A great blog entry to read today

If you get a chance head over to http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/08/if-i-die-young.html and read that little piece put up by Deebow.

Rhetorical Mosque-erade

The Cordoba Center makes no more difference to me than a fundamentalist Christian Church near the Murrah Federal Building site. For those who see this as a symbolic victory for Jihadists, I say this. Extremist Islam already got their victory when they spent the money for plane tickets and box cutters, and in return got [...]

Black Swans and what the Military can do to avoid them

The military — the Army specifically — discusses framing a problem correctly in order to solve it. As W. Edwards Deming (the process guru who made Toyota what it is) stated, “If you do not know how to ask the right questions, you discover nothing.” In the Army’s effort to frame a problem correctly and [...]

Wars: Politicians have their favorites

Republicans like wars fought by the military. Backing wars like these butches up even the gay Republicans. Democrats like social wars. This makes them feel better about their natural penchant for stealing money from those of us who produce. The tactics used to fight wars are usually the same: throw a lot of money at [...]

Church and State

Full disclosure…….I am a devout Agnostic. I have not been hit over the head, had an epiphany, been saved or witnessed a miracle that could not be explained. I want there to be an afterlife, but blind faith removed from the above experiences just smacks of hedging ones bets. Rather shallow and transparent to a [...]

COIN in America

Sec of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, says that our southern border is as safe as it’s ever been. (I guess not much.) She also says that we should gauge the success along the border by looking at the “the numbers.” There is less violence on the American side of the border; there are more seizures [...]

Enuf Said…

Obama and WalMart

So last night I suffered through the President’s latest attempt to turn a crisis into an omnibus bill. He excelled at painting BP as the Sheriff of Nottingham and he as Robin Hood in pinstripe. He deftly called on his fiddlers three (Ray Mabus, Dr. Steven Chu, and Michael Bromwich) to bring him his bowl [...]

The Nation is no more; Long live the State

At some point in the not-too-distant past, our Nation splintered. It occured well before Vietnam, government LSD experiments, and even Evlis Presley. In order to explain, we need to understand the difference between a State and a Nation. A State is simply a group of people who have formed together into a political entity. A [...]

Obama loves to hold a man back

President Obama told Wall Street yesterday that “I do think at a certain point, you’ve made enough money.” Flippin’ WHAT?!? Are you kidding me? And what point is that? During the campaign, $250k was a convenient line of demarcation. But as we’ve all seen from Obamacare, that line of crossed, and numerous, onerous taxes have [...]