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You of course remember the case of army Major Nidal Hassan, who went on a rampage down in Fort Hood just a little over two years ago, slaughtering 13 unarmed soldiers and wounding 29 others while shouting, “Allah akbar!”
Turns out this was merely a case of “workplace violence” according to the Department of [...]
In NRO’s The Corner, Andy McCarthy punches holes in the notion that Operation Fast and Furious – also known more colloquially as the Gunwalker Fiasco – was somehow inherited from President Obama’s predecessor:
The key to their strategy is conflating two very different programs: Operation Fast & Furious and a Bush era ATF initiative [...]
It’s a little telling, isn’t it? The reaction of former US Attorney Dennis Burke to the constitutional exercise of congressional oversight over the gun walker fiasco (emphasis added):
Initial drafts of the letter reflected the hard tone of Burke’s unequivocal assertions that the allegations Grassley was hearing from ATF agents were wrong. Later [...]
That’s all you need to fly: Airspeed and money.
Sadly, you can get airborne – and put her back down again – without a lick of sense.
In London, of all places.
We’ll probably see a lot more of this in the northeast as autumn goes to winter.
Sound the bongos, summon the stilt puppets, bring forth the crudely lettered, incomprehensible signs. All regardless of the fact that Hope and Change® have come to town, they are back!
In This Thread, you must summon your admiration for Teh Awesome represented by the heaving throngs of aimless, inchoate, under-educated and ill-led who [...]
It ought to hurt to be this stupid.
We saluted former Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer for his heroism in Afghanistan, boldly charging into a kill zone not once but five times to rescue his threatened and fallen friends and allies. You might have thought you’d learned all you needed to know about the man right there and then.
But you’d be mistaken:
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Most pilots of complex piston singles have had the “GUMP” landing checklist drilled into them by their instructor: “G” – gas selector to fullest tank, “U” – undercarriage down, – “M” – mixture rich (or best power), and “P” – prop full increase. Your plane may or may not have other checklist items to [...]
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