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No injuries reported, according to Emily Chasan and Walker Simon for Reuters: A small explosion damaged a U.S. military recruiting station but caused no injuries in New York's Times Square...
Posted on March 6, 2008 3:48 PM
The progress since December 2006 in Iraq in terms of areas contested by al Qaeda, coalition soliders killed in action, Iraqi civilian deaths, and incidents of ethnic/sectarian violence, in handy...
Posted on January 19, 2008 6:18 AM
Very bad news from the tribal regions of Pakistan, as reported by Bill Roggio at The Long War Journal: The Taliban in South Waziristan have overrun a fort manned by...
Posted on January 17, 2008 5:01 AM
An American veteran returns from Iraq and, despite being unmarried and unemployed and Iraqi law prohibiting in, begins fighting to adopt an orphaned Iraqi boy he met on his combat...
Posted on December 24, 2007 1:47 AM
General John Batiste, until recently affiliated with VoteVets, an antiwar veterans' group, now believes the surge is necessary, and is working. He has joined Vets for Freedom, a group which...
Posted on December 8, 2007 3:46 PM
Iraq and the United States are currently negotiating the terms of troop reductions next year which could leave as few as 50,000 active-duty American military in the country by the...
Posted on November 28, 2007 1:55 AM
According to a watchdog group, the Chinese will be testing a space weapon during their moon launch this week, reports the Associated Press: A Chinese submarine will send test signals...
Posted on October 23, 2007 8:37 PM
After The New Republic published purported "Iraq diaries" by an active-duty deployed soldier, Scott Beauchamp, which swiftly proved implausible and unverifiable, they promised a swift investigation into the matter. Since...
Posted on October 11, 2007 2:10 AM
In the wake of the Israeli air strike near Dayr az-Zawr in Syria, the one thing most universally noted by observers was the silence from Israeli, American, and other Western...
Posted on September 26, 2007 2:27 PM
No, it's not a "B" horror flick from the '50s - it's what Democratic members of Congress are saying about their recent trip to Iraq, as reported by Jonathan Weisman...
Posted on August 31, 2007 1:16 PM
The only officer convicted of charges in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has received the minimum penalty from a military jury, a reprimand, reports David Dishneau for The Washington Times:...
Posted on August 30, 2007 3:25 AM
Angered about the ballistic missile defense system the US is building in Eastern Europe, Vladimir Putin promised to "do something." Oleg Shchedrov of Reuters reports: President Vladimir Putin on Friday...
Posted on April 27, 2007 1:19 PM
MilBlogger Paul Berkley (aka Legibletrout) was murdered on Sunday. He was home on leave from Navy Fifth Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain, when he and his 26-year-old wife Monique were shot...
Posted on December 22, 2005 2:08 AM
A recently got an e-mail asking me where I stand in the latest dispute between Kevin and Laurence Simon. Laurence is a bit miffed at Kevin, and is making no...
Posted on December 8, 2005 8:00 AM
Robert Novak, apparently taking a break from playing politics with the CIA, is reporting on a fight on Capitol Hill between the Marine Corps and the Navy. The Navywants to...
Posted on December 7, 2005 6:30 AM
James Taranto leads off yesterday's Best Of The Web with this e-mail from a captain in the U.S. Army. I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on...
Posted on November 30, 2005 10:40 AM
There's a lawmaker here in New Hampshire who wants to lower the drinking age to 18 to members of the armed forces. State Representative Jim Splaine (D-Portsmouth) is putting forth...
Posted on November 28, 2005 2:00 PM
Last night, I received an e-mail notifying me of a despicable thing going on. A dedicated milblogger in Iraq, Grey Eagle, has been posting tributes to US soldiers in Iraq....
Posted on November 20, 2005 7:00 AM
I'm proud of my abilities as a writer, but with that pride comes a sense of self-honesty. There are some things I do quite well, and some not so well....
Posted on October 31, 2005 2:00 PM
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Posted on October 25, 2005 6:04 PM
The despicably ville Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps finally met his match in a large group of military veterans armed with the collective roar of over 100 motorcycle engines.CHELSEA -...
Posted on October 12, 2005 11:34 PM
A lot of people (Paul's latest sparring partner included) have been slamming FEMA's performance in the wake of hurricane Katrina. It's true that a lot of people have suffered --...
Posted on September 12, 2005 11:00 AM
Latest in the news about the rescue operations in New Orleans is the dispatching of the hospital ship USNS Comfort. She's currently in Mayport, Florida, taking on supplies and additional...
Posted on September 7, 2005 9:00 PM
Last week, I wrote about seeing a World War II-vintage B-17 bomber flying into the Lawrence, MA airport. It turns out it was a fund-raising event for the Experimental Aircraft...
Posted on September 5, 2005 11:00 AM
If anyone else were to tell this story, I'd call BS on them. But it's all true, every single word of it. Yesterday morning, I noted the formal end of...
Posted on September 2, 2005 5:00 AM
Today marks the 60 anniversary of the formal surrender of the Japanese, when the representatives of Emperor Hirohito signed the unconditional surrender on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri....
Posted on September 1, 2005 5:00 AM
USMC Capt. Patrick Klokow was killed by a hit and run driver in San Diego last week, not far from where our family was staying. The story grabbed my attention...
Posted on August 30, 2005 12:37 AM
Looks like the media is slant the facts of yet another story into a jab at the Bush administration. Troops' Gravestones Have Pentagon Slogans ARLINGTON, Va. - Unlike earlier wars,...
Posted on August 23, 2005 3:43 PM
This will have the political left buzzing. WASHINGTON - The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq -- well over 100,000 --...
Posted on August 21, 2005 12:06 PM
Now that the initial buzz over the story of Marine Sergeant Daniel Cotnoir's firing a ahotgun has abated, more details are emerging. And my earlier piece's "oops" appears to have...
Posted on August 16, 2005 9:00 AM
During all the stir about the Cindy Sheehan story, I started wondering: is there a historical precedent for this? I recall stories of letters from Abraham Lincoln to mothers who...
Posted on August 14, 2005 5:00 AM
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He died in a auto accident late last night. If not for Kiel's arrest for shipping cough medicine two years ago, I would most likely not even remember him. RIP....
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It's a tragedy that still eerily lingers within the entertainment industry. And six months after his tragic death, Heath Ledger's parents are getting ready to celebrate his role in "The...
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There are no plans for a rumoured big-screen version of Friends, film studio Warner Bros has told the BBC. Since the success of the Sex and the City movie,...
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She defeated her sister Serena for her seventh career grand slam title. WIMBLEDON, England - Venus Williams beat sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and...
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Government's role regulating free speech needs to be as limited as possible. The freedom allowed under the 1st Amendment isn't always attractive, yet to limit free expression is always the worst possible option.
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Certainly all right thinking persons regret the death of anyone. And best wishes to anyone in the Helms family need to be extended at this sorrowful time for them. However as a lawmaker, Helms was one of the very worst...
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Christopher Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, underwent waterboarding to experience it for himself firsthand. What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the...
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Police say a South Florida woman stole a couple's cat to get them to return her dog. Linda Urioste's black Labrador was recently picked up by animal control officers...
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Here come the moving vans. After 41 years in Seattle, the Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City. The City of Seattle settled its Key Arena lease dispute with the Sonics...
11:36 AM | 3 comments
Peter Cook testified that he and Brinkley used pornography "to get the mood going." He also acknowledged spending about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites in 2005. Alexa...
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