(USS Enterprise (CVN-65) steams in underway replenishment formation. Photo Life.) I was in the Navy again for about six hours yesterday, and it felt pretty good. In fact, it felt exceptionally good. In telling the tawdry story of Captain Owen Honors, and examining the latest black eye imposed on the service that was my life’s […]

It is too soon to announce the death of the culture of Naval Aviation. There are still full a dozen US aircraft carriers out there, each one steaming as 97,000 tons of armed diplomacy. The very fact that we are talking about the antics of a fighter pilot entrusted with command of a multi-billion dollar […]

(Unofficial Tailhook ’91 patch on Nomex flight suit.) It is too soon to announce the death of the culture of Naval Aviation. There are still full a dozen US aircraft carriers out there, each one steaming  as 97,000 tons of armed diplomacy. The very fact that we are talking about the antics of a fighter […]

(Captain Owen P. Honors in a clip from of his now-famous videos. Video USN, masking and capture by Virgina Pilot.) You can say it is PC run amok, again, but of course PC is a political agenda, and politics never sleeps. I have been watching the slow-motion embarrassing disintegration of the career of Captain Honor […]

 Gentle Readers, I have launched the new-year with a series of polemics about how screwed up everything is, and some observations about things that need to happen, because if they don’t, we are cooked geese. Naturally, my fulminations have not met with universal agreement. I am proud that my close friends and advisors come from all walks […]

(Glen Beck Chart. Graphic courtesy WikiCrane, the online community of crane operators.)   Gentle Readers,   I have launched the new-year with a series of polemics about how screwed up everything is, and some observations about things that need to happen, because if they don’t, we are cooked geese.   Naturally, my fulminations have not […]

It is tempting to leave the topic and move on, but there is more to all this than I can quite let go. I got a lot of feedback on the piece on the Cloward-Piven recipe for fomenting radical change in America. Not being a devotee of Fox and being highly skeptical of what passes for […]

It is tempting to leave the topic and move on, but there is more to all this than I can quite let go. I got a lot of feedback on the piece on the Cloward-Piven recipe for fomenting radical change in America.   Not being a devotee of Fox and being highly skeptical of what […]

The guard is changing in statehouses across the land as the latest cast of characters takes office. Governor Moonbeam is replacing the Governator in Sacramento; Andrew Cuomo became the 56th governor of New York yesterday. They are two of an increasingly slim number of progressive governors from shrinking states. Both have got huge problems. In […]

The guard is changing in statehouses across the land as the latest cast of characters takes office. Governor Moonbeam is replacing the Governator in Sacramento; Andrew Cuomo became the 56th governor of New York yesterday. They are two of an increasingly slim number of progressive governors from shrinking states.   Both have got huge problems. […]