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These Are Brutal Times For The West African Tourist Industry
THE last two years have been tough for tourism in Burkina Faso. An army mutiny in 2011 prompted foreign embassies to turn their travel warnings to red. Then in January this year, 37,000 refugees from...
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Lockheed Martin's New Killer Laser Puts Israel's Iron Dome To Shame [Video]
Using lasers for tracking objects through the sky has been possible for years, but there's never been anything like Lockheed's new laser defense system successfully tested last week.It's not that using...
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Jackie Chan Investigated For Taking On Triad Gang With 'Guns And Grenades'
Hong Kong police said they will investigate comments made by action star Jackie Chan that he had used guns and grenades to confront triad gang members.The Rush Hour star told the Guangzhou-based...
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Obama Is Going To Announce A Gun Violence Task Force Today
In the wake of last Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and seven others, President Barack Obama is expected to announce today the formation of...
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19 Unbelievable Facts About Guns In America
It’s hard to see a grown man cry. It’s even harder when that man is the president of the United States.Yet President Obama's emotion has been clear both times he's addressed the nation since the...
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There Are 15,000 More Gun Stores In America Than Grocery Stores
In case you are worried that guns haven't sufficiently permeated American culture, here are some startling facts compiled by Jack Date, Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan of ABC News.There are ~14,869 more...
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These Underground Shelters Are Perfect For Friday's Mayan Apocalypse
The prevalence of 'fall out' shelters in pop culture, indeed in culture itself, has seen a recent spike.Maybe it was the 2008 global economic crisis, or the deafening Apocalyptic talk of prominent...
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Lawyers Fighting NDAA Indefinite Detention Slam Congress' Latest Decision
A Congressional conference committee tasked with merging the House and Senate versions of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) decided to drop the Feinstein amendment, which ostensibly...
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This US Marine Has Decided To Stand Guard At His Kids' Public School
There were many obvious, knee-jerk reactions following the Sandy Hook massacre that took 26 people's lives.Guns. Godlessness. Video games. Violence in Hollywood. A lack of love. Mental health.Amid the...
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The F-35 Isn't Going Anywhere And The Pentagon Wants You To Know It (LMT)
Canada's announcement earlier this month that it was considering aircraft other than the F-35 for renewing its fleet seems to have prompted a string of reassuring moves by the U.S.Within days the...
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Three State Department Officials Resign After Benghazi Report Shreds Mission...
The new Accountability Review Board (ARB) report on the Sept. 11 Benghazi attacks reveals the multiple layers of failure that led to the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher...
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Russia Says This Military Hardware Is 'The Best In The World' [PHOTOS]
Funded by booming oil and gas profits, the Russian military is in the midst of a huge equipment upgrade, all backed by Putin's promise to increase its spending by $770 billion from 2014 to 2020.That's...
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It Is Incredible How Badly Libyan Security Forces Failed In Benghazi
The new Accountability Review Board (ARB) report on the Sept. 11 Benghazi attacks states that the loss of life and damage to U.S. property "rests solely and completely with the terrorists who...
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The US Military Wants To Execute One Of Its Own — But History Says It Won't...
When Robert Bales allegedly slipped from his quarters and murdered 16 Afghan civilians earlier this year, he was quickly charged and locked up in the U.S.The U.S. military announced today it does not...
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The New 'Cold War' Grows As Russian Parliament Passes Anti-US Bill
Today Russian lawmakers voted in a new law that banned the adoption of Russian children by American citizens, the New York Times. The broad scope of the law, however, is bringing with wider worries...
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FINALLY SOME SENSE: A 3D Printing Heavyweight Decides It's Not Necessary To...
We've previously reported on Defense Distributed, an organization that seeks to design and print fully-functional guns using 3D printers and share the digital files for them so others can do the...
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The NRA's News Broadcast The Night Of The Sandy Hook Shooting Was Grossly...
I recently criticized the National Rifle Association for allowing the host of their online radio show, Cam Edwards, to make grossly insensitive remarks on the night of the Sandy Hook school...
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One Of The Biggest Arguments For Stopping Iran's Nuclear Research Is Just...
Much of 2012 has seen a steady rise in tensions with regard to Iran's nuclear programme and its possible military dimensions. Iran has continued to increase its stockpile of 20%-enriched uranium,...
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These South Korean Christmas Lights Are Basically Flipping The Bird At Pyongyang
A South Korean church plans to display Christmas lights near the border with North Korea, military officials said Thursday, despite concerns about a violent response from Pyongyang.A Presbyterian...
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Gawker's Jaw-Dropping Robert Bork Obituary Has People Up In Arms
Yesterday's news of Robert Bork's death left most Americans with a vague recollection of the Supreme Court nomination he'd somehow lost out on, if anything at all.But Bork's death and legacy meant far...
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