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President Obama has put securing Afghanistan near the top of his foreign policy agenda, but "victory" in the war-torn country isn't necessarily the United States' goal, he said Thursday in a TV interview.

I'll admit right up front I've given up on the Main Stream Media (MSM). However, I will also admit to occasionally catching a few "news" stories from them. This may be in the form of the leading stories on the 10 o'clock news while waiting for the local weather; or the headlines/topics I have set up on my google start page. So while I don't rely on MSM for "news" (because they don't report it, they give us biased spin and editorials) I do catch a few stories now and then. Honestly, more for morbid entertainment value (as in how...

Would like a recommendation on a "large" survival knife for my kit. I already have a couple of smaller folding survival knives, rescue tools, etc. To round out my "go bag" I'd like to replace a relatively cheap-o knife that was given to me years ago with something a little more substantial. I've been looking at the Ka Bar Becker Combat Bowie (9" blade). I like the size/shape, the steel hardness looks about right, full-tang design... Just about everything I'm looking for. Anyone have personal experience with this knife? What about a recommendation on something similar? Note, I can get...

Global warming hysteria continues to make its impact on our state, national and global economies with increasingly devastating consequences. Severe impacts to food and energy supplies and prices are a direct result of some of the policies adopted to "fight global warming," including the conversion of agricultural resources from food to fuel and intentionally restricting energy supplies in order to force energy conversion. These results were predicted by many with scientific or economic credentials. Dr. James Hansen, the corrupt director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, celebrated his testimony from 20 years ago this July by once again warning...

On the news this AM driving to work... Apparently yesterday a would-be robber walked into a local liquor store at about 5pm. "Flashed" a weapon and demanded money. The person behind the counter - who happened to be the owner - drew on him, fired one shot, and killed said would-be robber. No innocent bystanders injured, no property damage. Now that is what I call good gun control... "Flashed" is in quotes because that is what the radio news reported. Not real sure what good that does - apparently not much. All it did was make the owner feel his...

07-NEWS-0023 27 January 2007 Successful Missile Defense Intercept Test Takes Place Off Hawaii Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering announced that a planned intercept test for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense element was successfully conducted today at 12:20 a.m. EST (January 26, 7:20 p.m. Hawaii Time) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Preliminary indications are that planned flight test objectives were achieved. This test involved the successful intercept of a “high endo-atmospheric” (just inside earth’s atmosphere) unitary (non-separating) target representing a “SCUD”-type ballistic missile launched from...