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Articles Written by: JAMES DAVID DICKSON
Deployment to the battlefield is the gravest and most important form of national service. But as the country learned during Vietnam, the most important battles are often fought on the home front. Troops who are preoccupied with whether the grass is ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
Human Events Online,
23 Sep 2008
Senator William Turner wants to make his vision of the American Dream a reality. The costs of his program are high. He pledges to pay for them by completely withdrawing the U.S. military from foreign soil.
"If we slashed our military budget in half we' ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
28 May 2008
"Americans," explained Captain Dale Dyle, "don't want to see our troops portrayed as killers."
Hollywood seems late to understand that message despite the low earnings of movies that trash service in the U.S. military. Lions for Lambs ($15 million), ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
Human Events Online,
27 May 2008
That the West Virginia Mountaineers might be closer to a national championship in football than the Michigan Wolverines is perhaps the biggest compliment on can pay new Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez.
His first task in Ann Arbor is to change that ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
13 May 2008
"Anyone who doesn't want to be here, please leave," yelled Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis after his team's nationally televised 13-34 drubbing to the New England Patriots in week four of the 2007 season.
Wide receiver Chad Johnson decided to ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
29 Apr 2008
"'Do they support us back home?' That was a common question [from the troops] -- which surprised me," said Alison Barber.
That, she told TAS, was when she knew there was a growing and troubling "disconnect" between the boots on the ground and the ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
25 Apr 2008
It wasn't until Atlantic reporter Joshua Green called former state representative Danny Carroll that Carroll started to understand what hit him. He had been Speaker Pro Tempore of the Iowa State House, which was controlled by Republicans right up to ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
11 Mar 2008
"THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS."
Those words -- the Schembechler Doctrine -- were the ones that convinced the seniors of the University of Michigan football team to put it together again for one last title run. Just about every fall feels as ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
16 Nov 2007
On the 150th anniversary of Princeton University, in 1896, Woodrow Wilson extolled the virtues of his college: "Princeton was founded upon the very eve of the stirring changes which put the revolutionary drama on the stage -- not to breed politicians, ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
1 Nov 2007
Lawrence Wright's research on Al Qaeda took place over five years and four continents, yet he believes our knowledge of what led to 9/11 has only breached the tip of the iceberg.
That can hardly be attributed to Wright not doing his part. After being ...
From JAMES DAVID DICKSON,
American Spectator,
22 Oct 2007