The Conservative Soldier

I am not comfortable with feeble human attempts at scriptural interpretation. There is, for example, a Biblical passage that directs mankind to “be anxious for nothing.” Interpretation: It’s never as bad as you think.
With all due respect to the letter writers whose work became the all-time bestseller, these guys could not have imagined anxiety as […]

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United Airlines announced this week it is cutting 7,000 jobs by the end of next year.
I hope the 7,000 include some of the lying, arrogant, incompetent and utterly useless employees who transformed our recent routine Washington-to-Chicago trip into an all too typical commercial aviation nightmare.
I know, I know. They’re here for our safety. For example, […]

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It was the perfect storm for a disgruntled liberal in search of a place to assign blame.
Here’s the scene. An American Airlines MD80 on a steamy, overcast afternoon yesterday, at a gate at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, bound for Chicago-O’Hare.
We’re about to be pushed back, almost on time, when The Captain, in his best I-am-a-Senior-Pilot-with-a-vault-full-of-worthless-stock-options voice, […]

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