I got an email from my buddy Boomer out in Guam, a retired veteran of the Vietnam War, which contained the astute observation that the media had made July 4 all about Trump, while the president had made it all about America.  My reaction was, "What a succinct way to sum up more than a week of total media madness."  The truth of that is inescapable — in the run-up to the Fourth, the Mara Salvatrucha of the media had their machetes out, savagely hacking at Donald Trump's expressed wishes for a military presence in our nation's parade in our nation's capital, a gang of ink-stained pundits seeking to maim what they can't kill. As a combat veteran of a long-ago war, I was solidly aligned with the president on that — after all, who secured this independence we're celebrating but combat veterans?  Or, for that matter, who ensured the continuance of that freedom for more than two...(Read Full Post)