3,000,000 Unique Visitors

WNU Editor: This is actually not an accurate number. I only put a counter on this blog a few years after I had started blogging, so I proba...

My Commentary On The Death Of Hugo Chavez

My Comment: Growing up in the former Soviet Union gives me a perspective on what it feels like to grow up in a society that is dominated b...

What Are The U.S. Priorities?

President Barack Obama announces the nomination of Sen. John Kerry, right, to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Roos...

I Can Never Be Paid Enough To Do This Job

ROAD WARRIORS U.S. Marines use metal detectors to sweep a hill during a route reconnaissance mission of Route Red, which extends from Highwa...

Retrospective Of Iraq War (Video)

My Comment: So .... was the Iraq war "worth it"? I was a critic before the war .... always arguing on why we should not get invol...

Is This The New Way To Fight A War? (A Commentary)

TASK FORCE - Liaison officers from coalition countries meet with Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn staff members to discuss command and control...

Two Pictures That Give A Human Face To Our Wounded Vets

A FELLOW SOLDIER - Former U.S. Army 1st Lt. Melissa Stockwell speaks to her fellow injured troops during one of the annual Paralympic Milita...

A Picture Says A Thousand Words

Bow To the Chinese (Hat Tip: Drudge ) Another shot of this greeting is here . My Comment : This is not the image that you want Asia to see f...

Go See The Blind Side

WNU Editor: Took the afternoon off and went to see the movie The Blind Side. Had no expectations, I went in because it is a story of footba...

Our Leaders Fail Us ..... Again -- A WNU Commentary

MEDIC'S SALUTE - A first responder to a lone gunman's attack at Fort Hood, Texas, salutes after aiding his fellow soldiers, Nov. 5, ...

AP Publishes Photo Of A Mortally Wounded Marine In Afghanistan

This undated photo provided Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 by the US Marine Corps shows Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, 21. Bernard was hit with a rocket...

Mankind's First Weapons?

Archaeologist Kyle Brown (top) shapes heat-treated stone into replicas of ancient weapons (bottom) in undated pictures.In South Africa, Brow...

Liberal Discontent And The Spies Next Door -- A Commentary

Photo : Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn. From The Wall Street Journal: "Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S....

Obama Is No Reagan -- A Commentary

WNU Editor: When Poland imposed martial law in mid-December 1981, President Reagan forcefully presented the American position of supporting...

WNU Editor: The Afghanistan And Pakistan Conflict Will Now Be Treated As The Same War

WNU Editor: A number of bloggers have been lumping the Afghanistan and Pakistan conflicts together as one big war. I have resisted this ide...

A New Era Begins In U.S. Foreign And Domestic Policy -- A Commentary From The War News Update Team

President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office of the White House Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. White House phot...