The Grouse That Roared I have this fantastic idea for a book that I would like to pitch to New York publishers, but I thought…
J.C. Bruce
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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has recycled a two-year-old column in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton mass murders in which he points out…
Downsized, Disconnected: A Smaller Military at Work We were herded from the rooftop of the American Embassy in the West African Republic of Nogoland. Gun…
Storms in the Dead of Night FORT BRAGG, N.C. – It’s the dead of night and we’re standing in a flatbed truck in the middle…
Aboard a City at Sea They call it a COD. It’s a noisy, smelly, albatross of an airplane the Navy uses to shuttle cargo and…
NORAD Keeps Eye on the Sky COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – We were deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, buried beneath thousands of feet of solid granite designed…
‘Remember We’re Here’ How important is a strong military to the United States? Ask Adm. James Loy, commandant of the Coast Guard: “Because of the…
When Journalists Disappear, Taxpayers Get Hit in the Wallet A new study published in the Columbia Journalism Review has established how the cost of government…
The Day the Evil Tronc Killed the Daily Planet So long, Clark Kent. Adios Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. The Daily Planet as we’ve known…
Of Santa and Unintelligent Design It’s Christmas, which means it’s that time of year when a federal court somewhere renders a ruling on the separation…