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SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, SC (WIS) - Two Air Force F-16 jets based out of Shaw Air Force Base collided off the coast of South Carolina Thursday night, and one of them is missing. Air Force officials said the fighters were assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing collided in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean about 8:30pm on Thursday near Myrtle Beach. The aircraft were participating in night training maneuvers, officials said. The aircraft carried one person each. One F-16 was able to land safely at Charleston AFB, and the pilot is being examined by Air Force medical personnel. The location...

Clay Shaw has a gun problem. As a contender for appointment to the U.S. Senate, the former Fort Lauderdale congressman is catching flak for a vote he took in 1994 to ban assault weapons. The vote earned him a "D" grade from the National Rifle Association, which is politically potent in Republican politics. Shaw is now among the candidates Gov. Charlie Crist is considering for Mel Martinez's soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat. The governor has a strong pro-gun record, which serves as an important link between Crist and conservatives. The longtime NRA lobbyist in Tallahassee, Marion Hammer, has registered objections to...

JERSEY CITY -- Jack Shaw, a Jersey City political consultant who was among 44 people charged in a federal corruption probe, has died. Two officials with knowledge of the investigation said Shaw was found at home with several bottles of pills nearby. One of the officials said Shaw, 61, had an unspecified medical condition, and authorities are not jumping to conclusions about the cause of his death.

SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- Shaw's host unit, the 20th Fighter Wing, and the 609th Air Communications Squadron have earned Meritorious Unit Awards, the Commander of Air Combat Command, General John Corley, recently announced this week. "The 20 Fighter Wing's direct support of our Nation's effort in the CENTCOM region coupled with the recent performance during the 2009 ACC Phase II ORI is what made this award possible," exclaimed Col. Joseph Guastella, commander of the 20th Fighter Wing. "I'm extremely proud of the hard work our Airmen and Civilians have done over the last two years to earn this!"...

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, was paid about $5.2 million in compensation by hedge fund D.E. Shaw during the past year, according to financial disclosure forms released on Friday by the White House. Officials from D.E. Shaw were not immediately available for comment. Summers, a former U.S. treasury secretary, was a part-time managing director of the firm after stepping down as president of Harvard University. Summers was also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from major Wall Street firms and financial institutions, including JP Morgan (JPM.N),...

Posterboard is up on screen showing translations of what Saddam and Tariq Aziz said on the tapes released this weekend at the Intelligence Summit. It sounds like former UN inspector Tierney is the one reading the translations.

State Sen. Larry Shaw has already gotten hate mail since he was named chairman of a national Muslim civil rights organization last week. It’s nothing new, said the Fayetteville Democrat, the new chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “I get a lot of hate mail,” Shaw said Friday. “Just because I’m Muslim and because of CAIR, what CAIR stands for.”

RALEIGH — Sen. Larry Shaw of Fayetteville has been elected chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Shaw, a Democrat, has served on the organization’s board for three years. He described the council, known as CAIR, as a civil rights organization. Shaw said he looks forward to partnering with President Obama’s administration to protect civil liberties and help improve America’s international image. “We just want to work with them to foster better understanding and mutual accommodating,” Shaw said. The council is active on other issues, he said, such as sensitivity training with law enforcement and the efforts to bring peace...

Approximately one month ago the FBI had sent out a memo stated that they had cut off all ties with the terrorist supporting Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Apparently none of that matters to North Carolina Muslim Senator Larry Shaw.

Shaw Air Force Base is welcoming home members of a fighter squadron after a four-month deployment in Iraq. Air Force officials say nine pilots and their F-16CJ fighter jets returned home on Thursday. The pilots and aircraft were stationed at a base in central Iraq. The Air Force says the remaining 300 members of the 55th Fighter Squadron and the 20th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron are expected to return to Shaw on Saturday. One of the primary missions of F-16 pilots is to lure the enemy into firing surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery so the jets can hone in on them...

