Here's how the peaceful transfer of power is supposed to work.

January 20th felt like Christmas all day.

The pain of losing a loved one in wartime has not changed, but the method of finding out of the loss has dramatically changed.

The (mostly) true story how are younger son got his name. You may want to use a different method!

It’s time to face facts folks. 

Everybody gets to have their own opinion. You do not get to have your own facts.

You can have your opinion that Donald J. Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Fine. I have my opinion as to your mistakenness in that opinion. I full well understand that I cannot change your opinion...

This podcast published as an op-ed in the St. Louis and Southern Illinois Labor Tribune, January 27, 2021.

I’m going to speak heresy here. We should be glad we are so politically divided as a nation...

There's free fire zones and cold fire zones.  A free fire zone means you're locked and loaded, safety off,  and eyes in the back of your head. Cold fire zone is a term I made up. It's one of those places American soldiers get sent to keep the peace, or enforce the peace, or make the peace. Some places the weather's cold. Most places the people are cold. Ain't no heroes in keeping people from killing each other. Just another day in doin' the job Uncle Sugar sent us to do.

Some Christmas cards you tuck away. You tuck them away because you can't bear to throw them away. You tuck them way because the memories they bring back haunt you.  This is the story of that one card.

As the attack unfolded in real time on our radios, I realized we were but a few hundred yards away from the attackers, sitting unarmed, in an unprotected warehouse with gaping twelve-foot wide doors blocked open to ventilate the heat...

The dreams that wake you at three am...