The Launchpad

Tag: Politics

  • Forts and Senators

    On Thursday, Donald Trump went to the Home of the Airborne- Fort (Roland Bragg (ex-Liberty, ex-(Braxton) Bragg) to gawk at a staged demonstration by the 82nd and other attached forces and give a typical Trump-rally speech. Normally, Presidential appearances at bases are at least somewhat discrete, with the caveat that Presidents of both parties have…

  • Gun Control

    You’d think the Democratic Party would learn. After getting shellacked at the ballot box in 2022 and 2024 and whiffing a highly consequential election by “nominating” the ultimate protected hire, Democratic Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has picked up Don Quixote’s lance and gone for his latest tilt at the windmill…gun control. So, first, let’s be…

  • H.R. 867

    There’s a lot of chaos that came up over the weekend, and in any ordinary circumstance, I’d be chewing through some easy fodder like Trump’s unhinged “100% tariff on foreign films to SAVE HOLLYWOOD” or re-prisoning Alcatraz Island, but there’s more important things happening under the surface and they don’t involve the White House at…

  • DEI

    Immediately after winning confirmation as the Secretary of Defense, controversial former Fox News host and National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth went to war…on the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The problem, as Republicans define it, is that efforts to promote diversity suppress merit-based promotions and ultimately allows persons who are unfit to serve into…

  • Water Doesn’t Flow Uphill

    So, it’s been nearly a decade since I last used this platform, so please bear with me. Today, I’m sitting on the edge of entering middle age, and I’m quite a bit wiser than I was when I used to write screeds on Facebook.  A lot has changed in the last decade. Not so much…

  • J.A.G.

    Back in the 1990s, Donald Bellisario, a TV producer, was looking for his next great idea. After what I presume was an incredibly boring night of whatever old people did in the early 1990s, he came up with the idea of a show about military lawyers. Paramount bought it, ran it for ten seasons, and…