Happy New Year

WNU Editor: I wish I could take a drink or two, but fighting the flu has been a tough fight , and all that I want to do now is hit the sack...

Ohio gun ruling must be followed up with police training

There’s more at issue than that—nothing less than the lives and safety of gun owners who are breaking no law—but are nonetheless being physi...

World News Briefs -- December 31, 2010

A long-range, improved Sejil 2 missile is test-fired in the desert at an unknown location in Iran in 2009. Iran does not yet have nuclear we...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- December 31, 2010

TUG TEAMS - The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman returns to Naval Station Norfolk after a seven-month deployment, guided by a team of tu...

Over 100 Journalists Killed This Year Covering Wars And Conflicts

2010 Journalist Deaths At 105 — PEC Report 2010 -- Eurasia Review The Swiss NGO Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) denounced on Monday the death of...

GRE Round Up for December 30

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs : Dave Workman/Seattle: Does Ohio Supreme Court ruling send signal about Seattle parks gun...

More Terror Plots Uncovered In Europe

Europe Learns No Nation Is Immune To Terror -- Time Magazine The Dec. 29 arrest of five men suspected of plotting a deadly shooting siege in...

An Analysis On The CIA's Long History With Pakistan's Intelligence Services

Should The CIA Turn Against Pakistan's Spies? -- The New Republic The recent chief-of-station (COS) cover-shredding brouhaha between the...

Afghanistan's Drug Lords Have All The Appearance Of Colobian-Style Drug Cartels

A U.S. Marine patrols through a poppy field in a village in the Golestan district of Farah province, Afghanistan ( Reuters ) Taliban Drug Ca...

China Is Preparing For All Out War

China Preparing For Armed Conflict 'In Every Direction' -- The Telegraph China is preparing for conflict 'in every direction'...

We're the Only Ones a Real Chip Off the Old Block Enough

The bad apple doesn't fall far from the tree... [ Read ] What a punk.  But no, no special treatment here... [Via Harvey ]

We're the Only Ones Remorseful Enough

I'm... BAM! BAM! ..so very sorry for your loss... [ Read ] [Via Harvey ]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Will there be a gun massacre in Ambridge? [ Read ] Yeah, I know it's just a show, but it's one written to evoke emotional effects ...

A Real Good Job of It

“I’m new and different,’’ he said in a soft voice. “But I realize that deep inside me there is still that ugliness, and I know that I have ...

We're the Only Ones Beating Out the Competition Enough

However, Clarke and an RCMP firearms-enforcement officer who initiated the raids and is named in the suit have both started side busines...

The Obvious Solution

A woman was bitten on the face by another woman while her brother had his jaw smashed and arm broken in the second beating on Kaikoura stre...

Down in the West Texas Town of El Paso...

Last month El Paso, a sprawling southwest Texas city of 700,000 residents, was named the safest city of its size in the United States for ...

Mixed Ruling

John Richardson updates us on Woollard v Sheridan , a lawsuit challenging Maryland concealed carry law on Second And Fourteenth Amendment g...

"Fork-Tongued Performance"

Kevin D. Williamson at National Review Online assesses the serpentine Andrew Traver , who sounds like he'd fit right in at the BATFU s...

Media disinformation on guns continues in Texas open carry hit piece

Or maybe you’re just…uh…making it all up... [ More ] Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a queasy, delusional lying hoplophobe....

This Day in History: December 30

These characters must not slumber nor sleep at home in such times of pressing danger; they must not content themselves in the enjoyment of p...

GRE Round Up for December 29

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs : Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers: Anti-gun Florida Chamber of Commerce at it again! Dave Workman...

Aaron Zelman, rest in peace

Goodbye, my friend.  What an honor it was to know you. I am so grateful for the work you did on behalf of freedom, and for the legacy you ...

Filibusted!

Progressives, liberals and left of center politicians have teamed up to radically curtail the rights of Republican Senators in the next Cong...

For the Children

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today filed a brief in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas urging t...

"Defending the Second Amendment"

...a time honored tradition of hunting... ...As a sportsman... ...Americans rightly deserve the option of transporting a firearm in a respon...

We're NOT the Only Ones...

...thank goodness. [ Read ]

Are You Serious...?

As in "Where in the Constitution...?" Hey, it's an emergency . Besides, it's not like anybody's going to actually do ...