Three military bases in South Carolina are likely to become future homes for the F-35 fighter. The jet still is under development. But its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, is building three versions that can be used by the Air Force, Marines and Navy. The first test models are expected to roll out of the company’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant in May or June. Shaw Air Force Base reportedly is on that service’s “short list” to receive the first F-35s, which will replace the F-16 Fighting Falcons now at Shaw. But it probably will be 2012 before the fighter lands in South...

WASHINGTON – When the Council on American-Islamic Relations held its 14th Annual Banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel tonight, it was planning to raise funds and honor some of its supporters, but instead several top officials of the Muslim lobby group were served with subpoenas for various civil and criminal offenses. The dramatic surprise, caught on video to be released later, was a result of the research work of the Mapping Sharia Project, headed by Dave Gaubatz. He personally served CAIR Director Nihad Awad at the banquet tonight while North Carolina state Sen. Larry Shaw, D-S.C., a CAIR national...

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles judge dismissed a taxpayer lawsuit Wednesday that sought to repeal a long-standing directive prohibiting Los Angeles police officers from asking arrestees about their immigration status. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu sided with the city and the American Civil Liberties Union, which claimed there were no triable issues raised in the suit. He heard arguments on the motion June 10 and had the case under submission since then. Los Angeles resident Harold P. Sturgeon filed suit in May 2006 against police Chief William J. Bratton and members of the Police Commission, seeking...

03/17/2008: "Eco-Terrorism On Orcas" ”I did it to punish the rich white people of Orcas Island and make them pay for the death of the whales and the depletion of the rain forests” -Mondragon Gabriel Thomas Mondragon, 29 years old, who recently arrived from New Mexico, explained to Sheriff’s Deputies that in an attempt to make the people on Orcas “suffer just like the whales and trees”, he attempted to use a tree limbing saw -on a metal pole- to cut through a 69,000 volt power line.

Click here.Brilliant piece, and no foolin’ about the language. You’ve been warned.

12/21/2006 - SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AFPN) -- Approximately 46 Airmen returned to Shaw AFB in mid December after being deployed to Southwest Asia fighting the war on terrorism. The Airmen returned in two groups, one returning from supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, while the second group was mainly supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The first group, about 20 Airmen from the 20th Civil Engineer Squadron and one from the 20th Medical Operations Squadron, returned from six months in Iraq. During their deployment, the 20th CES and 20th MDOS members supported the 823rd Red Horse Squadron based at Hurlburt...

JUST A REMINDER FOR FREEPERS IN THE SC AREA. WE WILL HAVE OUR MONTHLY COUNTER PROTEST AT THE CAPITOL IN COLUMBIA. FREEPMAIL ME IF YOU NEED DETAILS.

George Bernard Shaw is recorded by a Muslim letter writer to my local paper (the Dominion Post: December 1)) as extolling the virtues of a world dictatorship run by a person like Mohammad, the founder of Islam. The letter writer says the bulk of authors actually praise Mohammad and his religion.

..frenzy over the Katrina tapes stands in stark contrast to..disinterest of Democrats and the media in the Saddam tapes showing Iraq had WMD and Bush didn't lie....just before Operation Iraqi Freedom both Israeli intelligence and U.S. satellite surveillance detected large amounts of military material moving from Iraq to Syria....not a panicked move...it was a well-planned operation conducted with the assistance of Russia, to which Iraq was $8 billion in debt, much of it for weapons. Russia was worried about what coalition forces might find.According to John Shaw, former deputy undersecretary for international technology security, the WMD were moved out of...

Shaw Now Working with the Corps, FEMA, and Other Government Agencies to Rebuild Southern Louisiana and Gulf Coast Communities BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2005--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) announced today that it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to aid in the recovery and rebuilding efforts. Shaw will provide supervision, equipment, materials, labor, logistics, and all means necessary to provide the Corps of Engineers an immediate response for construction contract capability. The contract will provide construction and related services including program planning, scheduling, design, engineering, transportation, construction management,...