As usual, peripatetic travelers Jim and Peggy Mueller are on the road again, this time in the wild raw beauty of the American West. Since this intersects with some of my travels back in the day, and a stalled Hemingway manuscript that I have been working on these last few decades, this account electrified me. […]

Gentle Readers, There are some bittersweet memories of that awful day in Washington when American Airlines Flight 77 was highjacked by terrorists and flown into the Pentagon here in Arlington. One of the five ONI people who died that morning was CDR Dan Shanower. His loss, and that of the other 124 who perished, was […]

(This image doesn’t really have much to do with the following hard-hitting analysis, but it may be one of the few times I am completely sympatico with our former Chief Execuive. He has apparently been told that the Borg are in the cloak-room, and they want him to drop his shields Image courtesy of AP). […]

As you may have seen last week, former Director of Naval intelligence Tom Brooks came to me with a heartbreaking story of a man who gave all for his country, and for whom his country has done exactly nothing. It is baffling to me that the system could treat a hero this way. I asked […]

I’m going to take a Sunday break from presidential politics. Not because there’s nothing happening – very much the opposite – but because it’s moving too fast and too unpredictably for me to follow. I’ll take stock again on Monday. Instead I offer you this from the Telegraph: Dire predictions that the Arctic would be […]