The Nightmare of Democracy With the entire world watching, our nation’s democracy is failing miserably to the chagrin of our citizens. All nightmares have an ending but all-to-often, they end in a cold sweat with a feeling of terror...

Oil Reserves Aren't the Answer Releasing 30 million barrels of oil to solve the gasoline crisis is equivalent to using a bucket to catch the runoff from a waterfall...

Support For the Troops...Really? Three and a half months removed from a one-year tour to Southwest Asia and supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, concerns about our country's support for our service members disturb me, greatly.

Uncle Sam's Dirty Little Secret There is an epidemic affecting our nation that just doesn't seem to capture our country's attention. As a matter of fact, cancer, AIDS and even erectile dysfunction get more "ink" in the media, and the mere mention of this epidemic elicits a response similar to nails scratching a blackboard...

Army's Knowledge Management The Army's Chief Information Officer, Lieut. Gen. Peter M. Cuviello, has chosen the Military District of Washington (MDW) to be the first Major Command to implement the Army's Knowledge Management (AKM) program...

Korean War Veterans Two Jumbotrons, 10,000 brown folding chairs, big-band music and seven metal detectors greeted visitors as they ventured onto the mall, Sunday, June 25, 2000 in the shadow of the Washington Monument to honor the veterans who served in "The Forgotten War."

Christ Without the Passion Two hours and six minutes of blood and suffering are the images that leave the theater with me after seeing The Passion of the Christ. Over 26 million people attended the movie on Ash Wednesday. It is the most attended movie that was not released on Christmas or in the summer season in the history of American cinema...

Enduring the Agony "Barking dogs," dehydrated bodies and sweat pay the price in order to feel good...

Hatfields vs the McCoys on Monday Night The NFL has arguably become America 's past time by reducing itself to a Gladiator's debacle...

It Took Courage In 1958, nine U.S. Army Ranger candidates got off of a 3/4-ton truck in front of a church in North Georgia .  Tired from training at the toughest leadership school in the U.S. Army's inventory, they walked up to the church doors anticipating a good Sunday morning service...

They Wore a Black Ranger Beret Black berets aren't the answer and they are not the solution and they certainly don't deserve the attention of the nation's leadership...

What is your Vet's Name? Ten federal holidays get most of us a day off but doesn't Veteran's Day mean more than just an extra day of sleeping in..?

Support for the Troops...Really? Three and a half months removed from a one-year tour to Southwest Asia and supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, concerns about our country's support for our service members disturb me, greatly...

Big Dumb and Rich The National Collegiate Athletic Association is creating superstars not super citizens...

It's Over for Him but Not for All That eery chill through your spine you felt when you climbed out of bed this morning wasn't from the cold bathroom tile...

Private Snuffy has just graduated from Advanced Individual Training (AIT) and is out-processing...

Five Minutes with Bernie Kukar Bernie Kukar was the referee at Super Bowl XXXIV. His first experience with the Super Bowl was as an alternate in Super Bowl XXX and his second effort was as the referee during Super Bowl XXXIII...

The Airline's Mark of the Beast Priceline.com has a great premise but the deliverable is less than satisfactory...

Mom's are Out! The New York Post reported Tuesday that Mother's Day has been cancelled by a very prominent day school in New York City because it doesn't reflect the structure of today's families...

Winning Voters in Newspapers Win the Media; Win the White House...