High Ground Underground

On this 75th anniversary of D-Day, I thought I'd honor the memory of those in my family who served in that war and since.  3 in WWII (photos from Family Search): my uncle Keith Clayson who operated the radar on the USS Enterprise;    my uncle Vid Clayson in the Rainbow Division who liberated Dachau;    and my uncle Don Harwood who was in the Army Air Force in India doing weather related work for the planes "flying the hump" to China.  My father Reed Clayson was in the Army artil lery (Fort Bliss, Texas) in the early '50's.  My uncle Reed Hartvigsen also in the Army I think at Fort Irwin near Barstow about the same time.  2 Air Force cadets: brother-in-law Jay Winzenried who was a pilot then doctor in a MASH unit in the Kosovo war; and nephew Johann Johnson entering his 4th year at the Air Force Academy.  His brother Anders is in ROTC, and my grand-niece Annelise wants to go to the Air Fo...

6/1/19 More double standard, pot calling the kettle black, a “special exonerator,” and “cultural imperialism.”   Dems, Brennan, Clapper etc. think it an outrage that Trump may legally declassify some of their work related to Spygate, but they’re all for illegally declassifying redacted portions of the Mueller report.   If they want openness, let’s have bipartisan openness. Media commentators etc. are criticizing Trump for supposedly being soft on or championing despots, or siding with them on Biden’s IQ.   As Levin points out, his actions have been much stronger against Cuba, Russia, China, Iran, N. Korea & Venezuela than Obama, who of course got no criticism from them, but only praise.   Obama put a U.S. embassy in Havana & opened trade/travel, whispered to Medvedev “tell Vlad I’ll have more flexibility after the election” & did little or nothing after Russia invaded Ukraine, he did little to nothing about China’s trade thefts & S. China S...