Some thoughts on the Air Force’s mobility fleet…. These observations are my own and do not represent official military policy. Tonight, in Air Force jets over a black Atlantic, bleary-eyed aviators will sip coffee and monitor instruments on the first leg of an airlift run to Afghanistan or Iraq. They’ll maneuver their C-17s or C-5s…

The Campaign for the American Reader is a great initiative to encourage more people to read more books. The program includes a number of blogs and columns. One of them is called “My Book, The Movie,” in which authors imagine the film version of their works. Writer and producer Marshal Zeringue invited me to offer…