A Sadly Necessary Education About “Our” Military

By Anna Von ReitzI know more about the military in sum total, its history, its glories, and its abject failures than any normal civilian will ever know. My Father was in the Eighth Army Air Force in WWII and carried the scars literally and figuratively throughout his...

The Importance of Land and Who Owns It?

By Anna Von ReitzWhen the current world organizational structure was set up, three basic jurisdictions were set up: air, land and sea.The Pope controlled the air. The Spanish King controlled the land.The British King controlled the sea.And the Spanish and British...

“Excess Death” — Yet Another Filthy Euphemism

By Anna Von ReitzMy Fourth Grade teacher, Doris Condie, hated euphemisms with a rare passion. Whenever she caught someone using a euphemism, like “passed on” for “died”, she would quietly correct them — whether child or adult.Her argument...

Haunted Thanksgiving

By Anna Von ReitzIt was perfectly obvious to me at age seven that LBJ and the CIA killed Jack Kennedy. There was never any doubt. My parents shot glances at each other across the kitchen table. They knew, too.They didn’t want to know, but they knew.If we all knew, why...