Kevin O’Brien Is there any headgear packed with more Francophile symbolism than the beret? The floppy wool hat was a shepherd’s cap, then the height of women’s fashion, and finally became a military “badge of courage, a mark of distinction” (to quote John Kennedy). The beret went to war in World War II, thanks to the Resistance …
Two flags, one nation; we tried that 1860-65, didn’t work. Some interesting facts alleged in this New York Times story. Yanukovych has fled to Moscow, and called on Russia to restore him to power. (Which seems to be almost a confession that he was a marionette for Putin all along). In the Crimea, ethnic Russians …
Good luck figuring this one out. But it seems like one suspect shot her boyfriend, the other suspect; then a deputy shot the lady crook. Bonnie and Clyde both went to the hospital, but they have a date — not with each other, but separate ones with the court system. BLISS – A Colorado man …
Weapons Themselves that Deserved a Post but… Why don’t the SEALs use Glocks, then? Here’s one that spent an unknown amount of time in a river, and then two years in a cop evidence locker without any maintenance. Then, they threw it in a Hornady sonic cleaner. As Hornady posted to Facebook: “This Glock 27 …
Wounded ATF agents leave the field. Waco, TX, 28 Feb 93. A huge ATF operation in Texas was meant to get a lot of media attention. And it did, just not the way the Bureau wanted. A raid that was planned for television effect was initiated with a rattle of suppressed fire as ATF agents …
OK, Jules’s blog, Forward Movement, which had two iterations (one as a chronicle of the invason of Iraq in 2003, and one as a more general-interest blog through 2008 or so) is long moribund, but one page occasionally gets updates, and it’s his book review and recommendation page. Most of these books are military history …
Nazis: beastly but fascinating. They caused the second most trouble and death of any revolutionaries in history (the Communists have pretty much retired that trophy for all time). They spread their evil ideology from the Pyrenees to the Caucusus. And, what’s probably the biggest source of their appeal, they had spiffy uniforms (with a tip …
Hey, they just deleted the records of the problem — including the records of vets who were queued up waiting for their appointments to ripen in the sun for seven years and more. VA Secretary Rick Shinseki: men follow him, but only out of morbid curiosity. Employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) destroyed …
ATF press release alert! Government-controlled Narodniy Politicheskiy Radio (NPR) published the following pearls of wisdom, which seem to have derpped right from the silver tongue of ATF’s notorious spokespersons onto the AP wire: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s inspector general is conducting a four-city examination into storefront undercover operations run by the Bureau of …
National Journal’s Ron Brownstein, in an unusual dual interview with governors Mary Fallin (R-OK) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO), served up a rather obvious question, and got a remarkable answer from Colorado: States are moving in very different directions on social issues like … gun control. Does this affect who wants to live there or locate …