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NEW HAVEN (AP) -- The largest troop deployment from Connecticut is scheduled for this weekend as 500 Connecticut National Guardsmen head out. On Saturday, they will be bused to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where they will spend three to five weeks in training. From there, they will be deployed to help rebuild Afghanistan. The 500 soldiers and members of their families were given a send-off last night at Yale University's Payne-Whitney Gymnasium. The Connecticut National Guard says it's represents the largest deployment of Connecticut guardsmen since the start of the war on terrorism in 2001.

Ann Coulter just finished her speech at UConn, and she was Great! Completely shutout Uconn's liberals. The lefties showed up in significant numbers but the majority of the crowd was definitely for Ann. Of course the liberals went absolutely nuts during the speech but Ann Coulter just em down, every SINGLE time! And the majority of the conservatives would stand up and cheer everytime they started trying to act up. At midpoint through her speech some liberals got a hold of the PA system and played a song through the speakers, I couldn't tell what it was. It effectively shut...

<p>WASHINGTON - The Army, faced with a severe and growing shortage of recruits, began offering 15-month active-duty enlistments nationwide Thursday, the shortest tours ever.</p> <p>The typical enlistment lasts three or four years; the previous shortest enlistment was two years.</p> <p>Recruits in the new 15-month program could serve in 59 of the more than 150 jobs in the Army, including the combat infantry, and then serve two years in the Reserve or National Guard.</p>

Cugno Retires Amid Federal Investigation State National Guard Head Is Charged With Improper Relationship Published on 3/5/2005 Hartford— Maj. Gen. William A. Cugno, the head of the Connecticut National Guard, submitted his retirement Friday after the U.S. Department of Defense informed Gov. M. Jodi Rell it had substantiated allegations of an improper relationship between Cugno and a subordinate. Rell's office said no details were provided. She said the DOD confirmed three allegations against Cugno — that he improperly gave preferential treatment to a female subordinate, that he improperly engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate and that he used...

Recently I have been using Google alot as I add to this web log. Not for the sake of doing research, for I have already done the research and have based my opinions accordingly. Merely, some of the evidence I have presented in this blog is not exactly presented in mainstream media outlets and to clear any misconceptions, I would like to have it properly cited in advance. You would think that with the over abundance of information contained on the Internet this wouldn’t be a difficult task. However, seeing that the evidence I am searching for would present a...

The source for this infomation comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Insitute at SIPRI.org. You can see the source for that information hereYou can see that the U.S. arm sales were from 83-88, And even then they were miniscule when compared to the Soviet Union and France.

Reporters Without Borders is publishing the first worldwide press freedom index The first worldwide index of press freedom has some surprises for Western democracies. The United States ranks below Costa Rica and Italy scores lower than Benin. The five countries with least press freedom are North Korea, China, Burma, Turkmenistan and Bhutan. Surprises among Western democracies : US below Costa Rica and Italy below Benin Reporters Without Borders is publishing for the first time a worldwide index of countries according to their respect for press freedom. It also shows that such freedom is under threat everywhere, with the 20 bottom-ranked...

Sources: Sniper Still At Large RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 21, 2002 (CBS) Law enforcement officials believe the sniper who has terrorized the Washington D.C. area is still at large, CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports. Stewart said the officials "feel confident" that neither of two men being question in connection with the shootings is the sniper. The men in custody in connection with the seizure of a Plymouth van at a gas station in Richmond, Va., Monday are believed to have made a call to a phone number connected to the sniper case, but they are not thought to be the...

Does anyone have that picture of Michelle Malkin when she was on Foxnews and looks HOT! They are posting pictures of hot newswomen on Fark.com right now and i wanted to post a picture of her. I cant find that picture anywhere but i remember seeing it posted on Free Republic alot. I checked all the archives for Michelle Malkin in the search and i still couldnt find it.

For somebody as earnest, smart and church-mouse-quiet as Lori Price, she sure gets called some awful names. Every day, or just about, people she has never met send her notes to inform her that she is "moron." "Retarded" and "idiot," too. Not long ago, a fellow wrote to suggest that she "Get a [expletive] life you piece of [expletive]." What has Price done to earn so many enemies? She is an Internet activist who, in the space of a few months, has collected more than 15,000 signatures on an online petition (www. petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html). The petition, which she plans to send...

On-line chess banned from Internet cafes?Three months after promising to instantly outlaw all electronic games from the public domain in the wake of a heated public debate on widespread illegal gambling, the government tabled a bill to that effect in Parliament yesterday. The draft law, presented by the Economy and Finance Ministry, bans any form of “electric, electro-mechanical and electronic” game devices, including computers, from hotels, coffee shops, club premises and public areas in general. This will not apply to Internet cafes, which, however, will not be allowed to offer their clients computer games. The police will be responsible for...

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take if from you by force. Money is made possible only by the...