The 2011 Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic (SUBLANT) Senior and Junior Sailors of the Year were announced today. The winners were recognized by Vice Adm. John Richardson, Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic, during a luncheon held at the Vista Point Center at the Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. 

Washington, DC – It’s an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Obama delivered on the evening of January 24 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol came in at just over one hour and six minutes. It was full of rhetoric we should expect to hear reiterated from now until November 6. The president’s supporters declared his economic message to be “populist.” That’s liberal-speak for class warfare.

Washington, DC – On December 31, just hours before a New Year’s Eve celebration, Mr. Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012. Section 1245 of the law contains language providing authority to impose economic sanctions on Iran in order to deter the ayatollahs from acquiring nuclear weapons. White House efforts to have the sanctions provision stripped from the bill failed, and the measure became law with a quiet flourish of the presidential pen. Ever since, Washington and Tehran have been waging a war of words. None of this works to the advantage of the American people. Here’s why.

This summer Freedom Alliance started making regular trips to the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center located in Bethesda, Maryland, to visit with injured service members and hand deliver checks to grant recipients who are currently recuperating there.