Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks.
It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.
As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, [...]
Tags: Election · Military · Terrorism · The Right · The US
Early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. (Washington Dulles International Airport). The hijackers flew two of the airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the North and [...]
Tags: Money · Terrorism · The US
William Ayers, who was a founder of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground, said that he still believed he was “on the side of justice” years after the group’s wave of attacks.
Between October 1969 and September 1973, the Weather Underground claimed credit for some twenty bombings across the country, including courthouses, correctional [...]
Tags: Crime/Law · Election · Terrorism · The Left · The US
Lots of smart people are already covering this (on-the-rocks, Dr. Rusty Shackleford) but I’ll put in my two cents worth.
Says Rusty:
Associated Press photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.
A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah Naikzad seems to [...]
Tags: Absurd · Afghanistan · Dhimmitude · Islamofascism · Media · Muslim/Islam · Terrorism
From a little-read article on USAToday:
A judge in Ohio says the state’s method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state’s lethal injection procedure doesn’t provide the quick and painless death required [...]
Tags: Government · Terrorism · The Left
From the USAToday:
That’s the headline from the Toronto Star which is reporting that Marnina Norys, a 39-year-old Ph.D. student in Canada, was stopped by security and prohibited from wearing her necklace into the terminal.
Last week, security officials at Kelowna International Airport in British Columbia forced Norys to remove a silver necklace with a pendant in [...]
Tags: Absurd · Canada · Government · Guns · Terrorism
From the Washington Post:
After Linda Davies reported to police that her 15-year-old daughter had been raped, it took three months — plus two dozen phone calls and a threat of legal action — before police questioned the suspect, a 28-year-old neighbor.
“I gave police his name, address, mobile phone number, car registration — everything but his [...]
