D.B. Grady

D.B. Grady is the coauthor of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. He can be found online at dbgrady.com. More

D.B. Grady is the pseudonym of author David Brown. He is coauthor of The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army (Wiley, 2012) and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry (Wiley, 2013). He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, and a veteran of Afghanistan. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Arizona Court Not Buying DOJ's Argument Against the Immigration Law

Arizona Court Not Buying DOJ's Argument Against the Immigration Law

The law is popular with 51 percent of Americans, while the effort to bat it down is supported by only 35 percent More »

Why Chad Refuses to Arrest the Architect of the Darfur Genocide

Why Chad Refuses to Arrest the Architect of the Darfur Genocide

African groups claim that the International Criminal Court selectively targets African officials for prosecution More »

Gingrich Denounces Ground Zero Mosque

Gingrich Denounces Ground Zero Mosque

His religious intolerance is worthy of Al Qaeda More »

Clinton Calls Out Burma

Clinton Calls Out Burma

The secretary of state is skeptical of the Burmese junta's commitment to holding elections to replace its leader More »

Somalia's Spreading Cancer

Somalia's Spreading Cancer

Is the war-torn country the next Afghanistan? More »

The Company He Keeps

The Company He Keeps

Obama's sixth-quarter approval ratings rank on the bottom half of chief executives to date More »

One Giant Creep for Mankind

One Giant Creep for Mankind

How fickle and inefficient governing is running NASA into the ground More »

Give Petraeus 5 Stars

Give Petraeus 5 Stars

President Obama should signal his confidence in the war in Afghanistan by promoting David Petraeus to General of the Army, a rank unoccupied since 1950 More »

Killing the Horse Midstream

"D-boys could be comically arrogant. When they'd gotten a list of potential target sites, for instance, the D-boys had divvied them up among different teams. Each was assigned to draw up an assault plan. Since his men were involved, [75th Ranger Regiment Captain Mike] Steele had sat in on the meeting when the various schemes were presented. The captain's experience with such a planning session was like this: You sat there and took notes and asked questions only to… More »

Michael Yon's War

It began with a bridge. On the morning of March 1, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated on Tarnak River Bridge near Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing multiple civilians and one American soldier. While the destruction of a single bridge might ordinarily pose a mere inconvenience to the U.S. war machine, in the oppressive terrain of Afghanistan it became a logistical chokepoint, halting ground-based operations for days.War correspondent Michael Yon… More »

It's Romney by a Hair

It's Romney by a Hair

Romney edges Ron Paul by a single vote in the Southern Republican Leadership Conference straw poll More »

Steele, Stoic at SRLC

Steele, Stoic at SRLC

The embattled chairman is soft spoken at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference More »

Santorum Confronted

Santorum Confronted

The social crusader draws the first jeers of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference More »

Palin Prods, Pokes POTUS

Palin Prods, Pokes POTUS

If Newt was nuance, Palin is blunt force trauma More »

Eye of the Newt

Eye of the Newt

Gingrich takes the stage in New Orleans, calls for Republicans to de-fund Obama's programs More »

The Daughter of Darth

The Daughter of Darth

Liz Cheney riles up the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Plus: J.C. Watts lives! More »

The Elephants Gather

Optimistic Republicans converge on New Orleans for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference More »

Don't Believe The Naysayers: The Military Is Ready For Gays

Don't Believe The Naysayers: The Military Is Ready For Gays

A special ops veteran of Afghanistan explains why the military's new policy can succeed. More »

Why Heads Should Roll

Why Heads Should Roll

An alternate view on the White House security review More »

Security Theater Hurts The Troops

Security Theater Hurts The Troops

Thanks in large part to the hapless, ineffective, counterproductive, and embarrassing work of the Transportation Security Agency, Americans have grown accustomed to "security theater." The National Threat Advisory scheme at Homeland Security is equally nebulous, if not outright bewildering. Blue alerts? Yellow alerts? Orange alerts? Is there a difference, and which is the bad one? When does one duct tape his or her windows and parcel the cyanide tablets? There is… More »

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