Outside the Beltway

The “We Were Soldiers Once” author and his wife have been honored.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

A silly, sexist WSJ op-ed has generated plenty of attention.

General Milley speaks an obvious truth. Will apologists listen?

The debate is ultimately academic.

For months, Ted Cruz said the nomination of Loretta Lynch must be blocked. Then, he failed to show up when the Senate voted on her nomination.

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge is creating a scandal where none exists.

Facing a tough re-election battle, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is engaging in abject fearrmongering.

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

The I Am The Captain Of The Farm Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Yesterday afternoon’s shooting spree at Fort Hood appears to be a related to post-traumatic stress.

At least one person wonders why the US Army honors Confederate generals.

The Army has ruled, correctly, that the victims of Major Nidal Hassan are not entitled to the Purple Heart.

The Pentagon considers those killed by Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood three years ago victims of workplace violence, not terrorism.

The Fort Hood shooter is being ordered to shave his beard or have it forcibly removed. It’s rather silly.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

Stephanie Guttman, author of something called The Kinder, Gentler Military, takes to NRO to tell us how easy it is to cut the Defense budget. She inadvertently does just the opposite.

We really need a better understanding of mental health disorders in this county, and events like those over the weekend underscore this fact.

There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

Another undercover sting nets a would-be terrorist.

A US soldier who captured a deadly 2009 rampage at Fort Hood with his cell phone camera testified Friday that he was ordered to erase the video by his commanders.

Should members of the Armed Forces and other public employees have the same rights under the 1st Amendment as the rest of us? Or should they be more like journalists?

The American Family Association has ramped up the nation’s anti-Muslim sentiment yet again.