Make no mistake. We’d rather burn it all down than be told what we ought to do. And the harder we are told and the less like us the people who are telling us to do it, the harder and further we snap back.
Third Law
Redemption
Somewhere etched into the permanent part of my memory that is the scenes of my childhood, I have an impossibly clear recollection of my CCD teacher—Catholic for Sunday School—asking our class why […]
The Purpose of Strength
A lifetime ago I was stationed in a dusty outpost in a backwater province in one of the dozens of countries American men and women have served in dusty outposts in backwater provinces over […]
The Better Question of Syria
We could bite the hook on the political debates about Syria right now if we really can’t help ourselves.
Where’s Aidan? My favorite question on Autism Awareness Day
“Where’s Aidan?” It’s a question that gets asked out loud or in my head hundreds of times every day in my house. Aidan is my nine year old, highly energetic, […]
A Sense of Honor
Jim Webb graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1968, 31 years before I did. He served in Vietnam as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, was wounded twice and […]
It’s Not Checkers
It’s been more than twenty years since the IBM computer Deep Blue beat Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a six game challenge of chess. Now, a few decades into a reality where something […]
What’s Next?
16 million Americans served during World War II from a country only about 40% as populous as we are today. About half of all working aged men went off to war between […]
Still Conservative
If you’ve followed anything I’ve written on this site, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve read something that says that I believe that I have conservative roots. And that I even […]
Podcast: The Other Fifty Percent
I sat down with Julie Harris Walker from the podcast The Other Fifty Percent: A Herstory of Tech to talk a little about life in the military, leadership, transitioning into the big […]
