I must admit that upon listening to Barack Obama mention his uncle’s presence at the liberation of Auschwitz, I felt no small amount of pride at knowing immediately the exact nature of his gaffe: while the heroic actions of American soldiers in Europe during WWII were numerous (see my father’s post below), they did not [...]

Stephen Ambrose, author of popular histories including Citizen Soldier, D-Day and Band of Brothers, specialized in telling the history of war by personalizing it at the grunt level – kind of an historian’s version of journalist Ernie Pyle. If, in the words of Von Clausewitz, generals must deal with “the fog of war”, then [...]

My wedding photographer, Greg Janney, has recently returned from his second trip to Iraq. He arranged the trip to allow a fallen Marine’s father to visit the site of his son’s death.
An account of the trip can be found here, but more importantly, the story will be featured on Fox News’ Special Report with Brit [...]

Rafique at The Liberal War Journal has tagged me.
OK, so he tagged me almost two months ago. This is what I get for never glancing at that box in WordPress which lists incoming links. Oh, well…
The Rules:
I. Link to the person who tagged you. (See above)
II. Post the Rules Here.
III. Share Seven Random or Weird [...]

THE LITTLE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER
(AND HOW THEY EXPLAIN WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE TAKING SO LONG)
“As long as we count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” — Boss Tweed
“Factions will always emerge in any organization whose members believe the organization’s goals are important.” Howard’s Law
When you get right down to the [...]

The above post, like most of the election commentaries which have appeared on this blog over the past few months, was authored by my father, Tim. This is noted under the title of each post, but doesn’t appear very prominently.
Just a brief note to make sure I’m not inadvertently taking credit for work which is [...]

NPR has recently posted an interesting story about life in Cuba after Fidel Castro. Things appear to be improving, and I can only assume they will do so exponentially when the old man finally assumes room temperature.
But this poses an interesting sociological question: as of 2000, 34% of Miami’s population was Cuban (collectivist paradises have [...]