Propaganda ‘journalism’ blames U.S. gun laws for Mexican violence

The 90% canard has been exposed so many times, and for so long, that a professional “Authorized Journalist” using it again here can only be...

This Day in History: December 29

When the British attacked Savannah on December 29, 1778, the defending Continental forces, numbering about 650 men under command of Maj. Gen...

Editor's Note

Update 10:45 EST Thursday : Thanks for your comments. I feel much better now, but this has been one rough bout of the flu. In fact .... the ...

The Somali Piracy Problem Is Getting Worse

Somali Pirates More Dangerous Than Ever -- Globe And Mail It’s been another lucrative week for the barefoot buccaneers of Somalia. First the...

India Issues A Nationwide Terror Alert

Security has been tightened in major cities including Mumbai, the target of an attack in 2008 [ Reuters ] India Issues Nationwide Terror Ale...

Is Guantanamo Bay Prison A Recruiting Tool For Al Qaeda?

Camp Delta, the fenced-in core of the Guantánamo prison. Angel Franco/The New York Times Gitmo Is Not Al Qaeda's 'Number One Recruit...

A Look At The History Of Public Debt, And the Conflicts That It Spawned

The West And The Tyranny Of Public Debt -- Newsweek The history of public debt is the very history of national power: how it has been won an...

Pic Of The Day

( Click on Image to Enlarge ) NORFOLK (Dec. 19, 2010) An F/A-18 Hornet is decorated with Christmas lights on the flight deck of the aircraft...

Another Obstacle In Building The Bomber Command Memorial

Work on the Bomber Command Memorial will begin in May Change In Law Could Leave Bomber Command Memorial With £250k VAT Bill -- The Telegraph...

George Clooney And The Start-Up Phase Of The Satellite Sentinel Project

Photo from The Huffington Post George Clooney Launches Satellite Monitoring System In Sudan -- The Telegraph A group founded by American act...

No Kissing At Midnight On New Year`s Day

Comrades in arms: Married couple Neil and Michelle Lewis, who met in the Army, will be spending New Year together at Camp Bastion in Afghani...

Britain Gets Ready For A Worse Case Scenario In The Persian Gulf

Britain Forms Plan For Gulf Evacuation In Event Of War With Iran -- The Telegraph The British armed forces are drawing up contingency plans ...

Afghanistan`s Death Toll Of Foreign Troops Passes 700

( Click on Image to Enlarge ) No comment: Classified United Nations maps reveal the security risk assessment of Afghanistan worsened between...

An Analysis On The Euro Rescue Plan And What It Means For European Unity

As Ireland Flails, Europe Lurches Across the Rubicon -- Wall Street Journal DEAUVILLE, France—On Oct. 18, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy ...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- December 28, 2010

Breaking Away: Obama’s War On Terror Is Not “Bush Lite.” -- David Cole, New Republic It is difficult, in these partisan times, to find any c...

World News Briefs -- December 28, 2010 (Evening Edition)

After Khordokovsky Verdict, Taking Stock Of Business And Corruption In Russia -- Christian Science Monitor Russia lashed out Tuesday at West...

President Of The Ivroy Coast Refuses To Step Down

Ivory Coast President Toughens Stance -- Wall Street Journal The incumbent president of Ivory Coast said Tuesday that his government would c...

GRE Round Up for December 28

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs : Dave Workman/Seattle: Do the math: Washington, with liberal gun laws, relatively safe Ku...

Threats Is The Order Of The Day On The Korean Peninsula

S. Korean President Faces Conflicting Pressures As He Toughens N. Korea Response -- Washington Post SEOUL - The latest provocations from Nor...

Russian Justice At Work

Russia Rejects US, European Criticism of Khodorkovsky Conviction -- Voice Of America Russia has rejected U.S.and European criticism of the e...

China's Anti-Carrier Missile Is Raising Alarm Bells In Washington

U.S. Navy flight deck personnel prepare a San Diego Coast Guard HH-60 helicopter for launch at dawn on the flight deck aboard USS Abraham Li...

More Details On Britain's Christmas Day Plot Emerge

Christmas Bomb Plot: Nine Men Remanded Over Plan To 'Blow Up Big Ben And Westminster Abbey' -- The Telegraph Nine alleged terrorists...