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Makes you wonder doesn't it? Have you wondered why Barack Hussein Obama has insisted that the U.S. Attorney General hold the trials for the 911 Murdering Muslims Terrorists in Civilian Courts as Common Criminals instead of as Terrorists who attacked the United States of America? If the Muslim Terrorists are tried in Military Tribunals, convicted, and sentenced to DEATH by the Military Tribunal, BY LAW of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, as President of the United States, would be required to SIGN their Death Warrants before they could be EXECUTED. He would not be required to sign the death...

Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 21, 2009 Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 3326 On December 19, 2009, the President signed into law: H.R. 3326, the “Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010,” which provides FY 2010 appropriations for Department of Defense (DOD) military programs including funding for Overseas Contingency Operations, and extends various expiring authorities and other non-defense FY 2010 appropriations.

I was watching a debate this morning on CNN while at a doctor's appointment and it got me to thinking...which U.S. President really can take credit for ending the cold war? The panel was originally discussing the Reagan Revolution in comparison to the Obama Revolution with everything Obama has "accomplished" in 1 year versus what it took Reagan 8 years to do and that Obama has a more "impressive" list of accomplishments in his first year in comparison. Then one person said "Reagan won the cold war, Obama will never win the war on terror," to which the debate shifted...

The "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from Auschwitz in southern Poland has been found in the north and five men are being questioned by police. The five suspects, aged in their 20s and 30s, were not members of a neo-Nazi group, Krakow police said. The metal sign from the main gate, which symbolises for many the atrocities of Nazi Germany, had been cut into three pieces, they added. A major search was launched after the sign was stolen before dawn on Friday. Andrzej Rokita, the local police chief in Krakow - where the men were being questioned - said the...

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF LIMITED OBJECTIVES Throughout the Old Testament, God commands Israel to destroy its enemies that the nation might survive. Somewhere along the way, both Israel and America lost sight of that imperative. Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed to divide Europe when WWII ended. General George Patton, driving hard for Berlin, was ordered to stop short at the Elbe. The seeds of limited objectives were sown, Communism enslaved all of Eastern Europe, and millions died or were sent to the gulag. The policy gelled in Korea. President Truman ordered Douglas MacArthur, pursuing the retreating Communists northward, back to...

Exactly what is NATO doing in Afghanistan? And exactly what are the NATO countries doing in Iraq?

The uniform of the British Army is to be changed for the first time in almost 40 years. The new Multi-Terrain Pattern (MTP) will replace the traditional four colour woodland uniform known as No.8: Disruptive Pattern Material (DPM). Forces in Afghanistan will start to get the new uniforms in March next year, with the whole army upgraded by 2011. MTP is designed for a wide range of environments, including the volatile "green zone" of Helmand province. British troops in Afghanistan currently use a mix of desert camouflage and temperate DPM, depending on which area they are operating in. There are...

For the first time, three Al-Qaeda operatives have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking as a means of raising funds to support their terrorist activities. The international terror group has increasingly been turning to this form of activity, although its spread to Africa is a new twist in the pattern, according to evidence gathered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The agency has long been concerned about the group’s ties to the heroin trade in Afghanistan – but according to DEA director Michele Leonhart, the current case reveals a “direct link” between the terror group and drug traffickers...

WHITINGHAM -- When history buff James Dassatti was asked to do a presentation for a U.S. history class at the Twin Valley Middle School, he wanted to pull out all the stops. As a Revolutionary and Civil War re-enactor and executive director of the Living History Association, Dassatti owns elaborate, historically accurate costumes that he wears for such occasions. One of his goals is to help people imagine what fighting in a war must have been like, and his presentation isn’t really complete without allowing the audience to see live replicas of old firearms, he said. So he was disappointed...

