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07.02.10

Cops & robbers.(Front Lines: WAR)(Afghanistan police)(Brief article)

The only good news about the Afghan police force we're training is that there's no need to worry about them using those shiny new AK-47s to drive out our occupying Army. They aren't good enough shots. Eight years and $6 billion later, "We are at zero," Captain Mohammad Moqim tells Newsweek. "They Publication: The American Conservative

02.08.10

Marvel Comics: Captain America Says Tea Parties Are Dangerous and Racist

Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who’ve joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is Cappy quaking in [...]

04.13.09

If this had happened six months ago ...

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Had the daring rescue of Maersk-Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips occurred while George W. Bush was in the Oval Office, I'm pretty certain that The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Democrat Underground, Daily Kos, and other points within the JournoList axis would be furiously posting headlines and discussions like these:

Mission Not Accomplished - Tugboat Hostages Remain Did Captain Phillips' Reckless Conduct Precipitate An Unnecessary Firefight?

04.13.09

In role reversal, the French become "cowboys"

This weekend, while the focus was on the hostage situation involving Captain Phillips, the French military rescued four French hostages, including a three-year-old boy, after President Sarkozy authorized a military attack on a French yacht that pirates had seized in the Gulf of Aden a week earlier. The rescued hostages were all unharmed, but another hostage, the skipper of the yacht, was killed.

04.13.09

True Heroes

12:03 AM, Easter Sunday, Southeast Houston - The 911 call was like many that came before it and which would follow; a simple but dangerous house fire. Station 26 dispatched two trucks, as normal.

12:07 AM - A four-minute trip and the firemen arrive at a single-story brick home at Oak Vista and De Leon streets, among them Captain James Harlow and rookie firefighter Damion Hobbs, recently returned to the US from serving a tour in Iraq with the US Army.