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It's true that most Lt. Cols. don't advance beyond that. Kind of like Master Sergeant in the NCO rank; it's where most top-out. Yet, Lieutenants and Captains are junior officers. Majors and Lt. Cols. and above are senior officers. If a meeting were called for senior officers, the majors and...

I don't know how you can call that man a child molester. He has a problem, definitely, but if he's got it under control.... Sure, you'd want to keep an eye on him and not let him get into a situation in which he might slip, but I don't think you could call him a molester. After all, a...

Yeah, but she was a senior officer there. You'd have to say she was a leader of armed men, if only indirectly. Of course, there they treat mere majors like airmen and privates, but nevertheless, even there, a Lt. Col is a senior officer.

You are correct that Lincoln bears a huge amount of guilt for where we find ourselves, with weak states and a Leviathan federal government, the opposite of what our Founding Fathers intended, but it actually started earlier than that. The Whiskey Rebellion and the Alien and Sedition Acts were...

No, didn't win any medals for heroism myself. But he did. And it was his military service that brought him to the conclusion that war is a racket. If you google that term, you'll find a lot of information about him. That he, through his military service, figured out that all is not as it...

Well, let's see...Col. Kwiatkowski was stationed in the Pentagon, so I suppose you could say she lead people who carried them, and I respect her. Calvin Coolidge was the Commander-In-Chief, and he was our last good president; I respect his memory. Aside from that, I respect peace officers, as...

Your sig line shows that you understand, too.

Served in the military, with security clearances like Manning's. So yes, I do understand the military. Like Smedley Butler, a bona fide war hero, medal of honor awardee, and more medals than chest, maybe it's my military service that has brought me to what I believe. When I was in, the...

I got a pretty good handle on your political beliefs by your stance on rights. No one whose stance on rights is as amorphous as yours is a conservative. Col. Kwiatkowski is. "The Dimmer" isn't a liberal label; it's a label given him by people who were far more conservative than he to...

Maybe they're happy about it. Some people aren't happy unless they're enslaved. When I was in the military, a friend of mine always bemoaned how he had wished basic training was tougher. He said, "They should be allowed to throw us through windows!" I think some people have the same opinion...

Lt. Col Kwiatkowski does not back political correctness. She is probably a paleoconservative/libertarian hybrid, like me, though I've never heard her label herself. I've read countless of her articles, though, so I'm fairly confident about that. The thing is, being a paleoconservative, she...

From: Former GOP congressman predicts new Sedition Act | Raw Story Those of you who lovingly fawn and slobber over government, those of you who feel the need for a master governing your lives, even though that master is comprised of humans as fallible (or moreso) than you, is this what you...

The opinion of a USAF Lt. Col, who, it can be presumed, is a little more familiar with military justice than the rest of us keyboard commandos, doncha think?

Patently false. They teach in basic training that the Bill of Rights still applies, and that you still have every civil right you had before you enlisted. They are, indeed, two separate animals, and they exist in parallel. And in our system of government, the military is under civilian...

I haven't saved them, but I've read of them maybe half a dozen times.

Being that the charge is that he released classified material to an uncleared party but not a foreign government, the possible sentence is up to 52 years. So it's not treason, and not a capital offense. And again, perhaps we should give him a trial first, whaddya think? Allegedly. To the...

Manning has rights under the Bill of Rights. The UCMJ further codifies them without subtracting from the Bill of Rights. They cover that in basic training. The conditions Manning is experiencing have been published in several places. He's locked up 23 hours a day, deprived of a pillow and...

I read stuff by a bunch of liberals on this forum. I'm not one of them. I'm a socially conservative libertarian. We libertarians, who love the Bill of Rights, believe, among other things, that pre-trial confinement is to ensure the accused shows up in court, not to punish. And punishing is...

Hmmm... think we should give him a trial first, or just storm the sheriff's office, break him out and string him up? And would it be just a show trial, or should we wait for a conviction? I don't know about you (actually, I do, based on what you've posted on the matter), but perhaps we...

This info must be VERY old. I clicked on 4 states road conditions maps and every one was a bad link.