For almost 40 years, the M-16 5.56mm combat rifle, in all its incarnations, has served as the United States military’s primary battle rifle. To give you an idea of how long a time that is, the only other long gun with a similar tenure is the .58 caliber Brown Bess musket — which entered service [...]
Sours a big civil right celebration, embarrasses Kweisi Mfume and other dignitaries.
Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal,” he said Monday night. “These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids - $500 sneakers for what?
“And they won’t spend $200 for ‘Hooked on Phonics.’ [...]
The Depressive and the Psychopath : At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. By Dave Cullen
Five years ago today, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School. Most Americans have reached one of two wrong conclusions about why they did it. The first conclusion is that [...]
To the average person, the connotations of the word “Pornography” have always brought forth a mental picture of a depraved person leering at filthy pictures. To the scholar, the word meant simply “The description of prostitutes and their trade”. Later other definitions were added, attempting to encompass the term “obscene”. We now consider Webster’s “Writing [...]
There are enough lurid photos to drip feed them 1 or 2 at a time onto the frontpages for 50 years.
They are losing their effectiveness and after the Berg slaughter, no longer shocking.
Predictably alarmist elements close to me are predicting “revenge”. One colleague predicted they - Al Qaeda - will use them as [...]
The guy who took this picture is an US soldier who has a photolog called CannonFodder. You have to love this guy. An admirer in his forums asks him “Do you have any good blogs to suggest of 11b’s over there?” and this is the reply old Cannon gives:
well as for blog i think that [...]
I am convinced that the Psy-Ops people in Iraq are under new management. Since mid-April the media have suddenly been full of reports about enemy dead. Every day now I read about massive enemy casualties. This is a smart move. It lends perspective to the situation and shows that for every coalition soldier killed, [...]
A driver murdered in an apparent road rage stabbing was named tonight as 22-year old Armando Gjikaj.
Mr Gjikaj, of Felbrigge Road, Seven Kings, east London, who is thought to be Kosovan, was brutally beaten, knifed and had his head “kicked around like a football”.
It followed a minor traffic accident, described by detectives as a “small [...]
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“”Although some choice is undoubtedly better than none, more is not always better than less….They found that increased choice and increased influence have been accompanied by a decrease in well-being.” We know too much choice troubles children but it appears that it troubles adults too.
Because free will is the very thing that makes us [...]
All good people agree
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They.
–Rudyard Kipling
“We and They”
The term “political correctness” is such a familiar piece of moral shorthand that it is easy to forget that the phrase has been with us for only about a dozen years. “John or Mary [...]