U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has sent a letter to Department of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pressuring him -- as he did former secretary Robert Gates -- to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade some to the Medal of Honor.

The DOD has consistently responded that...

The career soldier is and has always been a rare breed. Finding the best and keeping the best requires an incentive package that keeps them in the ranks. It isn't an American invention. Gaius Marius used it in 107 BC when he reorganized the Roman military from a bunch of...

Last June a caravan of cars pulled into the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, S.D., to lay a legendary soldier to rest. Gov. Mike Rounds asked that flags be lowered to half staff across the state in tribute to Clarence Wolf Guts, the last surviving Lakota Sioux "code talker"...

Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. He will be one of four, who have fought in Afghanistan, to receive the nation's highest honor. While President Obama will decorate a living soldier with the medal, Congress...

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' proposed elimination of the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk will do away with more than 6,000 jobs in Virginia. It's the beginnings of a proposed 30 percent cut in the Pentagon's budget over the next three years. This continued reshuffling of defense...

The Senate Intelligence Committee's confirmation hearing for National Intelligence Director James Clapper offered Americans a glimpse of the turf battles currently being waged in the U.S. intelligence community. Senator Ron Wyden's (D-OR) asking Clapper if his office had the authority to overrule the Central Intelligence Director and Clapper's "I do"...

The political fury over opposition to Arizona's immigration law surprised most Americans. Polls continue to show the majority see it as the state's attempt to enforce the existing federal law to stem the flow of illegal immigrants over the Mexican border and control violent crime.

The opposition sees it...

The City of Yonkers, New York, has canceled its Memorial Day Parade this year. What's the news in this? The cause cited by city officials. It wasn't lack of funds, of parade participants or of budget. It was simply that no one is showing up is to see the parade...

While Arizona's new immigration law is creating a national uproar, another controversy on the subject bubbled to the surface a couple of weeks ago when White House Science czar John P. Holdren commented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the United States can't expect to be...

The real solution for strengthening history in public schools wasn't in Texas at their textbook commission. It's sitting in front of Congress with President Obama's overhauled version of the No Child Left Behind Act. The Administration wants all states to develop a common educational standard, but the primary focus is...

The actions of three Los Angeles teachers at the Wadsworth Avenue Elementary school who gave children photographs of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to hold during a parade honoring black history month as a prank earned a suspension for the educators, a rebuke from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a...

Historical preservation in the United States got hit by a freight train when President Obama recently released his FY2011 budget. The President's budget eliminates funding for Save America's Treasures and Preserve America programs and cuts funding for National Heritage Areas by 50 percent. Those are the hardest financial hits historical...