Southerners flee postwar woes to build lives in Brazil Plagued with economic ruin, psychological terror and personal tragedy at the end of the Civil War,many Southerners began to dis-cuss packing up their war-torn lives and emigrating to foreign lands as an antidote for their suffering. Southern diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut wrote about Confederate officers going to Mexico and Brazil,and Scarlett O'Hara twice considered the idea of fleeing to Latin America in the epic novel "Gone With the Wind." One Southern girl confided in her diary:"The men are all talking about going to Mexico and Brazil." Another addressed the same theme:...

Nearly 30 years ago, a Lockheed Constellation flew to its current location at a Helena college. If all goes as planned, the 1958 plane will do the same to its new home at an Oregon museum next year. After mechanics restore the plane, it will be flown to Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Ore., where it will be on display alongside the famed Spruce Goose, the wood-resin plane billionaire Howard Hughes developed for use in World War II but which never lifted off past its initial prototype. “What an awesome looking machine,” University of Montana-Helena College of Technology...

ur boy John Noonan has a good post over at the Weekly Standard that dis­sects the threat from the reported Iranian mis­sile test yes­ter­day. First, the Sajjil-​​2 is a solid fuel rocket. That’s the type of power source that we use in our own Minuteman III rock­ets, as solid fuel is sta­ble in flight and requires no prepa­ra­tion time ahead of a launch. Liquid fuel, which pow­ers the Iranian Shahab-​​3 fleet, is highly cor­ro­sive and sloshes around in a rocket’s down­stage, desta­bi­liz­ing flight and degrad­ing accu­racy. It’s so toxic that the fuel eats away at a missile’s inter­nal tanks, and...

It was a night to remember fallen heroes and outstanding servicemen and women from the Armed Forces. But while most of the VIPs opted for demure black outfits for the do, Geri Halliwell was clearly not in the mood for playing it safe. Instead, the former Spice Girl spiced up the red carpet in a form-fitting fuchsia Herve Leger Body-con Bandage Dress last night.

Bob Hope's last Christmas Tour 1972 In 1996, the U.S. Congress honored Bob Hope by declaring him the "first and only honorary veteran of the U.S. armed forces." Bob Hope appeared in or hosted 199 known USO shows.

We can't say we've ever heard of a $26 Russian program called SkyGrabber before, but it's about to get famous real fast -- according to the Wall Street Journal, Iraqi insurgents have been regularly using the satellite-snooping software to monitor live Predator video feeds. Apparently the Predator transmits video over an unencrypted link, so there's no major hacking or security breach going on here, but it's obviously a huge issue -- and we'd say the bigger problem is that Pentagon officials have known about this flaw since the 1990s, but they didn't think insurgents would figure out how to exploit...

For several years, Jude Stringfellow and her Lab-chow mix have toured the country with a simple message: Faith walks. Born without front legs to a junkyard dog around Christmas 2002, Faith the puppy was rejected and abused by her mother. She was rescued by Reuben Stringfellow, now an Army E-4 specialist, who had been asked to bury other puppies in the litter. "Can we fix her? Stringfellow, then 17, asked his mom. "No, but maybe we can help her," she said.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama arrives with a sack of toys as she visits the Marine Corps Base Quantico Toys for Tots Campaign warehouse in Stafford, Virginia, December 16, 2009. In support of the program, Mrs. Obama delivered new and unwrapped toys and gifts contributed by the Executive Office staff.

The show is only half over tonight so there's still hope this will turn around. So far, a poor innocent Muslim (US Military Solider) was killed in cold blood, the reason will of course be because he was muslim. When Ducky gave his diversity speech about "perhaps we should spend more time seeing what we have in common rather than killing each other" I nearly puked. Let's look at reality, a muslim walked in and opened up on his fellow soldiers. They are doing all the cold blooded killing, not us. I think Navy NCIS is off my list. Let's...

YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — Jeff and Patty Guerrero held their son close as a sense of joy — and relief — washed over them. “We endured a long, lengthy adoption process, and it took two years for my son to pass the naturalization process,” Jeff said minutes before 3-year-old Ethan, who was adopted from Japan, was sworn in as a U.S. citizen Tuesday at Yongsan Theater. It may have been a long journey for the Ethan and the 54 other immigrants who became Americans during the naturalization ceremony, but it was one they were all happy to take. “This...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The United Service Organizations is brightening the holidays for 16 lucky servicemembers. The USO has awarded those Europe-based and deployed servicemembers roundtrip tickets to the States. The “Home for the Holidays Sweepstakes” was sponsored by the USO Europe, United Airlines and SATO Travel. A total of $17,000 was donated for the contest, said Jake Jacobs, coordinator for USO Europe. Winners were selected from more than 200 servicemembers who e-mailed their rank, unit, location and a short explanation of why they want to go home free for the holidays. The contest was open to single enlisted servicemembers who...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Overseas military customers ordering gifts online from certain retailers might get an unpleasant surprise when shipping and handling fees are tacked on at the end of the purchase. Those same customers might be most surprised to find that retail giant Walmart had the biggest markup. On a $120 purchase, Walmart.com charged $10.35 to ship to an APO address, compared with $2.10 to a stateside address. For most items, Amazon.com charged the same to ship to an APO address as a stateside address. And Target offered shipping on a $120 purchase to an APO address for less than...

When thinking about the mass extermination camps of a holocaust think.. The key to freedom is to be able to have the ability to defend yourself &, if you dont have the tools to do that, then youre...

Wanted to share this from Military.com http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=207522&page=1

A piece of Don Sunstrom's past has been missing for 40 years. While fighting in Vietnam, he'd gotten a fancy engraved cigarette lighter as a keepsake to remind him of a place he later would try to forget. But he lost the lighter in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Two months ago, Sunstrom, 65, who now lives in Blaine, was stunned to learn that the Zippo lighter had been found -- at the bottom of a lake in southern Wisconsin. Scott Mitchen, a professional treasure hunter and author, found the lighter during a dive in Delavan Lake and plans to...

"We were tricked in 2008!"

Unexploded mines are still a serious problem throughout the world. Moreover, the clearance is very dangerous and costly. But Bart Weegens, from Belgium found a solution – a trained opossum. On the taming of the animal takes about a year. Using the operating time of Pavlov, the rats develop a stable relationship smell of explosives and rewards – of bananas and peanuts.

The Army has begun fielding 500,000 of a projected 7 million new 5.56mm 30-round Improved Magazines for the service’s fleet of M16 and M4 weapons that PEO Soldier says will deliver “a significant increase in reliability for the battle-tested M16 and M4 weapons systems…the Improved Magazine effectively reduces the risk of magazine-related stoppages by more than 50 percent compared to the older magazine variants." LTC Chris Lehner, Product Manager Individual Weapons explains on the PEO Web site that the system has a heavier, more corrosion resistant spring, and “along with a new follower design that does not tilt inside the...

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HE LIVED ALL ALONE, IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE. I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE, AND TO SEE JUST WHO IN THIS HOME DID LIVE. I LOOKED ALL ABOUT, A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE, NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS, NOT EVEN A TREE. NO STOCKING BY MANTLE, JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND, ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES OF FAR DISTANT LANDS. WITH MEDALS AND BADGES, AWARDS OF ALL KINDS, A SOBER THOUGHT CAME THROUGH MY MIND. FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT, IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,...

BANGOR, Maine — Stephen and Tabitha King had no problem donating money to ensure that the 150 members of Bravo Company of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Unit could come home for the holidays. They did have a slight problem with the requested amount, though. “Steve is such a numbers person,” said Julie Eugley, one of the author’s personal assistants. “When we were approached for $13,000, he thought that number was a little unlucky. He didn’t want any bad whammies associated with these troops.” So instead the Kings donated $12,999 and Eugley chipped in the $1 to complete the request....

Not an article, just a slide show ("AUTHOR" really a photog). Dogs who are trained by Afghans (no, not the dog) for Afghanistan!

