Leadership Is The Difference
Reagan, Obama and Trump all faced crisis. Leadership is the difference.
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Reagan, Obama and Trump all faced crisis. Leadership is the difference.
Before the World Was Soft Civilization did not create the warrior brain. Civilization survived because of it. Long before laws, courts, or polite abstractions about peace, human beings existed in a world where violence was not exceptional—it was routine. Hunger, predators, rival tribes, and scarcity were constant pressures. The human nervous system evolved not to be calm, but to be ready.
I was a general’s aide-de-camp, which meant my actual job was not assisting, but intercepting stupidity before it reached flag rank. My boss lived in a world where things simply worked. Vehicles appeared complete. Schedules ran. Equipment existed. That didn’t happen by magic — it happened because several people quietly absorbed chaos so he never had to.
This column is dedicated to Americans who understand that real leadership doesn’t punch a clock, borders aren’t suggestions, families aren’t optional, and strength isn’t negotiable—even when the calendar flips to a new year and half the country is still recovering from New Year’s resolutions they broke before the ball hit the ground.
Chuck Cordak “Life’s too short for weak pours, weak swings, or leaders who confuse comfort with competence.” (Add weak coffee to that list—and FAFO to the list of things you don’t test.)
The Washington State Supreme Court found a commissioner guilty of violating the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) but, oops, she didn’t know she was breaking it. Based upon their ruling, from now on, all elected officials and bureaucrats are above the law.
Hunters were promised respect. We were promised constitutional protection. Instead, we got a regulatory maze where normal behavior is criminalized, enforcement is arbitrary, and tradition is treated as a threat. The same system that sells hunting licenses now treats hunters like suspects. The same agency that depends on hunter dollars increasingly acts as if it knows better than the people who live on and manage the land year-round.
This column is dedicated to Americans who believe peace is preserved by strength, borders matter, and leadership doesn’t take holidays — even when the calendar says it should.
President Trump admired Generals MacArthur, Patton, and others because of their strong leadership, nationalism, strategic thinking, get-things-done attitude, outspoken nature, and unpredictability. At this time in our history, we need nothing less.
If leadership were a golf swing, this weekend proved President Trump doesn’t slice under pressure — he stripes it straight, even when the wind is howling out of Syria, the media gallery is chirping from the rough, and half the country is still arguing about who stole whose head cover.
Never play life safe. Play it like a tight dogleg on a windy day — with conviction, courage, and a grin big enough to scare your caddie.
Until institutions decide to reward courage instead of punishing imperfection, we’ll keep getting leaders who need 27 meetings to schedule a meeting.
The tweet screen captured to the right is just one of hundreds, if not more than hundreds, aimed by the pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas sympathizers and bots trying to pull on our heartstrings, at the plight of the poor, poor Palestinians, and the children! to generate relief aid and, of course, hatred of the Jooooos. I have …
If you stacked every leadership book published since the 1980s, you could climb it and slap the International Space Station. And every single one says the Exact. Same. Thing.
If you ever needed proof that America still produces grit, greatness, and golf shots so pure they might make Arnold Palmer high-five THE Ohio State great Jack Nicklaus from heaven — this Thanksgiving weekend delivered.
Remember when leaders actually led? When decisions were made by people with chests instead of committees with spreadsheets?
On Wednesday, The Philadelphia Inquirer published a decent article on a wound care clinic in Kensington, the center of the drug trade in the City of Brotherly Love, and how they’ve been struggling with injuries caused by “tranq,” the veterinary tranquilizer xylazine, which was never approved for use in humans, which dealers have been using …
Yesterday, six Democrats^ in the US Senate and US House released an ad urging military members to defy Commander in Chief Trump’s orders, that is, to mutiny. Democrats are trying to create a trigger (Step No. 8) which will cause civil war.
Ah, another weekend in the life of President Donald J. Trump – because why run the free world from a stuffy Oval Office when you can do it from the sunny fairways of Florida?
There are women out there qualified for high office. But being a woman is not a qualification in and of itself.