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OMGoodness. I'm not generally a woman who drools at extremely hot men (publicly), but I honestly think that ripped and tattooed underwear model and Marine Alex Minsky won my heart with the photo of himself...
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Allen West seems to have gotten it in his head that whenever right-wing lunacy is brought to light, it's the fruit of liberal attempts to discredit the conservative movement. Just yesterday, I mentioned that West...
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    Let's say you're a senior news editor at a prestigious national newspaper. Let's say you're savvy, experienced, and have an intellectual capacity superior to that of, say, a pile of gravel. Now let's say that...
Bowe Bergdahl
      Almost from the time it was revealed that Bowe Bergdahl had been released from five years of captivity in a Taliban POW camp, he has been the target of a particularly ugly campaign to smear...
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// // With the smell of money and mid-term elections in the air, cuts in food stamp programs and the problems that the few so-called freeloaders cause is sure to be a recurring issue. But...
For most of the time since it was announced Bowe Bergdahl had been freed after over five years in a Taliban POW camp, critics both inside and outside the military have claimed that he deserted...
This story didn't get a lot of attention at the time and where the right-wing media picked it up at all, they naturally made a huge (negative) deal out of it. Given the daily torrent...
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// // Probably the most uncomfortable lesson some leftists and liberals had to learn during the Vietnam War was to separate the soldiers from the civilian military decision-makers. The stories of angry hippies spitting on...
    As I mentioned earlier this week, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) used the Memorial Day weekend news dump to call out the nation's major veterans service groups for not demanding that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki...
After surviving two successful tours in Iraq with the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, Isaac Sims, 23, was fatally shot. He was not killed overseas by enemy insurgents, but rather by a SWAT team in...
Jerry Boykin's official portrait, while he was still on active duty
    Ever since his 2003 speech in which he declared Islamists hate America because it's a Christian nation, Jerry Boykin has risen to become this country's most (in)famous "warrior for Jesus." He's currently the executive vice...
  Jonathan Montano went to the VA hospital Long Beach Loma Linda expecting to receive dialysis in 2011. Four hours later he left beaten and suffering a stroke which would eventually kill him Montano had grown impatient...
Richard Burr at a 2013 Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing (from committee Website)
  Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the ranking Republican on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, wasn't too happy that most of the nation's veterans service groups haven't demanded that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resign in the...
Allen West speaking at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference. (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Allen West has said a lot of outrageous things over the years. But if it were possible, yesterday he went too far--several times over. He actually had the gall to suggest that Tammy Duckworth's decision...
Drone delivered by UPS to reddit user
// // When Reddit user Seventy_Seven opened his door on Monday morning, he was shocked to see that the UPS had delivered to his home a $350,000 U.S. government drone addressed to him. When he posted...
// //   Photographer Sarah Lee has taken a photo series of army ration packs around the world. The project, commissioned by The Guardian, shows stark differences between various countries and highlights the diversity in food...
There aren't many tougher guys in the world than U.S. Marines. But watch what happens when they get together to watch a kid movie. Best part is at 2:25. Best. Thing. Ever. !!!!       ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiffany Willis is...
Getting this close to the controversial Area 51 --?a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base?in southern Nevada --?to take photos isn't easy. The man who took these photos used special cameras and equipment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The long...
The classic American imperialistic double-standard might lead one to believe that military drones flying over Lebanon and occasionally crashing near or into a school full of children is nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary,...
Imagine a kill rate of 22 American soldiers every day, day in and day out. If this were being done on foreign soil, we, as a country, would demand answers and justice. The Industrial War...