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Yesterday we started a series that proved as popular as we'd hoped; it seemed to generate a lot of discussion. The question was, What can the average American do to be as pragmatically, practically and realistically prepared for an event like Paris, Boston, Madrid,...
The attacks in Paris last Friday are rightfully dominating conversation across the country (except for in certain solipsistic student gatherings in Missouri). In today's Perspectives article, we'll set all politics and sanctimonious commentary aside, we're going to...
The latest American Praetorians novel takes our pipe-hitting protagonists away from the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa to someplace just as vile, dangerous and smelly: the United States-Mexican border.
This video is nearly half an hour long. Don't blow it off. Invest the time and listen to Frank Moore. Mad Duo Life, Love and Flyfishing: WWII Veteran Frank Moore David "Mad Duo David" Reeder Mr. Moore isn't just a man who "stalks the wily trout," nor is he just a WWII...
An understandable mythology of the Revolutionary War era Minute Man, but it is just that: a myth. Colonial militia, legend vs. reality.
Friederich Steuben (1730-1794) wrote of what he described as the ‘American spirit.’ Emerson called hthis icon, the “embattled farmer” who left his home to fight the Redcoats. It’s a big part of Revolutionary War lore.
Though you may not know it from reading the internet, you actually can disagree with someone without resorting to monosyllabic quips or injecting invective. Watch the videos, consider your thoughts, and read the responses. Let us know what you think in the...
It was April 19th, 1995. At 9:02am, a Ryder Rental truck, chock full of a mingle of homemade and commercial explosives, detonated in the unloading zone at the Alfred P Murray Federal Building. It was right below a nursery. In the deadliest terrorist attack the United...
Gather round and take a knee. We're not only going to remember a day in history, but also consider why we should learn from it. Mad Duo Taking Truth from the Dead - Newhall 45 Years Later by David Reeder One of my early LE mentors, Sgt. Jim Clark of the Tulsa...
Successful veterans - entrepreneurs, politicians, artists...there are many of them out there, in as many industries. I am privileged and blessed to know some of them. A couple of months ago on Veteran's Day I wrote an article called Advice to a Veteran's Son (you can...
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