Category Archives: Leadership

Dispatches from the U.S.S. DeKalb: February 9, 1918

Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

February 9, 1918 Got up 6.30 A.M. Mess at 7.00; read until 9.00. Turned to 9 A.M. Through at 12 N. Off until 7.30 A.M. Monday 11th 48 hour liberty.

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Posted in Blogging, Defense, Leadership, Policy, Politics, War, World War I | Tagged Dispatches from the U.S.S. DeKalb, First World War, U.S.S. DeKalb, US Navy, USS DeKalb, World War I, World War One | Leave a comment

Dispatches from the U.S.S. DeKalb: February 8, 1918

Posted on Monday, February 8, 2016 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

February 8, 1918 Reported aboard U.S.S. DeKalb this date. Assigned to duty as G.S.K. Went out with Myers on working party to take on stores. Slept aboard – Ch. Yeo. Farrand’s bunk. My stateroom being painted. Turned in 9.30 P.M. … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from the U.S.S. DeKalb: Introduction

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2016 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

This past holiday season, my father passed on my great grandfather’s journal, which chronicles his service on the U.S.S. DeKalb during the First World War. To help preserve my family’s legacy and to share history that, until now, has only been … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Predictions for 2013: Results

Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Three years ago, I started this blog with my top 10 predictions for 2011. I also polled readers on these same predictions. At the end of the year, my accuracy rate was 40%, while my readers were right 50% of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Central Asia, China, Defense, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, International Security, Investing, Leadership, Media, Middle East, Nuclear Power, Nuclear proliferation, Peak Oil, Policy, Politics, Predictions, Taxes, War | Tagged 2013 predictions, Ashton Carter, Barack Obama, Democrats, Iran, Kim Jong Un, North Korea, Oil, President Obama, Republicans, Secretary of Defense | Leave a comment

Syria: A Colossal Foreign Policy Blunder That Obama Can Still Avoid

Posted on Friday, August 30, 2013 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

It has been some time since this blog has addressed foreign policy, but the Obama administration is about to make a mistake so reckless, ill-conceived, and cataclysmically stupid that failing to speak out about it before it happens would be … Continue reading →

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Posted in Defense, Energy Security, Leadership, Middle East, Policy, Politics, Terrorism, War | Tagged al Qaeda, Assad, Britain, Congress, Hezbollah, Iran, NATO, President Obama, Syria, United Nations, War with Syria, WMD | 23 Comments

Top 10 Predictions for 2013

Posted on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Two years ago, I started this blog with my top 10 predictions for 2011. I also polled readers on these same predictions. At the end of the year, my accuracy rate was 40%, while my readers were right 50% of … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Predictions for 2012: Results

Posted on Monday, December 31, 2012 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

In 2011, I started this blog with my top 10 predictions for 2011. I also polled readers on these same predictions. At the end of that year, my accuracy rate was 40%, while my readers were right 50% of the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Central Asia, China, Defense, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, International Security, Investing, Leadership, Media, Middle East, Nuclear Power, Nuclear proliferation, Peak Oil, Policy, Politics, Predictions, Taxes, War | Tagged 2012 Predictions, Barack Obama, Decision 2012, Democrats, Iran, Iraq, Kim Jong Un, Mitt Romney, North Korea, Oil, Republicans | 8 Comments

The Joke Continues

Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2012 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

I’ve been meaning to send an update on the contest for the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts, where my good friend, Sean Bielat, is running against an empty suit representing the Kennedy clan. Below, I’ve posted two segments of a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Leadership, Policy, Politics | Tagged Joseph P. Kennedy III, Nepotism, Sean Bielat | 6 Comments

Niall Ferguson Is My Hero

Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Niall Ferguson’s recent Newsweek piece, which convincingly and dispassionately argues why the country ought not re-elect Barack Obama, has really irritated the liberal cognescenti. So much so, that progressive patron saint Paul Krugman took time from his summer vacation to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blogging, Business, Defense, Finance and Economics, International Security, Leadership, Media, Policy, Politics, Socialism | Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, Harvard University, LZ Granderson, Newsweek, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman | 24 Comments

Honoring Milton Friedman

Posted on Friday, August 3, 2012 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

July 31st would have been free market economist Milton Friedman’s one-hundredth birthday. I have posted the following videos in his honor. These videos not only include Friedman’s eloquent defense of free market principles, but also they illustrate the truism that … Continue reading →