SGT William A. Geresy (ret)'s Blog – February 2019 Archive (6)

BY: Cameron Cawthorne

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told moderate Democrats during a closed-door meeting on Thursday to stop siding with Republicans on procedural votes, saying they could become a lower priority for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2020.

Pelosi met with the Democratic Caucus behind closed doors to discuss recent procedural…

Actor Alec Baldwin said former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen deserves a “Congressional Medal of Honor” for his appearance before a Congressional Committee Wednesday.

The furiously anti-Trump actor said he didn’t know if Cohen was telling the truth but that the former Trump lawyer would help us get past “this nightmare.”

“I don’t know if Michael Cohen is truthful,” Alec Baldwin tweeted on Wednesday, “but if he is, he should get the Congressional Medal of…

Scott A. Huesing

Imagine if in some spectacular move, Trump decided to give active and former members of U.S. Congress even more benefits? That he signed an Executive Order that allowed our elected officials to enjoy the same top-notch healthcare that our nation's veterans enjoy under the current U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

The results would be…

Workers should be able to keep their money 

By Morgan Shields

n her recent State of the State address, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rightly pointed out that Michigan needs to spend more money on roads.

Gov. Whitmer said, “By one estimate, the vehicle damage from Michigan roads costs the average motorist $562 a year in repairs. … That’s money that could go toward child care,…

Erich Reimer

[Views expressed are mine only and do not represent those of the Department of Defense]

Several days ago I graduated from the last parts of my Army officer direct commission training and will soon be sent out into the force of the greatest fighting organization the world has ever known.

Coming from the ease and splendor of media, government, and political life in Washington, D.C., the military was initially a major culture shock in nearly…

Speculation often treated as fact, and definition may be only in eye of beholder.

By Tom Gantert

One of the more underreported aspects of the Green New Deal advocated by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, is its inflated claim about jobs. According to the official language, it is “a historic opportunity to create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States.”

Green or “clean energy” jobs are generally framed in positive terms by the mainstream…