My Civil Air Patrol guys did great today on my squadron’s self-inspection: an overall Successful evaluation, 3 Commendable reports, and just 2 discrepancies, 1 of which was cleared up before the inspectors departed. My big takeaway: events, activities, and products of all kinds need to be documented. If we do good things, others need to […]

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My head is exploding. Pres. Obama is authorizing 10,000 Syrian refugees to enter the United States in the next 6 weeks??!! The refugees are largely undocumented because…well, they are REFUGEES, escaping a politically dangerous environment with little but the clothes on their back. The U.S. is amenable to protecting political refugees, but in order to […]

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The best idea I’ve heard in the past day or so following the Islamist terror attacks in Paris last week: invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization charter, which says that an attack on one member is an attack on all; build a Desert Storm-sized military coalition; and march into Syria and Iraq, […]

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I flew a pilot proficiency flight yesterday, flying into unfamiliar airports and busy Class B airspace (surrounding the country’s busiest airports), just to challenge myself a little and get comfortable in flying in these areas. As the accident report often states: “everything was normal and routine until…” I approached the destination airport. On approach I […]

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I look at qualifications and I look for passion when voting for President. There’s only one candidate that has both: Governor Chris Christie. Jeb Bush has the qualifications, but he lacks the passion. He looks like a guy forced to run for president. I like Sen. Marco Rubio but he is a little short of […]

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I’ll be a presenter at the 15th anniversary of the La Jolla Writers Conference this weekend in San Diego (check out http://lajollawritersconference.com/schedule/). I was at the very first conference way back when, when it really was in La Jolla, CA, and I couldn’t resist being part of this anniversary event. The founder and originator of […]

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I promise I won’t be overly political in my posts, but when it comes to the U.S. military, I get riled up easily… …Like when we are promised No Boots On The Ground In Syria. At first President Obama’s big push was Get Out Of Iraq. Iraq was not the “right” war. Iraq and Saddam […]

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