Obama Says Having A “Triumphant Sense” About War Was A Mistake… Is He Rewriting History? President Barack Obama says he'll know by the end of 2010 if his Afghan strategy is working. Obama tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that he will change direction if the US military is not on course "in terms of securing population centers" from Taliban militants. Asked by CBS’s Steve Kroft why he was even setting a deadline, Obama said that otherwise “the message we are sending to the Afghans is, ‘It's business as usual. This is an open-ended commitment.’ When Kroft suggested that Obama seemed to...

The South Korean Army has received its first (of about a thousand) production model K-21 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). The 26 ton vehicle is similar to the 33 ton U.S. M-2. The K-21 has a crew of three and carries nine infantry in the back. The two man turret carries a 40mm autocannon, with 200 rounds, as well as two ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) launchers and a coaxial (with the 40mm) 7.62mm machine-gun. Top speed is 70 kilometers an hour. The big difference between the K-21 and M-2 is weight, and that is mainly because the chassis of the K-21...

China is working on a new tank design, one that will replace their current M-1 killer, the Type 99A2. According to the director of the China North Vehicle Research Institute, their next generation tank will be smaller and lighter than the 60 ton Type 99A2. The new tank will have a crew of two and rely on missiles as its main weapon. The new tank will have many more sensors and an active defense (small missiles taking out incoming anti-tank missiles). The sensors will enable the two man crew to see what is all around them, and be connected electronically...

Two years ago, the U.S. Air Force asked the manufacturer of the AIM-7X Sidewinder air-to-air missile if the weapon could be adapted to hit ground targets (including armored vehicles and speedboats). The manufacturer got to work and, recently, conducted several successful of the modified AIM-7X. The mods apparently were mainly in the fire control software, and the details are being kept secret. The AIM-7 is a heat seeking missile, and the heat sensors have become much more sensitive since the first AIM-7 entered service half a century ago. The current versions of the missile work by detecting a heat source...

We must have a revolution in order to prevent us from going hardcore Socialist first stop , Communist second stop . Very interesting analysis by The Rev.

BANGOR, Maine — Author Stephen King and his wife are donating money so 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard can come home for the holidays. King and his wife, Tabitha, who live in Bangor, are paying $13,000 toward the cost of two bus trips so that members of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Unit can travel from Camp Atterbury in Indiana to Maine for Christmas. The soldiers left Maine last week for training at Camp Atterbury. They are scheduled to depart for Afghanistan in January -snip-

Farid Hotaki and his family fled their Afghanistan home during the early 1980s Soviet invasion. Early this year, as a U.S. Marine conducting an escort of Afghan National Police officials, he and a fellow Marine were ambushed with enemy fire as they patrolled a hillside. During the fight, he guided a sergeant down to safety and recovered a key piece of intelligence, potentially saving countless lives. This is the final part of his story.

Courage under fire - Afghanistan-born Marine risks all during combat operations in Helmand Providence Farid Hotaki and his family fled their Afghanistan home during the early 1980’s Soviet invasion. Early this year, as a U.S. Marine conducting an escort of Afghan National Police officials, he found himself pinned down by ruthless enemy fire in a desolate valley in the Afghanistan countryside. This is part two of his story.

In 1980, Farid Hotaki and his family fled their Kandahar City home to seek refuge in Pakistan to escape a mounting war with a fierce Soviet force. Nearly 30 years later as a Marine, he found himself back on native soil in the midst of another war. This time, he wasn’t fleeing.

The family of a British soldier has learned 65 years after his death in World War II that he sacrificed himself to save 20 French children. The town of Annezin, France, plans to name a road after Robert Key, the Coventry Telegraph reported. While a British investigation ruled Key died showing off with a grenade, relatives now know he had always been regarded as a hero in Annezin.

I was just watching the end of the Army/Navy game. Sort of half paying attention but I could have sworn I heard one of the annoucers say this. He was talking about one of the players at the Naval Acadamey. He said that one of the players on the Navy team was so happy to be at the naval acadamey because he had never been to the dentist and the Navy was a great way to get healthcare in this country. The comment was made within the last couple mins of the game. Did I just imagine that or did...

