Gold Star Mom Speaks Out

No one has ever been foolish enough to tell me to get over my son's death.  If they did, I would point to this story nearly 10 year late...

The government shutdown has been going on for more than a week now. So called non-essential services were shut down and those who provide t...

With the 12th anniversary of  the attacks on 9/11/2011 quickly approaching, I am getting grumpier by the day.  Beyond the national tragedy a...

Here we are again.  Despite my lack of updating this blog, this Gold Star Mom continues to use my First Amendment rights on a regular basis....

" They're not in Hollywood anymore ."  That is the tagline for the new NBC series " Stars Earn Stripes " which premi...

Congressman Trent Franks   (R-AZ) comments about the economy pissed me off tonight.   He said: “There are people lying out in Arlington N...

The email I got from my son when Saddam Hussein was killed back in December 2003 said "We got him".  Ken had been in Iraq for 7 mo...

It's not as if the government doesn't already know a ridiculous amount of information about us anyway.  The information that they...

Those of us who watch how members of Congress deal with Veterans issues and how they treat veterans themselves, would do well to keep an eye...

Oprah Winfrey had an "ah-ha moment" of her own on her show about military families today. She admitted  that she was one of the ...

I don't know anything about Antrel Rolle, until tonight I had never heard his name.  There is one thing I know for sure is that Antrel R...

I had forgotten everything I liked about baseball, or maybe I had just tucked it away for the last 6 1/2 years.  Everything changed the day ...

Clearly, gamers, especially those who play violent war games, get their panties in a knot when they feel a game is at risk of not being publ...

It's been a while since I named anyone and shamed 'em, but 3 baseball players from the NY Mets made the list due to a recent no show...

It's nice when karma comes around and bites someone in the butt; someone who thought they were too good to get caught and too good to pl...