I’m running Ray McMurrey’s campaign for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn. Our main opponent in the primary is five-term state Rep. Rick Noriega, who spends most of his time talking about how he serves in the National Guard. Apparently, my entire family — including me — should run for Senate because we’ve all been active-duty. [...]

Let’s get something out of the way here first. I love The Tank. It’s right up there with OP-FOR and Danger Room to me. So I’m happy just to have been noticed and referred to by W. Thomas Smith Jr. — even if it is only to take me to task for this post. I [...]

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson has a ridiculous “column” at National Review Online today. I put column in scare-quotes because the majority of it is a listing of blurbs from American soldiers blasting the anti-war left. Where do the quotes come from? Patterson’s new book, War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our [...]

Two great ads have appeared in recent weeks pointing out the harm caused to our country and our fellow citizens by continuing to follow the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy and the failure of our government to yet provide hate-crimes protection to the GLBT community, respectively. [Hotel Tango: Sam Smoot]

Thank God for PBS. I watched FRONTLINE’s “Endgame” last night on their Web site. If you want to know how we ended up where we are in Iraq, and the new strategy that’s being employed by Gen. Petraeus and American forces in-country, you have to watch this. In fact, it should be required viewing for [...]

O, the Doublespeak! The hypocrisy! From Military.com Veteran’s Report: As the House of Representatives prepared to pass its fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill, the White House urged lawmakers to reconsider a host of costly personnel initiatives added by the armed services committee. Initiatives opposed by the White House included: Bigger Pay Raises Higher TRICARE Fees [...]