A long-haul British Airways flight coming in to land at Heathrow Airport suddenly lost all power while on its final landing approach. Scary. Nearly a disaster. The pilot announced, “I’ll just have to glide her in” and did exactly that.… Continue Reading
My new hero, Ezra Levant, gives the Alberta Human Rights Commission what for: More — much more — at his website. The Alberta Human Rights Commission was investigating his publication, in a now-defunct print newspaper published in Calgary, the famous… Continue Reading
The first mountaineer to climb the highest point on Earth died today. It’s well-known that Sir Edmund was the leader of the expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest, and that he and his Sherpa guide, and lifelong… Continue Reading
Biography John Sidney McCain III will be 72 years old on the next Inauguration Day. McCain was born in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone, which at the time was a United States possession. Both his father and grandfather were… Continue Reading
Apparently, for an upcoming movie to be directed by Stephen Sommers (of “The Mummy” fame), G.I. Joe is being transformed into a multinational rapid response force based in Brussels, Belgium. According to Variety, “G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit… Continue Reading
Aayan Hirsi Ali is the modern face of courage and enlightenment. The political leaders of the Netherlands, by contrast, are proving themselves to be craven and short-sighted. A quick biography: Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, the daughter of a… Continue Reading
While reading comments about a rumored replacement for the SR-71, I came across a story of Captain Kim Campbell. I was impressed by her story. Back in 2003, we (meaning the United States and the British, and some Spaniards and… Continue Reading
Memorial Day is about the men and women who died in the defense of the nation. Most particularly it’s about the men who died in the Civil War. Such men as this saved America from its enemies — in this… Continue Reading
Further to my thoughts below about the Virginia Tech killings, there is a sad but heroic story from within the massacre to tell. Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who escaped to Israel from Communist Romania, and a world-acclaimed aeronautical… Continue Reading