Michael Walsh

Despite the abject failure of leadership at the top, the Navy and Marines still know how to fight and win. From the U.S. Naval Institute blog, here’s an eyewitness account of the takedown of some Somali pirates by Capt. Alexander

Amazingly, he did it all without a TelePrompter: [youtube x7OCgMPX2mE&feature nolink] Do you think they’re still listening?

Never heard of Mark Kellogg? Well, you should: he was the New York Herald reporter who perished with Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He deserves to be honored in the same breath with

My former Time colleague, Neil Leifer, took this iconographic image of Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965, in the immediate aftermath of the “phantom punch” that ended Liston’s reign as heavyweight champ and, effectively, his career: Liston

Writing in the New Criterion this month, Andrew McCarthy reviews Radical by Nicholas von Hoffman, a new book about the great devil of modern times, the Capone gang member, Marxist community organizer, agitator and social destabilizer — and Obama’s spiritual

Even the children: [youtube kG08B7OyFGc&feature nolink] Ha ha.

… can we blame this nut on Al Gore? [youtube 1iVUEuWDOo4 nolink] An excerpt from his manifesto: 1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael”

Calm, cool, collected, and just slightly irascible, Eric Sevareid was the uncle who cuffed your ear instead of giving you a nickel. That was because he’d earned his bona fides the hard way: as one of Edward R. Murrow’s boys,

In this, Chapter 29, Devlin uses advanced technology to track down and confront the Iranian terrorist who’s directing the Bombay-style assault on Manhattan. New York City Arash Kohanloo had spent a great deal of time in New York, especially for

This chapter from my new novel, Early Warning, was written well before the Times Square bomber made his abortive attempt to bring fiction to life. Remember: everything in it is not only possible but, on some level, probable. Times Square

[youtube lrI7dVj90zs nolink] Fondly remembered, lovingly written. Be sure to check it out: We were listening to the game on the radio. Nearly everyone was rooting for the Giants. But things looked beyond bleak when Thomson came to bat in

While researching my first novel, Exchange Alley, I spent several weeks at the National Archives, working with the JFK Assassination Records Collection material, which was then housed there. I went through the FBI reports, the CIA reports, the taped conversations

That’s us on the left, as seen by NASA’s deep-space Messenger:

Another of the former Tiffany network’s correspondents whose career was made by the Kennedy assassination — in the aftermath of the shooting, he gave Marguerite Oswald, Lee’s mother, a ride to the Dallas police station, where he pretended to be

Thanks to all of you, my new novel, Early Warning, is in stores now, as well as on Kindle. It’s the sequel to last year’s thriller, Hostile Intent, which went to No. 1 on Kindle upon its debut, sat high

Distantly related to Dr. Samuel Mudd, as in “your name is –,” he is the man who should have succeeded Walter Cronkite as the most trusted man in America at CBS instead of “Kenneth, what is the frequency?” Born in

08/19/2010 AP Advisory AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque Associated Press Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production Tom Kent sent the following note to the staff about covering the New York City mosque

The other half of the Huntley-Brinkley team, his impish grin and cheerful twinkle never belied the seriousness of the news he reported — although his liberal tendencies could never really be in doubt: Good night, Chet. Good night, David. The

Nearly forgotten today, he was half of the Huntley-Brinkley team on NBC, a partnership that lasted from 1956 until 1970. Calm and sober where Brinkley was wry and puckish, Huntley was the epitome of the authoritative newsroom professional, now pretty

Technically speaking, the Kennedy Center is not Congress, but the building — a monument to the first Roman Catholic president — is federally supported. Luckily, this story has a happy ending. But how many ordinary Americans have a microphone or

Gunga Dan himself, of “Kenneth, what is the frequency” fame. His eager, credulous acceptance of the faked Bush Texas Air National Guard memos brought an end to a career that began with the sheer luck of the Kennedy assassination and

Here’s everybody’s favorite Clinton-era apparatchik/hack masquerading as a “newsman,” George Stephanopoulos, starting the Obama drumbeat early and often. Let the shilling begin! Shame on Steffi, and worse shame on ABC for employing a political operative and trying — unsuccessfully, thankfully