Each day the number of convoys leaving Iraq is growing as the political requirement that we withdraw approaches. In one sense, we have no option, as withdrawal by the end of this year was agreed upon at the political level. However, leaving before...
A part of the Bill of Rights, the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified on 15 Dec 1791. It says, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” And on 5 Aug 1861, the US...
Who would ever believe it? Two Gitmo “alum” who were set loose by Obama and Company are back in the terrorist business, and 3 more are strongly suspected of the same–this according to the US Office of Natl Intelligence. Of the 532...
It was 5 years ago this month, on 27 June 05, that the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Castle Rock vs Gonzales that despite court orders or anything else, we do not have the constitutional right to be protected from crime by the police. In this case...
It was just two months ago that North Korea willfully and deliberately torpedoed a South Korean ship that was minding its own business; 46 sailors were killed; was there even one-tenth the outrage that is ringing out loudly around the world because...
One of the very smart things that is going on in Iraq just now is that Kurds and Iraqi are training together. This helps break down the generations of distrust. Indeed, on 27 May and a police training school conducted by NATO forces, the several...
Rep Buck McKeon, the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, hammered away at the administration’s national security policies the other day. “A reluctant wartime President, I fear, abstains from using words like victory and...
In Afhganistan’s Aghdis Province a Spanish government team provided aid to 20 families of terrorists who had decided to lay down their weapons and cooperate with the Afgan government. Provided to the families were supplies such as sheep, rice...
Let’s see. Virtually every (not all) people who have been involved in any way with a terrorist assault on a civilian aircraft have, to my knowledge, been male, of Arab background, Muslims, with “Muslim” names, traveling from...
I’ve heard that some of the Navy’s SEALs were arrested for bloodying the nose of a terrorist they were capturing. I truly that this is not true. I’ve talked to some chopper gunship pilots who have been in Iraq and Afghanistan...