Author Archives: Henry F. Cooper

December 25, 2020—Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2020—Merry Christmas!

This spirit of love, as simple as a spoken greeting and as profound as a changed heart, seems so full that it ceaselessly looks for ways to express its power. We respond to it best when we share it with family, friend or strangers — when we recognize that, under the sheltering evergreen branches of God’s love, all are family and no one is a stranger. When we do these things, when we visit the lonely or help those in need, when a family is reconciled, Christmas is real and present, and that is truly what makes it ‘the most wonderful time of the year.’” ~Ronald Reagan Read Full Story

December 08, 2020—Lake Wylie Pilot Study Video

December 08, 2020—Lake Wylie Pilot Study Video

“It is way past time to stop admiring this problem, and actually begin to do something concrete to protect our vulnerable electrical grid, control systems, and the ever-increasing array of electronic devices our society has become dependent upon.” ~ Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Click… Read Full Story

December 1, 2020—Global Defense: First from the Sea, then from Space!

December 1, 2020—Global Defense: First from the Sea, then from Space!

On November 17, 2020, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted a potentially very consequential test of the Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability — hopefully indicating a major step toward realizing this vision of the George H.W. Bush administration and 1995 Heritage Foundation’s Team B. Read Full Story

November 3, 2020—Blue Moon and a Time for Choosing

November 3, 2020—Blue Moon and a Time for Choosing

For the first time in 76 years, a second October world-wide full moon occurred on Halloween — All Hallows Eve; this time essentially on the eve of today’s national election. That 1944 “Blue Moon” (the second such full moon in a single month) occurred in the year that included D-Day (June 6, 1944), before Donald Trump was born, while Joe Biden was an infant and our “greatest generation” was winning World War II. Read Full Story

October 27, 2020—Whither North Korea?

October 27, 2020—Whither North Korea?

North Korea continues to produce nuclear material and, between May 2019 and late March 2020, conducted multiple short-range ballistic missile tests in violation of United Nations Security Council prohibitions. And Kim Jong Un rolled out a new major intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM) during an October 10, 2020 nighttime parade in Pyongyang. Read Full Story

October 20, 2020—Soldier Down: General Shy Meyer, Rest in Peace

October 20, 2020—Soldier Down: General Shy Meyer, Rest in Peace

Retired Army General Edward C. Meyer, former Army Chief of Staff (1979-83), died last week in Arlington, Virginia at the age of 91. I understand his prep-school colleagues called him “Shy,” a nickname that stuck; but he was anything but shy. Read Full Story