John Noonan grew up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. He attended Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia, where he was selected to the All-Conference Team for swimming and lettered in baseball. In 1999, John matriculated to the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the Class of 2003. While at VMI, John majored in History and International Studies and served as the managing editor of VMI's student newspaper, THE CADET. He studied counter-terrorism at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel and commissioned out of VMI's Air Force ROTC program. John has been published in The Washington Post, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and National Review, and was a contributor to the Encylopedia of World War I and World War II. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnNoonan http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnNoonan TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:27:17 GMT Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:27:17 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ There's a common phrase used throughout the US military, BLUF. Bottom line, up front. While I'm not a fan of the service's irritating habit of attaching an acronym to everything, I do like how BLUF cuts through... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnNoonan/2007/04/02/public_relations,_tehran_style c4e21bcb-df77-4f55-9622-9f1e40a6faa7 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:27:17 GMT Sometimes I read liberal blogs. Not for education, of course. I suppose I read them as some sort of perverse method of reinforcing my convictions on the war. Ronald Reagan used to say "it's not that liberals are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnNoonan/2007/03/08/they_know_so_much_that_isnt_so 0b841c71-bccf-4f02-83e7-3914a7a70348 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:02:57 GMT