Is Stagflation Here To Stay

World Is Heading For 'Great Stagnation', Says Goldman -- The Telegraph There is a growing risk that the global economy will move fro...

President Obama: 33,000 Troops Will Withdraw From Afghanistan Next Year

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brendan Quinn looks out over a village while providing security during a patrol in the Purchaman district of Afghanista...

Picture Of The Day

FLIGHT INSPECTION U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Michael Garetz inspects flares loaded aboard a AV-8B Harrier on the flightline on Kandahar Airfield...

The Campaign Against Qaeda Leaders Has Resulted In A Heavy Toll

The Killing Of Awlaki Is The Latest In The Campaign Against Qaeda Leaders -- New York Times The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and a number of h...

News Roundup On The Assassination Of Anwar al-Awlaki

Secret U.S. Memo Sanctioned Killing Of Aulaqi -- Washington Post The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal tar...

Predators Now Routinely Patrol The U.S. - Canada Border

The unmanned planes look north toward the long, lightly defended and admittedly porous Canada-U.S. border – the best route many Americans be...

Could Defence Cuts Result With Britain Losing The Falkland Islands

Defence Cuts Mean Britain Could Lose The Falkland Islands, Warns Thinktank -- Daily Mail Crippling defence cuts have left the Falkland Islan...

The World Economy Is Heading Towards A Black Hole

The World Economy: Be Afraid -- Economist Unless politicians act more boldly, the world economy will keep heading towards a black hole. IN D...

After It's Fallout With Pakistan, The U.S. Is Looking For New Allies

US Finds New Friend In Uzbekistan After Pakistan Fallout -- The Telegraph President Obama has asked Uzbekistan to expand its role in resuppl...

U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey Becomes The Newest Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs of Staff

TOP LEADERS Left to right, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama ...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- September 30, 2011

Anwar al-Awlaki Dead: What It Means For US, Yemen -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor The assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citize...

World News Briefs -- September 30, 2011 (Evening Edition)

Same US Military Unit That Got Osama Bin Laden Killed Anwar al-Awlaki -- The Telegraph Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born al-Qaeda leader linked to ...

Unrest In Syria -- News Updates September 30, 2011

Defecting Syria Soldiers Join Ranks With Protesters -- Christian Science Monitor Syria's uprising has taken a violent turn as soldiers h...

More Details On The D.C. Drone Bomb Plot

Latest Details On D.C. Drone Bomb Plot -- CBS News/AP A 26-year-old Massachusetts man charged with planning aerial bombings of the Pentagon ...

Russia Scraps Cold War-Era Typhoon Submarine

Russian submarine infographic Red October No More: Russia Scraps Cold War-Era Typhoon Submarine -- The Telegraph Russia is to definitively s...

Marine Corps Getting F-22s?

Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor (Source: Lockheed Martin ) F-22s For The Marine Corps? -- DoD Buzz Yes, you read it correctly, Marines flying F...

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Freedo...o...o...o...mmm!!!

What does it mean?  Interesting discussion going on here . I don't view the Constitution as the ultimate possible evolutionary pinnacle ...

Will Budget Cuts Result In The British Navy Losing Their Carrier Skills Forever?

Royal Navy Sackings 'Will Lose Aircraft Carriers Skills Forever' -- The Telegraph One of the Royal Navy's most senior officers h...

Who's on First. What's on Second.

With interest.  [ Read ]

Who Is To Blame For Britain's Defense Cutbacks

Defence Secretary Liam Fox has been accused of undermining the military covenant after scrapping a £1.5bn programme to upgrade decaying barr...

The Debate On U.S. Defense Cuts Continues

U.S. soldiers fire at an enemy hiding position during Operation Tofan 2 in Suri Khel, Afghanistan, Sept. 16, 2011. Soldiers worked to clear ...

Where Some Of Our Foreign Aid Money Goes

Embarrassing Moment Playboy Son Of A African Dictator Has £5Million In Supercars Seized From Outside His Home -- Daily Mail Eleven supercars...

CleanUpATF speculates on imminent management shakeup

This assessment has also been shared with this correspondent by other sources, some hearing scuttlebutt that a partial realignment of senior...

Afghanistan War News Updates -- September 30, 2011

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Gary Volesky. center, talks to troops during a short break while out on patrol near Wanat Village in the Waygul Valley,...

World News Briefs -- September 30, 2011

U.S.-Born Cleric Anwar al Awlaki Killed In Yemen -- McClathcy News SANAA, Yemen — Anwar al Awlaki, an American-born Muslim preacher who beca...

Making Hay

Not that he'll have anything to do with those who baled it... [ Watch ]

Ahhh....

.... no...o...o , I don't think I'd put one on my car... [ More ] Sorry, Michael , I like a lot of your stuff but " experience...

First Person Shooters

"This doesn't make me happy at all," said Vicki Bash , owner of Shooters. "Any time you have people drinking, you never ...

The Snowball Effect

I was enjoying the hate in comments under that Media Matters hit piece on Mike (no surprise there) and two thoughts struck: 1. I'm jea...

We're the Only Ones Half Off Enough

Peterson is a 14-year veteran who bought a home as part of the federal Officer Next Door Program that allows officers to buy homes at half...

Myth Busters

What if...? [ More ] [Via Ron W ]

Raising the Bar

Just wow. [ Read ]

This Day in History: September 30

The declaration of Spain in favour of France has given universal joy to every Whig, while the poor Tory droops like a withering flower unde...

Editor's Note

My main computer (that I use for blogging) has just died. Sighhh .... off to get a new one. Regular blogging should be back in a few hours. ...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- September 30, 2011

The change caps both the takeover and the transformation of America’s military. | AP Photos Mike Mullen To Martin Dempsey: A Generational Sh...

Brain Trauma Or Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries Will Be Felt For Decades

Image DOD Invisible Injuries Of War To Be Felt For Decades -- Stars and Stripes Sixty-six percent of the most seriously wounded soldiers ret...

Pirate-Fighting Mercs Arrested in Africa for Carrying Guns -- Danger Room In two years of operations, a Virginia-based maritime security com...

Outgoing Russian President Medvedev Admits Putin Is More Popular Than I Am

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Radio Free Europe Dmitry Medvedev: 'Putin Is More Popular Th...

American Born Al Qaeda Leader al-Awlaki Killed In Strike By US Jets, Drones

video platform video management video solutions video player Anwar al-Awlaki Killed: Officials in Yemen Confirm Al Qaeda Cleric Dead -- ABC ...