Category Archives: War

Pinko Peacenik Pension

April 17, 2018 – 7:24 am

At holiday dinners on the South Shore my older brother liked to tell a story about my protesting against the Viet-Nam War. His wife is a big GOP supporter. America can do no wrong for the both of them. Several Thanksgivings ago he finished cutting the turkey with his electric knife and said, “One afternoon […]

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The First Shot In Anger

March 26, 2018 – 2:39 am

150 years ago At 4:30am on Friday, April 12, 1861 Brigadier General Beauregard ordered the secessionist troops manning the artillery batteries of Charleston, South Carolina to open fire on Fort Sumter housing 127 federal troops of which 13 were musicians. Two hours lapse before the Yankee commander allowed Captain Abner Doubleday, the inventor of baseball, […]

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Thanks For The F-35

November 25, 2017 – 1:46 pm

On Thanksgiving Donald Trump touted the capability of the F-35 jet fighter to a holiday gathering of the Coast Guard. “Amazing job, and amazing job. So amazing that we’re ordering hundreds of millions of dollars of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35. Do you like the F-35? I said how does it […]

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The Cost Of The F-35

November 7, 2017 – 10:35 am
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The Failure Of Flight

November 6, 2017 – 10:35 pm

The Wright Brothers achieved flight in 1908 and ever since the military has sought to bring death from above. The Nuiport 23, Sopwith Camel, and Fokker triplane ruled the air over the trenches of the Western Front. In World II the Messerschmitt Bf and dominated the early going, but the Supermarine Spitfire XVI and the […]

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