Remembering John Glenn: America’s last national hero

John Glenn passed away on Thursday, December 8, and although the exact cause of death for the 95-year-old senator and veteran has yet to be announced, it was likely tied to a stroke he suffered two years ago after having heart valve replacement surgery. He was born on July 18th, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio and […]

John Glenn dies at 95; hero was first American to orbit the Earth

John Glenn, who became an American hero as the first U.S. citizen to orbit the Earth and then relived that glory 36 years later as the oldest man to go into space, has died. He was 95. Glenn, who also served for 24 years as a U.S. senator from Ohio, died after being hospitalized in […]

Obama celebrates counter-terrorism achievments, pushes back against Trump proposals

Washington, D.C. – In what was billed as the final major national security address of his administration, President Barack Obama took a victory lap for his counterterrorism achievements in remarks made to Special Operations and Central Command officials at MacDill Air Force Base. The Dec. 6 speech also doubled a thinly veiled rebuttal to the […]

John Kelly, retired Marine General, is Trump’s choice to lead Homeland Security

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has settled on Gen. John F. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general whose son was killed in combat in Afghanistan, as his choice for secretary of homeland security, placing defense of American territory from terrorism in the hands of a seasoned commander with personal exposure to the costs of […]

Trump team says Michael Flynn’s son ‘no longer involved’ in transition after firestorm over fake-news controversy

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team said in a Tuesday conference call with reporters that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s son is “no longer involved” in the Trump transition effort. Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller said Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., was helping his father with administrative and scheduling duties. The elder Flynn is Trump’s incoming national […]

TF 160th: JSOC’s & the best pilots in the world

Who’s flying the best SOF units into harm’s way? JSOCs TF 160th, that’s who. Helicopter pilots in general are often the black sheep of the military aviation community.  I saw this first hand as an H-60 Search & Rescue Swimmer Crew Chief (AW) before I went into the SEALs.  A lot of jet jocks would […]

New York to clamp down on hate crimes after Muslim officer attacked

New York City officials on Monday vowed to swiftly find and prosecute any and all hate-crime suspects after a man threatened to kill an off-duty policewoman wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf. “If anybody’s thinking in New York City about engaging in this type of behavior, just rest assured that you will be identified, you […]

Jurors unable to agree in trial of South Carolina officer who shot Walter Scott

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The trial of Michael T. Slager, the North Charleston police officer whose videotaped killing of an unarmed black man staggered the nation as it was embroiled in debate about police misconduct and racial biases in law enforcement, ended in a mistrial on Monday. Judge Clifton B. Newman’s decision to halt the proceedings […]

How the mainstream media hoodwinked America in 2016

It has been said that a lie travels around the world before the truth can get its pants on.  Sadly, that adage has never been more apparent than during this election cycle.  Mercifully over, it produced two deeply flawed Presidential candidates whose respective relationships with the truth were casual at best.  In a normal world, […]