Meet Christian Bagge. Christian was wounded in Iraq, a double-amputee. You can read his story here . Christian Bagge participates in sports – running, golf, biking. He mows his own lawn and does his own home repairs. He works on the Wounded Soldier Project and is a spokesman for the American Veterans Disabled for Life […]
Amity Shlaes debunks the most common claims of the liberal-Left regarding FDR’s New Deal. Roosevelt did famously well by one measure, the political poll. He flunked by two other meters that we today know are critically important: the unemployment rate and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In his first inaugural address, Roosevelt spoke of a […]
That’s the conclusion that Joshua Muravchik reaches in today’s Wall St. Journal with his piece (subs req) entitled “Winds of War.” Today, this same dynamic is creating a moment of great danger. The radicals are becoming reckless, asserting themselves for little reason beyond the conviction that they can. They are very likely to overreach. It […]
It was a pleasure to welcome Bill Roggio and Bruce McQuain, who gave us an overview of Operation Phantom Thunder, the major offensive unfolding in Iraq. This was a very interesting, extended discussion of the strategy and tactics at work. There was praise for Gen. Petraeus and a few swipes at the MSM, and the […]
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Someone You Should Know is a weekly series that highlights the battlefield heroics of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bruce McQuain from QandO, a Vietnam veteran with 28-year’s experience in the U.S. Army, does a wonderful job with the series because he knows of what he speaks and he is an incredible writer and […]
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We had an lively and fun discussion about the media, new and old, with Town Hall’s Dean Barnett and Paul Gillin, author of The New Influencers: A Marketer’s Guide to the New Social Media. Paul predicts that in a few years, we will be left with five national newspapers, and local papers. Big dailies like […]
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What is left to say about Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats? Our friend Bruce McQuain from QandO, a man who wore the uniform for twenty eight years, spotted something fishy on the Speaker’s web site today. He saw a post about how much the Democrats care for the troops, and how they were increasing veterans benefits. All […]