Gold Medal, Mystery Saboteur: The Matthew Emmons Story That Still Doesn’t Add Up

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There are Olympic stories about grit, discipline, and the triumph of the human spirit—and then there’s the one about Matthew Emmons, whose rifle got mysteriously vandalized right before the biggest competition of his life. Not misplaced. Not dropped. Not “oops, I leaned it against the rack wrong.” We’re talking deliberate, tool-in-hand, someone-wanted-this-gun-dead sabotage at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. In a sport where competitors track wind shifts measured in whispers and bullet holes measured in decimals, somebody decided to go full blunt-force caveman on precision equipment. And just like that, Olympic-level marksmanship briefly turned into a low-budget whodunit.

Introduction to Business 101: Golf with THE Chuck A Tribute to Enduring American Grit The Golf, Mulligans, and War Edition April 3rd thru Sunday, April 5th, 2026

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Some weekends are about business. Some weekends are about golf. And then there are weekends where you have to take a mulligan on the course itself, not because of a bad swing, but because matters of utmost national importance demand your full focus. Folks, this was one of those weekends.

Night Witches and the Art of Terror: How Improvised Bombers Haunted the Wehrmacht After Dark

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In 1941, the Soviet Union was being dismantled at industrial speed. Entire armies vanished. Cities fell. Aircraft factories were evacuated east while German armor drove forward. There was no time for elegance. The Red Army needed pilots, aircraft, and pressure on the enemy—immediately. So they did something profoundly unromantic and brutally practical: they took civilians who could fly and turned them into combat airmen.

Aisle Six at Lake Martin: Conversations with a Mallard

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I like ducks. I watch the same two mallards visit this area of Lake Martin. Almost every morning.

I don’t know if they’re married. Ducks are seasonally monogamous. So this could just be a one-season stand.

Still, they are my friends. I guess they’re here to find food. Sort of like going to Piggly Wiggly with your spouse, minus the buggy, and the rolling of your spouse’s eyes whenever one of you places six jars of something you don’t need into the basket because it’s BOGO.

The Day the Blue Dot Died

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Somewhere far above the planet, an unnamed adversary (or possibly a very angry solar flare with a sense of humor) popped off an EMP that politely but firmly unplugged every satellite we’d been leaning on since the late 20th century. GPS—born in the 1970s as a military system and later handed to civilians like candy—vanished in a blink. Along with it went the internet, streaming music, weather apps, and that calm, robotic voice that had spent decades telling Americans when to turn left.

Comparing Military Capabilities: Israel versus Selected NATO Countries; What US allies potentially bring to the table for Epic Fury

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President Trump has put US allies in NATO on notice about providing security for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. He has also condemned specific NATO countries for denying use of NATO air bases and other facilities in support of Operation Epic Fury (the Iran rescue that is ongoing).

Nice Toy, Sharp Edges: Iran and the World’s First AI War

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We’ve got a new toy. It’s sleek, fast, doesn’t get tired, doesn’t argue, and it can chew through more data in a minute than a staff section could in a week. We bolted it onto the most capable military on earth and told it to help us find targets. Then we dropped it into a live fight in one of the most complex battlespaces on the planet and acted surprised when the results were… mixed. Welcome to the world’s first real AI war.

The Infamous Zapruder Film And The Issue Of Its Veracity: Why Did The Government Employ Intelligence Resources In A Secret Squirrel Operation To Evaluate The Film? Part 6

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By the summer of 1963 Vice President Johnson-LBJ-was carrying a lot of baggage and was somewhat on the outs with the administration. Open rumors abounded that were not being denied by the JFK administration that alternatives were being considered for LBJ on the JFK ticket, should he be investigated by congress for either the Billy Sol Estes or Bobby Baker investigations, or both.