December 12, 2009 The Just-War Tradition Obama’s Oslo speech presumes too much about a centuries-old intellectual tradition. By George Weigel In November, the president of the United States ordered a surge of U.S. forces into Afghanistan and called on other countries to do their duty in bringing that war to a successful conclusion. A few weeks later, the same president traveled to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The notion that the juxtaposition of these two events involves a “contradiction” (as the Washington Post subhead put it, and as the president’s speech tacitly acknowledged) is, in fact, a neat...

On December 12, 1985, 248 members of the 3/502 Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division perished on an Air Arrow crash near Gander, Newfoundland. They were on their way home to spend the holidays with their families and friends after completing a peacekeeping mission in the Sinai Desert.On the morning of 12 December 1985, at 0645 local time (0515 EST), Arrow Airlines flight 1285, a DC-8-63 charter carrying 248 passengers and a crew of eight, crashed just after takeoff from Gander International Airport, Gander, Newfoundland. All on board perished. The postcrash fire, fed by the contents of the stricken aircraft's...

USSR red army tanks graveyard— few km east of Kabul, Afghanistan When Russia left Afghanistan after the war, a lot of their equipment was left behind.

A new technology may make it easier for gun owners to improve their marksmanship. Opti-sight, a new pistol-aiming device, was developed to reduce the time law enforcement, professional and amateur shooters need for target practice to get better results at the firing range. Typically, shooters use an optical device known as a "sight" to take aim before firing on a target. Traditional pistol sight designs rely on a square post mounted on the front of the gun's barrel that is visually centered inside a notch on the back of the barrel. Shooters use the two pieces to align the barrel...

Fifteen-month-old Briana N. Porter, daughter of Maj. Dustin M. Porter stares in awe at five-year-old Nubs during his visit to Camp Pendleton’s Country Store, Dec. 5. The wild Iraqi dog is famous for making a 70-mile journey through the Iraqi desert to reunite with Maj. Brian P. Dennis, aircraft maintenance officer, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314, 3rd Marine Air Wing, after the two bonded during Dennis’s 2007 deployment. The recently published story, “Nubs: The True Story of a Marine, a Mutt and a Miracle,” has already made the New York Times’ children’s best seller list and is expected hit...

The recent shootings at the Ft. Hood, Texas army base, allegedly by an army psychiatrist, have placed much-needed focus on mental health care in the army. In an article published in the December issue of the journal CNS Spectrum, renowned psychopharmacology expert Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, calls for increased mental health staffing at Fort Hood and other army bases. Stahl, adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, reports that findings from interviews, surveys and education programs at Ft. Hood – data collected from more than 100 mental-health workers and...

103 Confirmed Kills Was an avid hunter as a kid and joined the Marines in 1967. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during Vietnam and holds the record for number of confirmed kills for Marine snipers, exceeding that of legendary Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock. In just 16 months he killed 103 enemies and another 216 kills were listed as probable’s by the military, only because it was too risky at the time to search the bodies for documents. When he left the Marines he told no-one of his of his role during the conflict and only a few fellow...

Operation Enduring Freedom, on Oct. 7 will begin its ninth year. At $4 billion per month, a National Priorities Project has determined that the total cost of military operations in Afghanistan by the end of the year will be almost $200 billion. Thoughtful American taxpayers may ask why the Obama administration has not only embraced the Central Asian ground war that it inherited from Bush, but is seeking to expand not only the U.S. military footprint, but subject its NATO allies to contribute more troops and funding as well. Shorn of post 9/11 patriotic and fervor against the perpetrators of...

When the Obama administration announced that enemy combatants and terrorists will be given Miranda Warnings when they are captured, many Americans wondered how that would improve our warfighting in Afghanistan, Iraq or other terrorist havens. However, upon examining this latest directive by President Barack Obama, perhaps there is an ulterior motive for his directive. Blurring the lines between law enforcement and the military appears to be the goal sought by Obama and the progressives. More federal control of local law enforcement while at the same time cross-training soldiers to perform the police function within the U.S...