Alternative to Virtual Strip Searches & Groping: How About PROFILING Terrorists & the Free Market?

As the revolt grows against the police-state type tactics now being employed at America’s airports, some alternatives to this insanity which have been proposed for years are now being heard during prime time on Fox News. The general tone on Bill O’Reilly’s show has shifted a great deal just since last week when he had [...]

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Land of the Free, Home of the Brave OR a Nation of (Naked) Sheep?

“Somebody, somewhere, needs to shake us from this stupor of blind policy and blind obedience. I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t some test — a test of just how stupid Americans are. If TSA said that from now on we had to hop on one foot while humming “God Bless America,” would we do [...]

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Video: US Marines (3rd Battalion 1st Marines Iraq Fallujah 2004). And then it gets interesting…

This started as a simple video post to my personal blog, but then somehow leftist politics intruded… Best video I think I’ve seen so far, MarineGirl85 added this to YouTube several years ago, but it got yanked for copyright infringement until recently when the label figured out it could actually sell songs on iTunes by [...]

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Finally a Medal of Honor winner receives the award and lives to tell the tale

The list of Medal of Honor recipients is full of awardees who received their award posthumously, as the Medal of Honor itself as described doesn’t easily lend itself to the living [my emphasis]; Sec. 578.4 Medal of Honor. (a) Criteria. The Medal of Honor, established by Joint Resolution of Congress, 12 July 1862 (amended by [...]

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Why Did Attorney General Jon Bruning’s Office Give $50k To Cleaner Greener Lincoln?

By Shelli Dawdy In a very bizarre twist to end this week, I discovered that two seemingly unrelated areas of concern and interest have converged. Immediately following the election, there were two announcements regarding Nebraska’s Senate seat currently held by Ben Nelson, whose term expires in 2012. Governor Heineman announced that he will not be [...]

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Air Traffic Controller Urges Collegues to “Stand Firm” Against Naked Body Scanners, Grope Searches

Naked body scanners and grope searches. An open letter to the Presidents of the Airline Pilots Association, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. (Letter was addressed and adjusted to th...

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