The NAS Pensacola Terrorist Attack: At play in the Fields of Taqiyya, Maruna, Kitman & Hudna Here’s to Pt. Loma for referencing this in his latest piece, entitled: “We Called it Paradise”; dated December 7th, 2019. Despite the best intentions of some in the “mainstream media” and our own Government to obfuscate the real intentions […]

h8k2_3-022515 “I have often said that an intelligence officer has one task, one job, one mission. This is to tell his commander, his superior, today, what the [enemies] are going to do tomorrow. This is his job. If he doesn’t do this, then he’s failed.” – Captain Joseph J. Rochefort, USN I was having one […]

Editor’s Note: Mules is a shipmate who has contributed accounts of travels and curiosities around this somewhat threadbare globe. His particular insights in aviation, military and commercial, are remarkable. He happens to live in Carmel, CA, and takes in the Pebble Beach Concours d’elegance and auctions each year. With his bride, Mules provides commentary and […]

I just sent one of the essays that our columnist and classically-trained commentator produces each week. This one conveys the sense that a lot of us have these days- “Can we just do something else for a while here in the Swamp?” Be careful what you wish for. The Next Big Thing turned out to […]

Editor’s Note: It was a toss-up this morning between the cookbook and the story of the decline-and-fall of my folks. I could not make up my mind- but I will keep looking for both to inflict upon you. The dramatis personae include Raven, Big Mama, my sister, Anook of the North, and brother Spike. This […]

I don’t want to bring it up- and will lance the boils on the body politic that seem to proliferate before our very eyes. A boil, just by way of reference, is a painful, vile fluid-filled bump that forms under the dermal layer when bacteria infect and inflame one or more of your hair follicles. […]

Editor’s Note: Now that the Mac Showers book is out, I have been turning my attention to my Attache cookbook, a compilation of never-fail recipes that have served military/diplomatic remerging culinary needs when the spouse announces the Poles or the Ukrainians are stopping by for cocktails. Point Loma hits on something important here about an […]

I am feeling my inadequacies this month. I am not only not running for President, but everyone else in town is flacking a book- something so ubiquitous that it is quite amazing. I assume there is another angle to it- there is with everything here in The Swamp, after all. But darn it, I have […]

I handed off the remote to the flatscreen shortly after 0900 to enable more stimulating programming. Not that this isn’t. I mean, this is like far out. The witnesses who are testifying at the big hearing were still showing up, and the seats of the Members were still unoccupied. Since the guys coming up to […]

My pal Bronco’s lovely wife attended a Wounded Warrior fundraiser the other night. Centerpiece of the decoration was a tattered American flag that has seen the best and the worst of times. Here is the descriptive account of what this tattered but proud fabric has seen: The words made me think of the people that […]