If you’re a big-P Patriot, you might not like Manning — neither Eli nor Peyton. But if you’re a small-p patriot, the Manning that gets up your nose is ickle Bradley, the toy-poodle-sized traitor with the rottweiler-sized ego. PFC Bradley Manning released hundreds of thousands of classified documents in an ill-advised attempt to conduct his …
Open wide! Here they come. You might want to arm yourself. In an attempt to use the coming budget sequester to force yet another tax hike, the Department of Homeland Security has released hundreds of illegal immigrants held for a variety of crimes — and is threatening to release 34,000 more. While most of the …
The expedition is one worthy of Shackleton or Scott: to cross Antarctica. On foot (well, with skis and snowshoes). In winter. But Sir Ranulph Fiennes, certainly the marquee name among the explorers, has had to withdraw. It was the simplest thing. He took his gloves off to repair a ski binding. But the ambient temperature …
As gadget-minded gun guys, we’ve followed the development of TrackingPoint’s precision-guided firearms with great interest. We received an email from TP today with some of their latest, including a video with a little bit about their testing procedures, and a slight tease about their development process. They don’t appear to use published or ammo-manufacturer ballistic …
Like this one, in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The victim was saved by fast-thinking and -acting firefighters from FDNY Engine Company 9: Ming Guang Haung, 28, was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly used a meat cleaver to hack and slash at his wife. “He pulls a cleaver out of his waistband and starts hacking at this …
Director Ridley Scott seems to do well in bringing nightmarish fictional dystopias to life, so he was an inspired selection for Jerry Bruckheimer and the producers of the movie version of Mark Bowden’s incredible non-fiction book,. After all, the parched arena of Gladiator or the nightmare society of Blade Runner are practically Disneyland compared to …
There’s only one Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and he has only one attitude to the nation’s veterans: To hell with ’em. We’ve recently seen how his cops and prosecutors threw a Marine in jail for gun possession, a very serious crime in NYC if you’re not a career criminal, who gets a pass. Then they threw …
First, we’ll warm up with the FBI. Then, we’ll single out a couple of recent disciplinary cases from ICE. From the Telegraph (UK): One male agent was sacked after police were called to his mistress’s house following reports of domestic incident. When officers arrived they found the agent “drunk and uncooperative” and eventually had to …
Since 1988, a few short maxims, the Special Operations Forces Truths, have distilled the essence of what SOF means, does and is. The irony is that they were not written by any of the many legendary special operators: we do not receive them as part of our inheritance from Bank and Volckmann, Yarborough or Singlaub. …
We recently discussed the future, if any, of the bayonet, a circa-15th-Century invention that turned a primitive musket into an even more primitive weapon, a pike. The death of the bayonet keeps being pronounced, and somehow the thing rises up as predictably as the bitten-bit actor in a summer zombie flick. Here’s a blast from …