I never once read a comic book as a kid. All I did was play sports, talk to girls and fit in. It was a happy, easy path. I’ve got sons of […]
Thank You Stan Lee
Sean Patrick Hughes
Founder, writer, veteran, special needs parent
To The Life Once Lived
I have no stoic message to tell the world how grateful they should feel. There’s no pining over lost years and an America of better days, more worthy of the service of […]
The Cost of Veteran Value Signaling
The 22-a-day number is not real. The number publicized to show how many vets commit suicide every day is not real. The actual number is something less than that. And a deeper […]
What Did We Learn?
I don’t know what a “blue wave” is, beyond a campaign rallying cry turned into a subjective term by which talking heads felt compelled to evaluate the 2018 mid-terms. An election, by […]
Voters Guide for The Rational
The election is on Tuesday. If you’re like most voters, as I am, you haven’t really had time to dig down into the details of everything on the ballot and perhaps you’re […]
Once More Unto The Breach…
In October of 2008, Alan Greenspan, once the most powerful man in the most powerful sector in the most powerful country in the world, stood before congress with the wreckage of 34 […]
On My Experience With Domestic Terror
I originally wrote this as a Twitter thread a few minutes after the news of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh broke this morning. I thought there was […]
Identity Politics and Immigration
I am pro immigration. I wrote a chapter in my book about immigration being a consistent political boogeyman throughout American history. I wrote an article in Playboy (yes they really have articles) […]
Duncan Hunter and American Political Decay
We have clear founding principles in America. We adhere to a belief of equality of opportunity, equal representation under the law and freedom of choice. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, […]
Stupid and In Charge: The Anti-Fragile Experience of the Junior Officer
I recently finished reading Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. The title and sub get you […]
