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Corruption: Our lawless president tells defense contractors they can break the law requiring politically inconvenient layoff notices caused by sequestration defense cuts, and the taxpayers will pay their legal bills. When President Obama took the oath of office, he swore to uphold the Constitution and see that the laws of the United States were faithfully executed. He lied, and that lie was exposed in the administration's weekly document dump last Friday. It included a memo from the Department of Labor telling defense contractors not to obey the law and that, if they don't, U.S. taxpayers will foot their legal bills...

On July 14th the IDF's best anti-air defense vessel was mission killed by a strike from shore off the Beruit, Lebannon coast. It appears that the vessel was hit by a guided missile, launched either by Iranian trained Hezbollah, or by Iranian Guards themselves operating out of Lebannon. Land-launched Chinese anti-shipping missile, C-802 The missile was apparently a Chinese-made C-802 which is a sub sonic surface to surface anti-shipping missile. The Iranians have purchased a lot of these from China, and is working with N. Korea to improve the design. The missile is capable of a sea-skimming approach, and reportedly...

It's as much psychological as it physical - our military's global reputation for superiority. Probably the only other armed service on earth with as deadly a reputation is Israel's. And that reputation stands as the first line of defense against our enemies. Yet our media hounds the heels of soldiers looking for faults or scandals, our politicians muck up the process of securing and stabilizing Iraq, and pseudo-intellectuals in America protest the scapegoat - the American soldier. In spite of it all, the troops press forward in the job that's set before them - and accomplish in months what it...