Connecting veterans to help turn the tide on suicides

November 14, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King and Frank Larkin, COO of the Troops First Foundation discuss what is causing the rise in military veteran suicides and the National Warrior Call Day on Nov. 13, an initiative to get veterans connected and steering them to services — and to hope.

Rare Earths Are a Crisis of Government Neglect

Llewellyn King

An old adage says “a stitch in time saves nine.” Indeed. But it is a lesson seldom learned by governments. As you struggle through TSA screening at the airport, just consider this: It didn’t have to be this way. If the government had acted after the first wave of airplane hijackings in the early 1960s, we […]

Hello, World! America Doesn’t Have Your Back Anymore

Llewellyn King

America has your back. That has been the message of U.S. foreign policy to the world’s vulnerable since the end of World War II. That sense that America is behind you was a message for Europe against the threat of the Soviet Union and has been the implicit message for all threatened by authoritarian expansionism. […]

Oh, Congress! How Have You Become So Pusillanimous?

Llewellyn King

October 1989 found me in a small hotel, the Londonderry Arms, on the Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland. It was during “The Troubles” and evidence of the sectarian strife was everywhere, even along that beautiful shoreline, complete as it is with the Giant’s Causeway, one of Northern Ireland’s big tourist attractions. My wife, Linda Gasparello, […]

Memories of a Great Senator, When the Senate Was Great

Llewellyn King

Anyone wondering about a career as a U.S. senator might want to study the life and times of Sen. J. Bennett Johnston (D-La.), who died March 25 at the age of 92. To me, he embodied the best of the Senate that was. Johnston was both a patriotic American and a loyalist to the state […]