Indian Navy Blows Pirates Out of the Water

This is how it’s done: The pirates had hijacked the Mozambique-flagged Vega 5 in December and had used it as a mother ship — a base from which they staged several attacks in the vast waters between East Africa and [...]

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Obama 2008: We’ll have “A New Level of Transparency…” – Today: “Transparawhat?”

The promise of increased transparency was one of the most appreciated ideas regarding Candidate Barack Obama.  Liberals were clamoring about the secrecy of the Bush administration, claiming they were being kept in the dark. That was going to change.  President [...]

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DC Diversity Commission Finds Military Leadership “Too White”

When it comes to killing the enemy as efficiently as possible, the importance of the diversity of your attack force cannot be underestimated.  I mean, you can’t go in and expect to conquer a bunch of people or clean a room if [...]

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Tsunami Victim Found Alive Nine Miles Out to Sea

This had to be one wile and amazing ride: A 60-year-old Japanese man was rescued Sunday more than nine miles out at sea after clinging to the swept-away remnants of his home for more than two days. “I thought today [...]

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Change: For Every Green Job Created, Four Others Are Lost

As noted before in Spain, the idea of an economic recovery based in green jobs not only fails to deliver, but proves Quinn’s first law: Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. In Spain, we learned: Every “green [...]

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Massachusetts Wants to Chip Your Gun Like You Chip Your Dog

There is now a committee in Massachusetts to study GPS tracking for firearms. They want to chip your gun like you chip your dog: And there you were, thinking that micro-stamping was the be-all, end-all of the government’s attempts to [...]

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Rep. Ted Poe: “You Don’t Take Beanbags to a Gun Fight” (Video)

Rep. Ted Poe is as aggravated as I am about the federal government requiring our Border Patrol to first fire non-lethal rounds at suspects before being allowed to actually fire bullets: The idea that when armed bandits invade the United States, our [...]

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Mexico Claims They Didn’t Know ATF Was Allowing Guns Across the Border

This could be a major league diplomatic situation, or this could be a bunch of Mexican politicians covering their hind ends, but members of the Mexican government say they knew the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were allowing [...]

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Rep. Giffords Has “made a tremendous amount of progress”

We have not heard much about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, what with the union folks in Wisconsin needing everyone’s attention, but it seems while we were distracted, she was busy being awesome: Giffords’ speech “is getting very good” and she “is [...]

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Awesome Photo Evidence of Tsunami Hitting West Coast

Awesome Photo Evidence of Tsunami Hitting West Coast

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Japan Quake was “hundreds of times larger” Than The 2010 Quake in Haiti, Moved Entire Island 8 Feet

Unreal: The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. “At this point, we know that one GPS station [...]

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Weekend Link Love: Neil Diamond Edition

Hot Air: Video: The Onion spoofs Hot Air theblogprof: Video of Rand Paul to Obama energy official: Why are you pro-choice on abortion but not on toilets and lightbulbs? The Pirate’s Cove: Battle: Los Angeles – The Review Say Anything: [...]

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Unintended Consequences: Dem Action May Result in $50 Cap on Debit Card Purchases

In order to deal with the evil banks and greed and other such buzzwords, the Democrats rammed through the Wall Street Reform Bill last year. You know the bill written by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, two of the architects [...]

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Released Audio Reveals How Cool Secret Service Actions Saved Ronald Reagan’s Life

When President Reagan was shot, no one in America knew how close he came to dying. The man lost half his blood. In an audio tape that has been released, you can hear how initially, no one realized Reagan had [...]

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