The Day After North Korea Collapses

This satellite image shows North Korea in pitch-black darkness. Image credits: Planet Observer / Science Photo Library The Day After -- Bill...

Islamic Honor Killings Return To Chechnya

Chechen Women In Mortal Fear As President Backs Islamic Honor Killings -- Washington Times ACHXOY-MARTAN, Chechnya — Chechnya's governme...

Chavez Returns To Cuba For More Cancer Treatment

Cuba's President Raul Castro (L) and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talk at the Jose Marti airport in Havana March 25, 2012. Phot...

The Growing Philippine Role In America's Aisan Strategy

Philippines Role May Expand as U.S. Adjusts Asia Strategy -- New York Times FORT MAGSAYSAY, the Philippines — The squad from the United Stat...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- April 30, 2012

Al Qaeda Is Far From Defeated -- Seth Jones, Wall Street Journal While the U.S. prepares a strategic shift toward the Far East, evidence mou...

World News Briefs -- April 30, 2012 (Evening Edition)

Diplomatic Silence Shrouds Chinese Dissident Chen's Situation -- L.A. Times U.S. and Chinese officials maintained silence Monday on the ...

Is Israel Alone?

Go-It-Alone Outlook Now Shapes Israel's Security Policy -- L.A. Times Its get-tough approach with the Palestinians, and now with Iran, i...

Drone Strikes Are Back After Pakistan Refuses To Open NATO Supply Routes

Latest US Drone Attack On Pakistan Torpedoes Reopening Of Nato Supply Route -- Times of India WASHINGTON: Undeterred by Islamabad's shri...

An Increasingly Common Question

How much of the Bill of Rights can we get rid of? [ More ]  How much will they be allowed? [Via Ryan G ]

All in the Name of Preserving Ashton Kutcher Movies.

In short, they made unrealistic demands on reality and reality did not oblige them.  [ Read ] Yeah, that happens.

Now That's What I'm Talkin' About

Thank you, Glocked and Loaded . Thank you, ricketyclick . How about you ?

Civil War In Syria -- News Updates April 30, 2012

20 Deaths Reported After Explosions Rock Syrian City -- CNN (CNN) -- A third explosion rocked the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Monda...

We're NOT the Only Ones...

Meet Officer Regina Tasca . [ Read ] [Via Russ Howard ]

Insult to Injury

Thai web editor faces 20 years for 'royal insults' [ More ]   So if I say Bhumibol presuming to be a ruler shows him to be a barbar...

Ex-CIA Head Defends Post-9/11 Tactics

Hard Measures: Ex-CIA Head Defends Post-9/11 Tactics -- CBS 60 Minutes Jose Rodriguez has no regrets about the CIA using "enhanced inte...

A Budding Prohibited Person

Hurt me, baby, make me write bad checks. [ Read ] Don't we all feel safer now, thanks to Frank Lautenberg ?

Review and Win

All that you have to do is write and post a short (200+ words) review of The Survivalist Blog dot Net, or of my new book “31 Days to Survi...

Petro Dollars Are Now Staying In The Middle East

Gulf States Keep Oil Dollars Home -- Wall Street Journal Booming oil prices are flooding Arab countries with money, but where the lion's...

Ha Ha. Dead People. Ha Ha.

The political and media elites think this is something to laugh about. [ Read and watch ]

Schimel’s anti-gun rant shows desperation for relevance

But Schimel’s not done. Her new “common sense” crusade involves standing in front of a “Gun Violence Prevention Mural” (no doubt every bit ...

Calls Rise For A Boycott Of The 2012 Euro Football Championships

Euro 2012 Faces Diplomatic Crisis Over Ukraine's Jailed Opposition Leader -- The Guardian Germany leads west European and EU states thre...

Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming

You've sent in yours already, right?

This Day in History: April 30

Be Sure to keep with your Convoy: for my own part I hardly see a Possibility of an unarmed Vessells geting safe over, without. We were surro...

Why Did President Obama Get The Nobel Peace Prize?

Warrior In Chief -- Peter L. Bergen, New York Times THE president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration...

Fierce Fighting Reported In Eastern Congo

Bosco 'Terminator' Ntaganda Takes Over DR Congo Towns -- BBC Troops loyal to Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Co...

The 5 Most Wanted Al Qaeda Leaders

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The 5 al-Qaida Leaders Most Wanted By US -- Seattle PI/AP On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALs shot and killed al-Q...

Osama Bin Laden's Home Being Sold Off Brick By Brick

Self-obsessed: The Muslim extremist indulged his vane side despite living in this fortified and undecorated compound Osama bin Laden's A...

Bin Laden Documents Reveal His Involvement In Launching Attacks On NATO Soldiers In Afghanistan (Update)

Revealed: Secret Documents Show Bin Laden Helped Taliban Launch Attacks On Western Soldiers In Afghanistan -- Daily Mail Osama bin Laden wor...

Afghanistan War News Updates -- April 30, 2012

Gen. John Allen, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and Under Secretary of Defense Jim Miller (left) testified … U.S. Commander John Allen S...

World News Briefs -- April 30, 2012

Burnt newspaper copies are seen in the rubble of a destroyed This Day newspaper building in Abuja April 28. Suicide car bombers targeted the...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 30, 2012

UK Puts Missiles On London Rooftop To Guard Olympics -- Reuters (Reuters) - Britain's military has told residents of an upscale apartmen...

U.S. Military Policies On Prostitution Facing Greater Scrutiny

U.S. Military Faces Scrutiny Over Its Prostitution Policies In Wake Of Colombian Sex Scandal -- National Post No one talks tougher against p...

Global Demonstrations Planned For May 1

Protesters with the Occupy movement block one of the entrances to the Port of Oakland in California. Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disrupt...

Picture Of The Day

U.S. sailors prepare an E-2C Hawkeye air craft for launch on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson under way in the In...

Editor's Note

A bit behind in my blogging this morning. That is what happens when you take a day off. I should be caught up with my posts by midday.

Is Sudan Backing Joseph Kony's LRA?

Ugandan Army Says Sudan Is Backing Joseph Kony's LRA -- BBC The Ugandan army says the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kon...

U.S. Special Forces Aid In The Hunt Of African Warlord Joseph Kony

In Vast Jungle, U.S. Troops Aid In Search For Kony -- New York Times OBO, Central African Republic — It has got to be one of the oddest matc...

Sudan-South Sudan War -- News Updates April 30, 2012

Sudan Declares State of Emergency As Clashes Continue -- New York Times KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan declared a state of emergency on Sunday alon...

The Start Of "Late Great Depression"?

Robert Shiller - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 ( Wikipedia ) We Are In Age Of ‘Late Great Depression’: Shiller -- CNBC The world ...

Decline In U.S. Air Power?

Two F-22 Raptors fly over the Pacific Ocean after a refueling mission, March 9, 2009. The Raptors are deployed from Elmendorf Air Force Base...

Playing Politics With The Bin Laden Killing

GOP Says Obama Playing Politics With Bin Laden Anniversary -- CNN Washington (CNN) -- Days before the one-year anniversary of the raid that ...