knowledge to ordinary citizens—teaching safe firearms handling, precision marksmanship, and personal responsibility. It’s a quiet mission rooted in federal law since 1903, built on a simple idea: a nation is stronger when its citizens are capable, disciplined, and prepared. The trophies are impressive, but the real legacy is American readiness.
Defining MAGA
On July 17, 1980, Ronald Reagan accepted the Republican nomination for president. In his acceptance speech, he said, “For those who have abandoned hope, we’ll restore hope and we’ll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!”
The Great Bosnia Sleeping Bag Investigation
Lieutenant stories are like fish stories. They improve with age. But the fact that everyone believed it immediately should have been a clue. Because in the Army, reputation is reality.
‘Communion’ by J D Vance
I will admit that it’s truly baffling to me that the northeast, the most politically liberal area of our country, is also our most heavily Catholic region, yet our good friends on the left love to spend their time bashing Catholics. It kind of makes me wonder just how actually Catholic they are. Our 46th …
Ten Days Before the Bulge: A Letter from Colonel Leander L. Doan
December 6, 1944. Somewhere in Germany. Colonel Leander L. Doan sat down and wrote a letter home. He spoke casually of fighting Panzer Lehr and the Adolf Hitler SS Panzer Division, being wounded, surrounded for 36 hours, and watching the men beside him die. Yet there was no bravado, only the quiet matter-of-fact tone of a combat commander doing his duty. What makes the letter extraordinary is that it was written just ten days before the Battle of the Bulge erupted. Doan had survived Normandy, the breakout across France, and the Siegfried Line, but neither he nor his family knew that some of the war’s hardest fighting still lay ahead. Preserved for more than eighty years, this remarkable letter offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a future Major General standing between two of the most consequential campaigns of World War II.
Homeowners Living Behind Enemy Lines In Dying Portland, Tale #97: Keeping Homeless Industrial Complex Funded
When Portland officials finally arrived last December, they punished the homeowner instead of removing those who were illegally camping just on the other side of his hedge, the only thing that protected him and his children from the homeless hordes, loud noises, disgusting behavior.
The Human Benchrest: The Enduring Legacy of MAJ Ernie Vande Zande
Ernie Vande Zande was more than a national champion and record-setter; he was the rare competitor who made everyone around him better. Known as “the Human Benchrest,” the Army major and Camp Perry champion combined world-class precision with a quiet willingness to help any shooter who genuinely wanted to improve. His classic article Sights, Wind and Mirage still teaches competitors how to read conditions decades after it was written. Smallbore lost more than a legend when Ernie passed in 2018—it lost a mentor, a gentleman, and one of the finest ambassadors the sport has ever known.
Just how early on did the Democratic staffers realize that Joe Biden was sinking into dementia?
My site has reported, several times, on the anti-Catholic bias of the Democratic Party, including the actions of the federal government investigating “radical traditionalist Catholics”, and that FBI Director Christopher Wray lied under oath about the extent of the program. President Biden was very famously Catholic, frequently attending Mass, even though his policies on transgenderism …