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Denver Post goes squishy on Duncan/Strandlof
Back in May, when Rick Duncan/Richard Strandlof was first exposed as a phony veteran who had starred in VoteVets commercials and headed money raising schemes ostensibly for veterans, the Denver Post led the posse to put Standloff on the gallows. A few days ago, some half-witted and unknown band of lawyers from Virginia called the […]
“Jesus” Rifles
I’m sure some of you already saw this, but apparently Trijicon has been inscribing references to Bible passages on its optics. After several media outlets issued reports about this, Trijicon agreed to remove the inscriptions. Here is a report on the inscriptions from ABC News. I used the ACOG a lot during my time in […]
Thiessen confronts Amanpour
Former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen sent me this YouTube video of his interview on Chritiane Amanpour’s show yesterday (the confrontation begins at about 5:48); It continues in this second video;
The Jarhead Thread
There have been a few stories that I have been wanting to blog about involving the Marines, so instead of making several posts I have decided to make one. I think it will make it easier to comment and for you Army pukes to talk to trash. Enjoy… 22nd MEU Deploying to Haiti These Marines […]
Tale of two Baghdads?
For those that have not heard yet there was a large attack planned on the Iraqi Government in Baghdad. The Iraqi police and local law enforcement where able to prevent the attack in several raids across the city. During raids on houses and warehouses in Baghdad that lasted throughout the day, the authorities arrested 25 […]
Trouble in my old AO
I was very saddened to see that a series of bombings in the city of Hit in Iraq killed eight including the family of Lt. Col Suleiman (the BBC says he was a major but he wasn’t), the leader of a counter-terrorism unit in Hit. After my battalion left Ninawa province, my company was assigned […]
Rupert Hamer, RIP
I know that many people here have a dislike of the media when it comes to reporting conflicts, but I thought that deserves a post. A British journalist has been killed in an explosion while covering the war in Afghanistan. Rupert Hamer, 39, the defense correspondent of the Sunday Mirror newspaper, was with the US […]
The perception of Obama comes back to reality
JammieWearingFool reads the New York Times so we don’t have to, and the NYT tells us that there’s a perception out there that President Obama is a wimp on National Security. Really? I hadn’t noticed. It’s not just coming from Republicans (for example, Dick Cheney’s accusation that Mr. Obama is trying to pretend that the […]
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