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• Review: Genius Defense Force

  
  App Advice — Authority: 155
  Overview We gave you a sneak peek of Genius Defense Force, and now that it’s in the App Store for $0.99, let’s see how it rates. The Good Genius Defense Force is a definite unique take, which is a rare find in the App Store. Rather than using the usual gameplay mechanics, you use math. In the face of ...
  3 hours ago

• Major Nidal Hasan IS a Terrorist

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 532
  The Washingon Post relegates this embarrassing story to the Saturday pages—dumping it on Friday night, no less. Whenever there’s something that the government wants to get out, they dump it on a Friday afternoon or evening. It doesn’t matter who’s running things. The media is complicit in this. The real ...
  3 hours ago

• Rand Paul: Try, Convict and Lock Up Terrorists In Guantanamo

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  For Immediate Release November 19, 2009 BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts. “Foreign terrorists do not ...
  3 hours ago

• Defense: Study claims number of US veterans who died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance was 14 times higher than US death toll in Afghanistan

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  The Global Report - According to a new study, the number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year.Published by i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysisSee also Sydney IrresistiblePutting ...
  6 hours ago

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report: Women’s Deployment Health Issue

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 154
  Medical Surveillance Monthly Report: Women’s Deployment Health Issue (PDF; 2.1 MB) Source: Armed Forced Health Surveillance Center Main Articles Health of women after deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom, active component, U.S.Armed Forces Medical evacuation for suspected ...
  8 hours ago

• Ponzi scheme hits home in South Florida

  
  Pro Press Release — Authority: 140
  Ponzi schemes have been around for over one hundred years; however, since the Bernie Madoff scandal erupted and thousands of investors were defrauded of billions of dollars, this has become more of a household phrase, affecting many “average” Americans. More recently, the South Florida community was shocked to ...
  8 hours ago

• Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 145
  angry tapir writes "Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious ...
  9 hours ago

• Obamas Eric Holder "Caught In A Trap" On Enemy Combatant Question

  
  POLITICAL POLICY — Authority: 126
  In the above video Sen. Lindsay Graham,R-SC , during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Obama Justice depts. decision to try the five 9/11 terrorists in a civilian trial, gave Obamas illustrious Attorney-General Eric Holder a real grilling on Capitol Hill. Holder could have made good use of his bosses ...
  10 hours ago

• Indiana Homeowner Holds Burglar at Gunpoint until the Police Arrive

  
  LearnAboutGuns.com — Authority: 425
  As reported, an Indianapolis, IN homeowner held a burglar at gunpoint until the police arrived. Police say that the burglar, who was armed with a screwdriver, broke in to a home on the southwest side of Indianapolis late Monday night and began rummaging around.  The homeowner reportedly grabbed his self defense gun, ...
  11 hours ago

• Tips To Help You Avoid Crime

  
  Guardian Self Defense Online Blog — Authority: 119
  Crime can happen at any given time and in any given place. The one thing about crime is that it does not discriminate. None of us are immune to it and if you think so your actually much more likely to fall victim. There are some key things you can do that will drastically reduce your chance of becoming a statistic. ...
  11 hours ago

• Swindlers’ Waltz to the Sounds of a Crash

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 131
  Government officials, perhaps influenced by spending too much time with bankers, forgot that if you want to govern effectively you have retain the trust of the people. And by treating the financial industry — which got us into this mess in the first place — with kid gloves, they have squandered that trust. ...
  11 hours ago

• Names of the Dead

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The Department of Defense has identified 4,355 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 909 who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.
  12 hours ago

• U.S. May Add Money to Program for F-35 Jet

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The Pentagon is considering providing more planes for flight tests to try to reduce the possibility of large cost overruns over the next several years.
  13 hours ago

• The Real Price of Trying KSM: Defense lawyers will inevitably create bad law

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  Sometime in the next few months, a small group of experienced criminal-defense lawyers will be assigned to what is likely to be the case of a lifetime: the defense of admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or, to those enamored of sinister acronyms, KSM. Their work will not be easy, obviously. No jury on ...
  13 hours ago

• World Briefing | The Americas: Canada: Court Orders Refugee Board to Consider ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in Army Deserter’s Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The Federal Court ruled Friday that a refugee board must consider the treatment of homosexuals by the United States military when examining the case of an Army deserter who is a lesbian.
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• World Briefing | Asia: Japan: U.S. Soldier Says He May Have Run Over Man

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  An American soldier has admitted that he may have run over a Japanese man who was found dead two weeks ago on the southern island of Okinawa.
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• World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: Fears of Militant Influx After Afghan Buildup

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Pakistan expressed fear that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into its territory and called on the United States to consider that concern as it develops its new war strategy.
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• Federal Judge Declares DOMA Unconstitutional

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 135
       Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has found a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.       Judge Stephen Reinhardt issued a ruling Wednesday in the case of In the Matter of Brad Levenson in which he declared that a key provision of the Defense of ...
  14 hours ago

• U.S. Reviews Air Defenses to Thwart Terror From Skies

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  I’m not sure how one can ever place a price tag on preventing another 9/11…or worse. The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack, an assessment aimed at determining whether the commitment of ...
  14 hours ago

• Carrie Prejean’s brother: ‘I’d watch her sex tape’

  
  mr tabloid — Authority: 158
  I never thought Id find myself feeling sorry for Carrie Prejean, but Jesus Christ. Via RadarOnline: Billy did come to his sisters defense once again:"It was from a cell phone, it was supposed to be totally confidential. I think...
  15 hours ago

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