The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow

I hold no religious faith. I haven’t since I first attained a level of mature rationality. I don’t begrudge people their choice to embrace faith, unless they insist (as many do) that theirs is the “one, true faith” and try…

One sure sign of a would-be tyrant is they create a problem out of whole cloth, offer a solution to this problem ostensibly for the benefit of those under their control, and insist it is being done to protect them.…

A recent news story reported that President Trump authorized a statue of Christopher Columbus, reconstructed from pieces destroyed by protesters, to be placed on the White House lawn. This is the latest effort to whitewash the reality of Columbus and…

Since 1945, the United States has sent ground troops into kinetic combat situations in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The last time Congress declared war was in 1941 against Germany, Japan, and Italy (Axis powers.) Are we on…

By engaging in basic research into the history of U.S. interventionist strategies in Iran and elsewhere, one can develop a fairly realistic, high-potential scenario of the likely results of our latest intervention. One doesn’t have to sit in the Cabinet…

I wrote this piece back in 2017 during the first Trump term. Since then, Eisenhower’s words have become even more prescient. We need to seriously consider just how close to fruition these warnings from a man who understood the nature…

After I retired from the police department and finished my professional career in other areas, I went to work for Southwest Airlines. The philosophy, daily practice, and purpose of the airline was to make flying fun (and safe) for the…

The United States and Israel are winning a war they know how to fight—and drifting into one they don’t. Jets fly unchallenged, targets burn, and officials speak confidently about degraded capabilities. Yet beneath the spectacle of military success lies a…

Would it be too much to ask that we have a President who can write at a minimum of third grade level when corresponding with heads of other nations? This is a “letter” transmitted through diplomatic channels to the Prime…

Some people treat falling as evidence of an underlying, worrisome, medical condition. I have refined it to an art form. Those of us who have crossed the threshold of a certain age are now asked, as a part of one’s…