The first refuge of weak leaders is blaming mistakes on subordinates. It’s unacceptable in the military, in corporate hierarchies, and in other settings where the responsibilities and authorities of leadership are understood and practiced. Harry Truman enshrined the concept with the famous maxim, “The buck stops here.” The principle is that a leader is responsible for everything his or her organization does or fails to do. When a U.S. Navy ship runs aground, the captain of the ship isn’t going to point to a junior officer who was serving as OOD (officer of the deck) and... 

With the recent success of Twilight and various other vampire movies and books, the legend of Dracula has found a new generation of vampire fans. But few people know the history behind the original Dracula. In reality, Dracula lived during the medieval times and is still considered a patriot who protected his country from foreign invaders. The Dracula legend is based on the tyranny of Vlad the third, also known as: Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Dracula, and Vlad Tepes. Vlad was born in the winter of 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara and raised in Targoviste, the capital of Wallachia-a region... 

Women Against Shariah has posted this very interesting story about a feud stoked to flames in a Toronto apartment building- all because one man , Matthew Coutts, had the audacity to greet a Muslim wife with a friendly “good morning”. Matt describes himself as hugely friendly man, one who runs errans for unfamiliar neighbors in the pouring rain and strikes up storms of conversations in the laundry room. Your typical, outgoing, well-meaning neighbor. But when he greeted the wife of the new Muslim couple across the hall, they confronted Matt and demanded that he not speak to the wife nor... 

***WARNING: Contains Some Spoilers*** I must admit I’ve spent the last month looking forward to Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” with the enthusiasm of a 12 year-old girl following the next “Twilight” movie- or that of a 19 year-old girl; disturbingly, there’s not much difference. From what commercials I’d seen, I walked into the theater expecting 2 hours of Brad Pitt killing the uncensored and glorious crap out of Nazi after Nazi. Which would have left me more than satisfied. Sad to say, by the end, there hadn’t been nearly as much... 

Colonel Timothy Reese recently wrote a devastating memorandum, quoted in full at ForeignPolicy.com, regarding actual conditions in Iraq from a realistic military perspective. COL Reese should know — he’s the chief of the Baghdad Operations Command Advisory Team, Multinational Division-Baghdad, Iraq. Michael Gordon reported on the memo in The New York Times, providing a link to the full text. According to Gordon, “Before deploying to Iraq, Colonel Reese served as the director of the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the Army’s premier intellectual center.... 

Prior to 9/11 2nd August 1990 Iraq shocked the world by actually invading Kuwait city after threatening Kuwait since January 1990 where as some troops had entered Kuwait territory. This being related to an argument over the $14 billion that Iraq borrowed from Kuwait to finance the Iraq Iran war, Iraq had argued that the war had prevented the rise of Persian influence in the Arab World, thus protecting Kuwait asking that the loan be made none and void. The talks broke down, then Iraq had tried repaying its debts by raising the prices of oil through OPECs oil production cuts. Kuwait then prevented... 

Medinat Yisrael a Jewish problem – part one The Roman’s are the ones that caused many of the problems we are seeing to day, the built a very powerful empire their method of training a well disciplined army and inventing new battle ground tactics made them one of the powerful nations the world had ever seen. Their actions caused the problem of both Jews and Palestinians laying claim for the same land. 1. Whilst the Romans ruled Israel many Jews fled and made new homes in Europe, due to the harshness of Roman rule. 2. When the Roman Empire converted to Christianity they changed the aspects of...