by Piper Bayard | Jul 4, 2013 | Life and Death
By Piper BayardAt this time in America’s history, partisanship is more heated than it has been since the Civil War. We are regularly smacked in the face by evidence that both major political parties put their own interests above the interests of our nation....
by Piper Bayard | Oct 17, 2012 | Book Reviews
By Jay Holmes DOUBLE CROSS addresses one of the more complex and important intelligence operations of World War Two. It explains how the UK’s MI-5 Counter Intelligence division quite effectively turned and managed German spies in an attempt to deceive Germany...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 11, 2012 | Apocalypse
image from US Navy I woke up to hear a voice on the radio saying that two planes had crashed into the twin towers. I knew instantly it was no accident, but I had no way to compute the information with my pre-9/11 mindset. Then I turned on the TV, and I knew our world...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 2, 2012 | News
By Jay Holmes As most folks know by now, on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 author “Mark Owen” will release “No Easy Day,” a first hand account of the Osama Bin Laden mission. I have not read the book and will not guess at the veracity of its contents,...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 26, 2012 | Life and Death
By Piper BayardMy parents sat us in front of the TV on that July day back in 1969 and said, “You will want to tell your children about this.” We watched Neil Armstrong take the first walk on the moon, not understanding how remarkable it was, but thinking it was...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 18, 2012 | Current Affairs, History
By Jay Holmes This weekend, two seemingly disconnected pieces of news were announced. One informed us that Libya’s former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, was arrested Saturday at an airport in Mauritania. The other was that convicted Sobibor...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 8, 2012 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Jay Holmes After dealing with so much grim material of late, like Iran and Syria, I needed to write about something more cheerful. In the USA, we celebrate Mothers Day on the second Sunday of each May. We celebrate Fathers Day on the third Sunday of each June. At...
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