Dan Rackley is a US Naval veteran living in Philadelphia and a contributor to "Will They Ever Trust Us Again?" On twitter: @danwrackley.
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Ron Paul's Advice: Don't Pay Your Bills
Even the best of us slip up. Occasionally, our most brilliant minds will succumb to a temporary lapse of sanity. Whether it’s the star baseball player that swings for the fences when he should have bunted or the politician that says something inappropriate at an inopportune time, nobody is immune ...
Debt Ceiling: Both Sides Need To Come To Agreement Soon
Sometimes it seems that the ultra partisan nature of American politics is absolutely befuddling. Many a time, if you are in the need to be thoroughly confused; turn on CNN or any of the cable news channels. Take the fight between the Republicans and Democrats concerning the national debt ceiling. ...
Obama Press Conference: Not Saying Anything Says A Lot
A lot of people will at the very least agree with the fact that President Obama has a big heaping plate of problems in front of him on a daily basis. Most of which are justified. I wrote several weeks ago that the situation in Libya is an extremely tricky ...
Obama Announces Troop Withdrawal: But Be Patient
When people want something, they want it now. They don’t want to wait, no matter how tough the logistics of an immediate solution would be. In his speech last night, President Obama announced the start of a gradual drawdown of troops starting this year and finishing up in 2014. In ...
Memorial Day Should Not Be For Campaigning
On Memorial Day, making stops in Mount Vernon and Gettysburg Pennsylvania; Sarah Palin kicked off the start of what she is calling her “One Nation” tour. For the untrained eye, she is using Memorial Day events in those areas to test the waters on what she hopes will amount to ...
Trump Circus Possibly Back On Tour
Last week when Donald Trump announced that he was not going to run for President of The United States, I had assumed that the Trump Circus was over. That we could strike the tents and put the performing animals back in their cages. Well, now that he’s got Celebrity Apprentice ...
ICC Issues Arrest Warrant For Libyan Dictator Gadhafi
Better late than never. That very well may have been the opinion of many around the world when we all learned of the death of Osama Bin Laden two weeks ago. In was the general consensus that he was an evil man that had done evil things. Agreed. But now ...
The Gas Prices Will Eventually Get You
Well folks, if you were looking for a column this morning to read your morning coffee to, I apologize for my terrible lateness. See what I was doing, is I was on the way to the doctor. When out of nowhere this machine with a long hose on the end ...
White House Balks On Paying Bin Laden Reward Money
Yesterday the White House’s Press Secretary Jay Carney made the announcement during a press conference that nobody is going to receive the twenty five million dollar bounty that was commissioned for finding Osama Bin Laden. Apparently the White House’s stance on the situation is that since no one person knowingly ...
Who Should Get The Bounty On Osama Bin Laden
Not too long after the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington DC, the United States Government authorized a bounty for capture or kill of Osama Bin Laden. In the wake of the events that unfolded in those two cities, it was an unheard of yet extremely justifiable sum. ...
Osame Bin Laden Dead: One Veteran's Thoughts
I remember exactly where I was. I had walked into one of my department offices on the USS Bataan. I had filed a request for a four day liberty to visit my father. We were scheduled to go on a deployment not too long after September 11 to begin with. ...
So the Birth Certificate Is Out, Will Donald Trump Please Shut Up Now?
So it looks like a few of you have strong opinions about the Donald Trump presidential run. Thankfully, all of America’s sanity has not been lost. At least I can go to sleep at night knowing that I’m not the only one that thinks it’s a bunch of garbage and ...
I actually agree with Townhall.com on something
I rarely agree with anything that anyone at Townhall.com puts into print. I don’t exactly appreciate the Obama bashing. Sometimes I think that they just blindly bash any Democrat and their agenda. But amidst all of the bashing of Democrats and the vilification of President Obama on a daily basis, ...
So Donald Trump Wants To Run For President
My wife and I were talking about the various news stories of the week this morning when once again the subject of Donald Trump’s impending decision to announce his candidacy for president of the United States came up. This really got my blood boiling. The past couple of weeks the ...
Government Shuts Down At Midnight
In a few hours from the time of this writing, unless both sides of Congress can come to an agreement, the United States government will shut down for the first time since 1995. The main sticking point as it seems from looking at all the major news sources is that ...
Obama Shoulders Responsibility
Last night Barack Obama took to a podium to expound on the reasons for the U.S. involvement in the Libyan situation. I had been half convinced up until the speech that the American airstrikes against forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi were a good and reasonable solution to an alarming international ...
