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Eight years ago, I wrote a series of posts regarding the Navy’s imbalance in its flag officer community. The problem then, as it is now, is that the Navy has too many flag officers. It has more flag officers than it has ships. I pointed out then that the issue
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I subscribe to several daily business newsletters via e-mail. One is called Morning Brew. It is a trendy and very visually exciting newsletter that is focused on millennials but is also kind enough to let older gentlemen such as myself subscribe and read its content. In their June 11th edition
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I could not help observing during the visit of the Orange Monster to the mother country, how a certain segment of the American population is so blind to the realities of the world that was created in the wake of World War II. And I am talking specifically of that
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This past weekend at the commencement ceremonies for Morehouse College, billionaire Robert Smith promised to pay off the student loan debt fully of every student graduating in 2019. When you consider that Morehouse had 396 people graduating. Just for argument’s sake lets assume all of them had student loans, that
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It is pretty astounding when you think about it. 243 years of American Democracy have come and gone – and the Republic has withered challenges that it has survived and prospered from. But the thing that most Americans failed to realize was, just how easy it could have been not
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Merry Christmas everyone. Christmas time is my favorite time of year. I love the period from Friday after Thanksgiving through the day after New Years. I especially love the lead up to Christmas in the 10 days or so between the 10th and 21st. Christmas TV shows and Christmas movies.
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I made a point of getting home early today so I could watch the state funeral for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States and probably the last President ever that will be able to be spoken of with the words, “great President”. It was with
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Like a lot of Americans, I had the misfortune to watch the travesty that was the hearings on Brett fucking Kavanaugh last week. I really wasn’t inclined to watch them, rather I was more of a mind to wait till I read the transcripts afterward. But the S.O., surprisingly, wanted
Continue readingOne thing that is truly depressing about our current era is that it is virtually impossible to have a conversation anymore about issues of national importance. To take a position on something is to invite immediate attack and its become just about impossible to hold a semi literate conversation in
Continue readingAfter almost 24 hours of travel back from the Whining States of America, I am back in definitely not sunny Germany. A week in Shopping Mall and then a week out west. The second week was very frustrating from a work standpoint and makes me very, very, uncertain as to
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