Japan Observes 67th Anniversary of Hiroshima Attack

At London's Daily Mail, " Prayers for peace: Japanese light hundreds of lanterns to mark the 67th anniversary of those killed in Hi...

America's Navy: A Global Force for Good

Here's the "Power" advertisement that ran this week during the Olympics:

The DDG-1000 Zumwalt, the U.S. Navy's Next-Generation Destroyer

This is cool. At London's Daily Mail , " Navy's answer to a rising China: $3 billion warship that can sneak up on coastlines un...

Commemorating 100 Years of Marine Corps Aviation

Via Theo Spark :

Fighter Pilot

Via Maggie's Farm : Also at Theo's : "Grab a beer, turn down the lights, turn off your cell phone, shut the door and watch full...

The Myth of America's Decline

From Walter Russell Mead, at the Wall Street Journal : The United States isn't in decline, but it is in the midst of a major rebalancing...

Robert Kagan: American Power Preserves Freedom and Prosperity

See Kagan's essay at CNN, " America has made the world freer, safer and wealthier ": We take a lot for granted about the way t...

From the Marines: Toward the Sounds of Chaos

Via Theo Spark :

Oops! MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Spews Hatred of American Exceptionalism: Racist Attack Blogger Walter James Casper III Caught Lying Again!

Newsbusters has the story, " Rachel Maddow Sniffs in Disdain at Belief in America as 'Shining' City on a Hill ." I've ...

Blogging in 2012

I will mark six years of blogging in April 2012. I have to laugh a little when I check out some of my earliest efforts. I'm a much bette...

24 Hours on an Aircraft Carrier — USS Carl Vinson

This is so cool, via Theo Spark : The Carl Vinson 's Wikipedia page is here . And at ESPN, " Producer chronicles a typical 24 hours...

Who Killed Horatio Alger?

From Luigi Zingales, at City Journal : The title character of Horatio Alger’s 1867 novel Ragged Dick is an illiterate New York bootblack wh...

Decline of American Exceptionalism?

Charles Blow, at the New York Times , draws the wrong conclusion from the recent report at Pew Research indicating that less than a majorit...

Harvard's Stephen Walt: 'The Myth of American Exceptionalism'

At Foreign Policy . I saw this a couple of weeks back and wasn't the least bit surprised, especially since I learned that Walt was a fea...