The M16 has a reputation for being unreliable. So does the M4. The standard army line is that if you properly maintain the M16 and M4 you will not have any problems. In other words, it’s all the soldiers fault.
This is ridicules. It is one thing to expect a solider to maintain his weapon Click Here to continue reading.
Sometimes my demographic worries embarrass me. Most of the people who worry about demographics are not people that I want to be associated with. But in spite of the bad company, I can’t but help worry that demographic changes are going to make life very interesting in the near future.
For a good example of Click Here to continue reading.
The most dangerous thing about an evil ideology is that it makes us think that we are justified in doing anything that opposes an evil ideology. We often forget how the evils of communism caused people to turn a blind eye to the evils of fascism. And how the evils of fascism caused people to turn a blind to the evils of communism.
There is not better example of how this moral blindness work’s then the young George Orwell. As this essay reminds us, young Orwell fought for a group of murderous communists in the name of freedom.
The Chieftain of Seir’s essay “On the Fear of Matches” is instrumental to my understanding of US policy in the Middle East. Since a lot of people find the Chief’s essays hard going, I thought I would spell out the basic points here.
(A) US sales of high tech weapons to Israel almost perfectly correlate Click Here to continue reading.
Remember when I wrote up a post on our local Muslim militia?
Well, read this from the Organized Crime in California Annual Report to the California Legislature 2005…..
Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JUF) is an international terrorist organization based in Pakistan. According to the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) 1998 Patterns in Global Terrorism, “Jamaat ul-Fuqra was established in Click Here to continue reading.
I seem to be on a “pick on the Grumpy Old Man” kick. So I think that I should stress that I read the Grumpy Old Man on occasion because I think he is unusually fair-minded for a political blogger.
But a recent statement that the Grumpy Old Man made left me wondering what in Click Here to continue reading.
I always find the current fuss over Iran and North Korea rather amusing. To a person of my limited education, it seems that if you could magically make Iran and North Korea go away you would only marginally increase the safety of the world.
And no, I am not a liberal. I don’t think that Click Here to continue reading.
If someone told you that there was a Moslem group that did military-type exercises near the reservoirs that supply much of New York City’s water you would probably think that it was some right-wing fantasy. But it happens to be true. The group calls themselves the Jamaat ul-Fuqra.
I first found out about this group Click Here to continue reading.
In this post, Jane Galt bemoans the fact that people in abortion debate are imputing motives to their opponents. In response, Ape man bemoans the fact that even if they perfectly understood their opponents it would not make any difference.
I don’t have the langue skills to check up on this, but this post claims that Belgium is going to ban the wearing of the numbers 18 and 88.
I can’t imagine how anyone with enough brains to keep their heart beating dares to purpose such a thing with a straight face.