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Decades of consolidation have left the Pentagon vulnerable to mishaps—including when the sole maker of a crucial type of gunpowder went offlineMINDEN, La.—Nearly two years ago, an errant spark inside a mill caused an explosion so big it destroyed all the building’s equipment and blew a corrugated fiberglass wall 100 feet. It also shut down the sole domestic source of an explosive the Department of Defense relies on to produce bullets, mortar shells, artillery rounds and Tomahawk missiles. The ramshackle facility makes the original form of gunpowder, known today as black powder, a highly combustible material with hundreds of military...

I posted this on a few threads so I figured might as well start a separate thread and try to get some intelligent, insightful answers on this. Now the Conservative Community just need to 1. Have a Plan A in order to prevent voter fraud from being used to get Obama reelected 2. A Plan B, C, D, E, F through Z to allow us to prepare to handle the worst case disaster scenario that Obama gets elected through voter fraud and other means. What are the Plans A through Z that we have ? In particular, which of the...

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday said there needs to be a backup plan for cutting deficits and raising the debt ceiling instead of relying purely on a measure soon to be voted upon that faces near certain defeat in the Senate. Speaking to reporters, Boehner said it would be responsible to consider a backup plan.

<p>Vote against the recall, but vote for Feinstein, too, just in case.</p> <p>The discussions, prompted by private polls that purportedly show Davis losing in the recall, are expected to continue right up to Saturday's deadline for candidates to file to run.</p>