Townhall.com Gets It Wrong Again
So the good folks over at townhall.com are at it again. This time, it’s Steve Chapman discussing something he refers to as “Obama’s Fatal Attraction To War.” All because Obama sent in air attacks against Gadhafi forces to help reinforce United Nations Resolutions. Calling him a hypocrite for sanctioning the ...
Kyle Olson Makes Conservatives Look Like Children
Once again, I woke up this morning and after taking my son to school I poured my cup of coffee. I started looking around for my dose of news. Instead of looking for news like I should I was going around doing some light advertising for my blog. I came ...
I don’t write a column every day. There’s a reason for that. I like to provide you with nothing but the finest in news, opinions, information, and occasional light entertainment. To provide you with all of that at once today; I’m just going to rapid fire a whole bunch of ...
My wife and I were watching the news the other night when something came on about homeless veterans. I sat and listened to the story and was absolutely dumbfounded that in a country like ours; well over a hundred thousand men and women that served in the military are without ...
House Republicans Vote To Cut PBS Funding
Every Wednesday at ten in the evening, my wife and I settle down in the living room to watch a couple of our favorite shows. By this time, our son is usually in bed and we got the TV to ourselves for a little bit. We’ve become enamored the past ...
So everyone, it’s Tuesday already. Like normal, I woke up and got my son ready for school. After I got back I started scanning the news to report on the latest collective civil outrage in our country. So what’s the one thing so far this week that is gripping everyone’s ...
A few weeks ago, a young eighth grader in Upper Darby, PA was walking home from school. For reasons to rational person could possibly come up with; over half a dozen other kids, ranging from thirteen years old to seventeen surrounded the young man and beat him senseless. For twenty ...
Tea Party Representative Suggests Cutting VA Budget
My family and I intently watched the State of The Union address this past week, and I just as intently listened to the Republican response. Following the Republican response, one of the talking heads doing the blow by blow follow up then informed us there will be a response from ...
Vietnam Vet Dropped From Insurance Provider
In my last column I discussed the passive mistreatment directed towards veterans like myself at government sponsored facilities like the Philadelphia VA hospital. To sum it up in just a few words for those of you who missed the last one; a certain segment of the support staff at the ...
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December 17th, 2012
The NRA's Quiet In Wake Of Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting
I've been mulling over in my head for the past couple of days, what if anything I would have to contribute to the discourse about ...
November 7th, 2012
Things I've Learned From the 2012 Election
Well, those of you that stayed up late to watch the election returns on the east coast will be saddened to know that I unfortunately ...
September 10th, 2012
9/11 From One Sailor's Perspective
I’m no hero. I’m not by any means what one could call a major player in the events that unfolded on September 11, 2001. Like ...
September 6th, 2012
I don't mean to say the party conventions are unnecessary....
But they are. Think about this for five seconds. Think of all the money that could have gone to worthy causes. That could have helped ...
May 25th, 2012
In the past I have expressed my feelings, beliefs and sentiments towards a great deal of issues here. Some have agreed with me, some have ...
November 14th, 2011
Occupy Philly Needs To Reassess Itself
Over a month ago, I took to Dilworth Plaza on the grounds of Philadelphia’s City Hall to capture what I had hoped were people with ...
October 31st, 2011
Veteran Unemployment: Is This The Welcome Home We Really Get?
More by Dan Rackley There’s a great thing about Bruce Springsteen songs. Hidden in many of the lyrics, are jabs at the treatment of various ...
September 10th, 2012
9/11 From One Sailor's Perspective
I’m no hero. I’m not by any means what one could call a major player in the events that unfolded on September 11, 2001. Like ...
August 24th, 2011
Time For Gadhafi To Give It Up?
Alright folks, here is the column that I was going to present to you yesterday that was preempted by the East Coast Earthquake. By the ...
August 29th, 2011
Bachmann Puts Foot In Mouth, Too Little Too Late George W. Bush
Couple of quick political pieces for all of you. I sit down at the desk to write something about the Hurricane Irene media coverage and ...
June 23rd, 2011
Obama Announces Troop Withdrawal: But Be Patient
When people want something, they want it now. They don’t want to wait, no matter how tough the logistics of an immediate solution would be. ...
February 3rd, 2011
A few weeks ago, a young eighth grader in Upper Darby, PA was walking home from school. For reasons to rational person could possibly come ...
February 19th, 2011
House Republicans Vote To Cut PBS Funding
Every Wednesday at ten in the evening, my wife and I settle down in the living room to watch a couple of our favorite shows. ...
October 6th, 2011
Ron Paul Wants Obama Impeached For Al-Awlaki Killing
Ron Paul has gone too far this time. He has simply stepped over the line on this one. For those of you that missed it, ...
'Dirty Wars' by Jeremy Scahill
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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