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American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
The emergence of the ...
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In the purposefully dark and clandestine world of anonymous or pseudonymous – my personal term of preference – blogging, there lives with the beating heart of each keyboardist the secret fear of discovery. The fear of being unmasked to an amazed world, standing naked in the ...
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This sort of thing could not happen elsewhere:
DA NANG, Vietnam – Only three days into office, South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh delivered an unconditional surrender to the North Vietnamese in the early hours of April 30, 1975. That same morning in the seas off the coast of South ...
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In military courts, a positive defense may be made that the commander had “undue influence” in the prosecution of an individual, his sentencing, or both. The point of the undue command influence argument is that the careers of military court members can be subject to the whims of a ...
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The world has stopped getting warmer , defying
the complex models that predicted anthropogenic global warming to
continue until it reached crisis proportions: Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average ...
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Somebody’s Got Some ‘Splaining To Do
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Rationed health care, when it comes, will not come all at once. It will creep in stealthily, measure by measure. At first few will object.
Because at first, a charismatic politician will tell us of blue pills that work better than red pills costing twice as much.
Then, a government ...
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When I was a midshipman, the Naval Academy had access to a fleet of four Varga Kachinas and I believe one of them may now be among the stable I fly on weekends, the thought of which gives me a moment’s pause. My junior year one of them crashed , with the loss of two lives. The training ...
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I would have thought that to be an oxymoron :
A crash between a nuclear-powered US submarine and a warship in the strategic Strait of Hormuz was an “avoidable” accident caused by complacent sailors and weak leadership, a Navy report said.
The crash between the USS Hartford and ...
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“Former” LSOs are like former Marines. ( Time index 00:25 )
Pretty darn rare.
Them as know, know.
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Major Nidal Hasan wasn’t just a homicidal loser, as it turns out: He was a damned poor officer and psychiatrist .
On May 17, 2007, Hasan’s supervisor at Walter Reed sent the memo to the Walter Reed credentials committee. It reads, “Memorandum for: Credentials Committee. ...
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AG Holder fails to do so.
NPR – shockingly – calls him on it .
GRAHAM: If we captured bin Laden tomorrow, would he be entitled to Miranda warnings at the moment of capture?
HOLDER: Again I’m not — that all depends. I mean, the notion that we –
GRAHAM: ...
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What happens when the government steps in to choose which struggling small businesses get to stay afloat?
You get stuck with the bill :
(Less) than six months into the (American Capital Recovery) loan program, default rates are approaching 60%. Why then, you might ask, did the House ...
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Always wanted a crack at a P-38 Lightning for you and the missus, but didn’t have the scratch to buy one of the two dozen or so remaining?
Build it yourself, two-thirds scale. Jim O’Hara did , at age 81. Bent the metal by hand.
An amazing achievement.
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I was heretofore unaware of the rash but daring attack by six UK Swordfish aircraft on a powerful German fleet transiting the English Channel in February, 1942. The First Sea Lord told Vice Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey that “The Navy will attack the enemy whenever and wherever he is to be ...
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From small to large, lethal to experimental, Wired has 15 pages of the aviation future, and it doesn’t include much in the way of jolly giants vaulting through the burning blue in green flight suits, g-suits around their legs and waist, harness and buckles clanking on their shoulders, ...
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Somali pirates fail to :
The Maersk Alabama, the American-flagged ship captured briefly by pirates in April, came under fire again early Tuesday morning off Somalia’s coast, but evaded the attackers.
Four men in a skiff sped within 300 yards of the container ship, firing automatic ...
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Each of you, your spouses, children and friends owe $38,974.34 to the national debt, before interest according to CBS .
It’s another record-high for the U.S. National Debt which today topped the $12-trillion mark. Divided evenly among the U.S. population, it amounts to $38,974.34 for ...
