In the beginning, the Obama administration directed a spotlight toward its careful, thoughtful decision-making process on Afghanistan. National security meetings were announced, photographed and highlighted in background briefings to the media. President Obama would apply the methods of the academy to the art of war - the University of Chicago meets West Point - thus assuring a skittish public that deliberation had preceded decision. ...more

November 20, 2009

U.S. Military Academy plebe Samuel James Garza recently graduated from the academy's summer basic training regime, which is known as Beast Barracks. ...more

October 14, 2009

Re: "Few Would Have Believed Roof Could Fall In" (Our Opinion, Nov. 1): Congratulations on at least having made the attempt to warn people not to extend themselves too much in the real estate bubble. Having lived through similar bubbles long ago, I saw this coming early, but felt like a Cassandra when nobody would listen. ...more

November 20, 2008

Gen. David Petraeus took charge of U.S. Central Command at a ceremony Friday morning at MacDill Air Force Base, saying his first trip after being sworn in would be to Pakistan. ...more

November 1, 2008

Gen. David Petraeus took charge of U.S. Central Command at a ceremony Friday morning at MacDill Air Force Base, saying his first trip after being sworn in would be to Pakistan. ...more

October 31, 2008

Let's get something straight. The U.S. House of Representatives has been in Democratic hands for two years. The Democrats chair all committees; rule the roost. The latest Rasmussen tracking poll finds that 9 percent of the public thinks Congress is doing a good job. Fifty-two percent think Congress is doing a poor job. The leader of the House is Nancy Pelosi from San Francisco, the most politically strange city in America. Our congressman Tim Mahoney is part of that majority. That majority has failed to face the energy crisis, failed to act, improve health care, failed to act on Iraq and failed to fix Social Security. Their leadership is standing still. ...more

October 17, 2008

Republicans living in Florida's 16th District have an extremely difficult decision to make when they cast a vote for U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming primary election. In fact, it might be the most difficult choice they've made in years. ...more

July 30, 2008

I am frankly mystified at the endless palaver concerning the surge, which, according to my recollections, was an infusion of some 25,000 additional troops into Iraq last year. Such a decision was not a change in tactics or certainly not a new strategy, yet it is currently a subject of political debate as if such a decision was a stroke of military genius as to warrant a complete rewrite of the curriculum at West Point. ...more

July 28, 2008

The U.S. Military Academy will now honor its daughters as well as its sons in two of its beloved songs. ...more

June 5, 2008

Ridgewood High School's baseball team was suffering only its sixth loss of the season, at crosstown rival Gulf High, on April 13, 2007. ...more

June 4, 2008