I am on my way to other things, this morning, and am going to leave you with the sixth installment of the Nick Danger saga from the Indian Ocean. Of note, the thing that got me sidetracked was an earnest discussion of the nature of the imperative driving Israel’s options in dealing with the rising […]

We didn’t know then what we know now, thank goodness, else we might not have kept bumbling forward. There was a distinct wave of energy and purpose about what we were doing, at least in the beginning, when it appeared we might actually do something rash, Carter Administration or no. By now in the parallel […]

(Blindfolded US captives at the Embassy in Tehran, Iran, 1979. You would think if there was a time to go to General Quarters, this would be it. Instead we seem to be sleepwalking through all sorts of stuff that is really important. I am not going to go off on the Iran Nuclear Talks, the […]

(Iranian militants storm the US Embassy in Tehran, Nov. 4th, 1979. In years previous, the Marine Guard in Santo Domingo stood off violent protesters and were awarded medals. In Tehran, they were directed to stand down. Image courtesy Getty Images. Right reserved). In the parallel universe of CV-41, steaming post haste for the North Arabian […]

(FITRON ONE FIVE ONEF-4 Phantom 2 goes aviating off the pointy end of Midway-Maru (CV-41) Photo USN). So, I readily acknowledge that this is going to be a little schitzo, but if you have been around The Daily for a while you are probably used to it. This is a bit like a novel I […]

(USS Ranger (CV-61) bow the morning after the collision in the Straits of Malacca. US Navy image). OK- so out of left field comes this request to talk about the whole Nick Danger thing. It was the first book I ever inadvertently wrote, and it was a long time ago, more than 35 years as […]

(Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) takes a bite at the Annual Hot Dog Day Lunch in the courtyard of the Rayburn House Office Building July 23. The event draws hundreds of people from Capitol Hill, including members of Congress, their staffs, journalists and lobbyists and possibly a couple honest Americans. Image courtesy Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North […]

(Natasha has brought the green thumb of Yalta in the fertile Crimea to the fields of Culpeper County. This basket she kindly game me includes corn, potatoes, cucumbers, tart pickles and dill from her garden. It is magnificent). I am torn between the desire to crank out a story about our worthless government, terrorists, the […]

(Wartime image of Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Comte de Saint Exupéry, in front of his P-38 Lightning fighter. Born in Lyons, France, in 1900, he learned to fly when he was twelve and became an adventurer in the French colonial empire and an aviation pioneer. He was awarded the Prix Femina for his book “Night […]

It was a hundred degrees outside, first of those squishy humid days here by the placid Potomac. Jiggs played golf down in southern Maryland- I didn’t attempt anything so rash after the Burger Bash in Rosslyn on Saturday. I contented myself with periodic plunges in the glittering blue waters of the pool where our Polish […]