Posts Tagged ‘veteran writers’
Chapter 2 “Here, Hasibullah? You’re sure this is the place?” “Yes, this is it,” Hasibullah answered. “It’s the same place I met the Chinaman before.” A hundred freezing Taliban fighters huddled in the pitch-black woods beside a dirt road in the Tagab Valley, in northeastern Afghanistan’s Kapisa Province. Steam rose from the clusters they’d gathered […]
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Tags: Fort Davis, military fiction, Texas, veteran writers
[If you haven’t watched Star Wars: The Last Jedi yet, don’t read this.] As it turns out, Star Wars: The Last Jedi wasn’t just a science fiction movie. In reality, it was a lesson about sexism that we men badly needed. Or something. According to those who find a misogynist under every rock, Poe Dameron’s […]
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Tags: SJW, The Last Jedi, veteran writers
This was published last Sunday on Breach Bang Clear. Motoring Jihad: Vehicle Ramming Attacks Chris Hernandez Berlin, Germany. Nice, France. Ohio State University, USA. Westminster Bridge, London, UK. Stockholm, Sweden. Times Square, New York, USA*. And now London, UK. Again. Vehicle ramming attacks (VRAs) are becoming the preferred tactic of our jihadist terrorist enemy. […]
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Tags: jihad, terrorism, vehicle ramming attacks, veteran writers
As I’ve written before, I have an autistic son. I’ve also been a cop for almost 23 years. So when I saw the video of North Miami PD shooting the caretaker of an autistic man last July, and heard the officer’s explanation that he was actually trying to shoot the autistic man, I was…perplexed. Just from a tactical […]
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Tags: autism, police work, veteran writers
When Trump’s “Grab them by the pussy” video broke, I was disgusted but not surprised. I decided he was a clown show long ago, this just confirmed what a gigantic douchebag he is. In the video he admitted to sexually harassing and assaulting women; however, many of his supporters laughed it off as “bad language” […]
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Tags: election 2016, trump, veteran writers
Slaying Daesh: An Interview with an American Advisor in Iraq Chris Hernandez I once read a novel about a Vietnam veteran’s life after homecoming. In one scene he’s alone in a bar in April 1975, transfixed to a TV, drinking away anger as he watches the last helicopter lift off the roof of the American […]
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Tags: iraq, iraq war, ISIS, veteran writers
During recent debates with social justice types, I’ve run across something I hadn’t heard before. Apparently, the definition of racism I always accepted is wrong. I thought racism was “a belief in the inherent superiority or inferiority of a race”. Merriam-Webster defines racism as “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and […]
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Tags: racism, SJW stupidity, veteran writers
