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RAF Bomber Command Memorial Poppy Drop

RAF Bomber Command Memorial Poppy Drop Seen From The Air -- The Telegraph Camera on-board an RAF Lancaster bomber captures the dropping of t...

World News Briefs -- June 30, 2012

Annan Warns Of Severe Crisis If Syria Unresolved -- Reuters (Reuters) - International mediator Kofi Annan appealed to world powers to reach ...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- June 30, 2012

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brief reporters at the Pentagon, J...

Holy Timbuktu Sites Destroyed By Mali Islamists

Mali Islamists Destroy Holy Timbuktu Sites -- Reuters (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Mali Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs and pick-axes began...

Lawmakers Retarget ‘Stolen Valor’ Thieves

Lawmakers Retarget ‘Valor’ Thieves After Court Rules Bogus Military Boasts Are Free Speech -- FOX News A day after the Supreme Court struck ...

25% Of War Deaths Medically Preventable

An Afghan soldier runs past a U.S. Army paratrooper armed with an M249 squad automatic weapon during a firefight with insurgent forces near ...

U.S. Navy Caused 'Skyquake' Along San Diego County's Coastline

Getty Images Navy Says It Caused Mysterious 'Skyquake' -- North County Times After an initial couldn't-have-been-us denial, it t...

No U.S. Military Intervention In Mali

US Rules Out Military Intervention In Islamist-Dominated Breakaway Region Of Mali -- The Hill The State Department's top official for Af...

Why Should The US Support A Missile Defense Program That They Are Not Going To Use?

A MEADS launcher on display. ( File photo ) Panetta Presses Congress For MEADs Funding -- DoD Buzz Defense Secretary Leon Panetta hopes to s...

Picture Of The Day

Navy Capt. Brandon Cordill flies an F/A-18 Hornet over Baltimore, June 15, 2012, during the Star Spangled Sailabration, which coincides with...

Ronald Reagan Made Secret Plans To Loan U.S. Warship To Britain If Aircraft Carrier Was Lost During Falklands War

Loan: Mr Reagan would have handed Britain the use of the amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima (pictured) should harm have come to either HMS Invi...

Mexico's Presidential Election Raises Concerns In Washington

Mexican presidential frontrunner Enrique Pena Nieto greets supporters. Photograph: REUTERS Mexican Election Raises Fears In Washington -- Th...

US Homeland Security Details How Law Enforcement Should Respond To Gunmen

A pocket card handed out to Homeland Security employees in April detailing how they should handle an "active shooter" situation. B...

The Majority In Pakistan View The U.S. As An Enemy

Poll: Most In Pakistan View US As Enemy -- The Hill A record number of Pakistanis consider the United States an enemy, according to a new su...

Iran Believes There Will Be War

Photo - iStockphoto/Thinkstock Iran: There Will Be War – And We'll Win -- WND More than 1,000 ballistic missiles capable of reaching U.S...

Iran's Nuclear Program Continues

Iran’s Arms Programs Continue To Accelerate -- Aviation Week The pressure is growing and the threats are escalating against Iran. The U.S. C...

Bo Xilai: Inside The Scandal – A WSJ Documentary

The fall of Bo Xilai, once a rising star in Chinese politics, has plunged the country into its biggest crisis since Tiananmen Square. In thi...

United Technologies Admits To Covering Up The Sale Of Military Software To China

China's Z-10 gunship, its first modern attack helicopter. U.S. defense giant United Technologies and two subsidiaries admitted selling r...

Sending Terrorists To Sub-Gitmo Hell

Obama Sends Terrorists to Sub-Gitmo Hell -- Abe Greenwald, Commentary Among the unfortunate things about the ObamaCare ruling is that it’s t...

Justice: Holder Above the Law

If the Congress is looking to use its Constitutional powers under Article. I., Section. 8., "To provide for calling forth the Militia t...

Why Does The White House Want To Increase Health Care Fees For Members Of The Military?

Obama To Soldiers: Pay Up -- Washington Free Beacon Threatens to veto bill unless it hikes health care fees for service members The Obama ad...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- June 29, 2012

Iran is storing oil in tankers at sea, but may soon have to decommission wells if the EU trade emargo is not lifted. Photograph: Tim Chong/R...

World News Briefs -- June 29, 2012 (Evening Edition)

Syrian Groups Say Bloody Day Left High Toll of Civilians -- New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria’s opposition on Friday reported the deadl...

Egypt's New President Wants The U.S. To Release The Blind Sheik From Prison

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman Morsi Wants To Free Sheik Who Plotted U.S. Terror -- New York Times CAIRO — President-elect Mohamed Morsi of the Mu...

Secret Wiretaps Are 'Rocking' The US Department of Justice

Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record -- Roll Call In the midst of a fiery floor debate over cont...

Report points to Clinton-era gunwalking

It does lead to some interesting questions, particularly for those demanding to expand investigations to include the Bush -era “Operation Wi...

US Air Force Faces Growing Sex Scandal

31 Female Victims And Counting In Air Force Sexual Assault Scandal -- The Atlantic In what's probably the worst sex assault scandal in t...

White House Threatens To Veto The Defense Appropriations Bill

WH Issues Veto Threat On Defense Approps Bill -- DoD Buzz The House’s Republican-controlled defense committees are 0 for 2 so far this year ...

Civil War In Syria -- News Updates June 29, 2012

Young Children, Entire Families Among Almost 200 ‘Massacred’ In Besieged Syrian City Of Douma -- National Post/Reuters BEIRUT — Syrians in t...

The Global Arms Trade (Infographic)

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UN To Seek Arms Trade Treaty In July

July UN Meeting To Discuss Global Arms Trade Treaty -- Voice of America Delegates from more than 150 countries are to meet next month (July ...

My Congressman

We just talked about this worthless lump here . And now I see this : LaTourette votes no on Holder contempt Seeing as how entrusting him w...