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‘Captain Dan’ Strikes Again

| December 13, 2018 | 30 Comments
‘Captain Dan’ Strikes Again

Gary Sinise Flew 1,000 Children of Fallen Soldiers to Disney World for Christmas By: Justin Caruso “Each one of these children who are going on these airplanes have lost a parent in military services—either combat related or illness or unfortunately suicide sometimes,” The Gary Sinise Foundation founder said. “We wanna take care of these kids […]

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The Fallacy of Relying on Computer Modeling

| November 28, 2018 | 131 Comments
The Fallacy of Relying on Computer Modeling

By- Russ Vaughn For those of you who are tempted to believe the latest government report predicting dire consequences for the world in the next eighty to one hundred years due to anthropogenic global warming, a regular contributor over at American Thinker, Dr. Brian C. Joondeph, provides this food for thought. The climate assessment is […]

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An “Unclaimed” Veteran’s Funeral

| November 23, 2018 | 12 Comments
An “Unclaimed” Veteran’s Funeral

In a nursing home in Ashland City on 4 November 2018, Leo Stokely died at age 69. Someone in a nursing home dying is not terribly uncommon. Given his age, neither is the fact that Stokely was a USMC veteran who’d done a tour in Vietnam. As a veteran Stokely was set to receive a […]

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Officials ID WWII veteran killed in vintage fighter crash during charity ride

| November 19, 2018 | 17 Comments
Officials ID WWII veteran killed in vintage fighter crash during charity ride

Pecos Bill Loyd Brumfield, Breaking News producer A pilot and passenger, both WWII veterans, were killed when a vintage World War II airplane crashed into the parking lot of an apartment complex Saturday afternoon in Fredericksburg. The crash destroyed the P-51 Mustang plane and several cars, according to Austin television station KTBC. Cowden Ward, the […]

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Gore: ‘We Have a Global Emergency’

| October 14, 2018 | 67 Comments
Gore: ‘We Have a Global Emergency’

OK, the actual title is, “Gore: Jet Stream ‘Getting Loopier and Wavier,’ So ‘We Have a Global Emergency’” Too easy. The only thing loopier and “wavier” which doesn’t mean what he thinks it means, is Gore himself and his ridiculous declarations about the weather. Gore was parroting this week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report […]

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Space crew survives plunge to Earth after Russian rocket fails

| October 11, 2018 | 37 Comments
Space crew survives plunge to Earth after Russian rocket fails

October 11, 2018 By Shamil Zhumatov BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – The two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was forced to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when their rocket failed in mid-air. U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely […]

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On This Day In The Navy, 1918

| September 24, 2018 | 24 Comments
On This Day In The Navy, 1918

LTJG David S. Ingalls, while on a test flight in a Sopwith Camel, sighted an enemy two-seat Rumpler over Nieuport. In company with another Camel he attacked and scored his fifth aerial victory in six weeks to become the U.S. Navy’s first (and only) WWI ace, with six total credited aerial victories. Flying the Sopwith […]

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The Truth Is Out There – Pt. II

| September 13, 2018 | 23 Comments
The Truth Is Out There – Pt. II

On September 9, I wrote an article about the 24th MEU being deployed to engage in a joint exercise with other allies in Norway.  https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/09/06/24th-marine-expeditionary-unit-will-head-to-norway-to-join-40000-troops-strong-nato-exercise/ Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, are slated to participate in one of the largest NATO exercises later this fall hosted by Norway, according to Marine officials. Yesterday, I […]

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