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This is a euphenasia bill that liberals here in California are proposing is a slippery slope. Next the government will extend measures like these to infants, or the disabled. In the Netherlands peoples families dont have a say in the process, only the doctors do. For a we know in a few years the left will demand that people with any form of physical disability at birth or during life should be put down like cattle "to help ease their pain" This is basically showing that what the Nazis did 60 years ago can somehow rear its ugly head and...

After just watching a feature movie on the Sundance channel about the atrocities that occured in Rwanda 10 years ago this week i was wondering who should be held accountable and at fault. Is it a racial issue? Should Clinton, the UN, and the rest of the UN security council be held accountable? Why is it that in Rwanda when it was blacks killing blacks no one raised a finger. However, in Bosnia pale skinned blonde haired blue eyed people were being butchered and Clinton lobbed cruise missles before a security measure was even passed through the UN. The whole...

I had a question for everyone. Did anyone notice how Showtime's "The Regans" (or whatever the heck the name was of that horrible movie) portray Ronald Regan as a bumbling old fool who is in such a demented state that he doesnt even realize hes president. Then showtime airs "Fidel", which i took a glance at, and Fidel Castro, a ruthless villan, is portrayed as a modest man just trying to help "the people" live better in Cuba. Parts of the movie try to get people to reason with Castro, as if the man makes any type of sense. What...

Apparently, I was one of the few Californians listening to Monday’s debate between Governor Gray Davis and GOP nominee Bill Simon. I tried hard to find a replay on television that evening but couldn’t locate one anywhere. Late night TV news coverage was scanty. This must have been the least noticed gubernatorial debate in state history. (Simon’s campaign has posted the debate online. To see it, go to: http://www.simonforgovernor.com/emailresponse.php?353) Which, of course, was Davis’s strategy: hold the debate on a local TV station, mid-day, when people are working. No major networks would give up prime, evening air time for a...

Marine Lt.Gen. Emil Bedard recently stated: "The kind of fire support that the Marines need for maneuver ashore in the littorals is not the tactical Tomahawk, it's the kind that comes from a gun. We don't have it…We have a hard requirement for a gun. We are not going to fall off that requirement." Despite the Navy's successful firing of Alliant Techsystems' (ATK) 5-inch autonomous naval support round (ANSR) to a range of 51 nautical miles, its 25-pound-combined high explosive/tungsten fragments payload remains ineffective against tanks and other hard targets. Navy destroyer magazines are too small to stow a sufficient...

REACTIVATE THE IDEAL SHIPS FOR COUNTERING THE TERRORIST THREAT Two major, but easily remediable, deficiencies could severely handicap the Navy in the present war against terrorism, a war that could be waged against “nations, organizations or persons.” With the exception of landlocked Afghanistan, waging war against suspected nations would no doubt require forced entry from the sea, which in turn would depend on adequate tactical naval surface fire support (NSFS) -- which is also essential to our “defeat of anti-access strategy.” (Kosovo demonstrated how bad weather could wipe out air support.) The Marine Corps, the GAO and the Navy’s N764...

Monday, March 4, 2002 NN Volume 19, Number 10 Long-Range Guns Still Have A Place In The 21st Century War By Tracy A. Ralphs MAJ (P) USAR At a time when some defense analysts wonder whether the United States could go to war against Iraq today because it has exhausted its supplies of some types of precision-guided, high-tech, expensive munitions, a reserve officer makes the case that even in the 21st Century, there is a place in the contemporary theater of war for an old but formidable force, longrange guns, including those mounted on battleships. This is an excerpt from...

USS Wisconsin one of 4 IOWA Class ships left Associated Press New Jersey’s congressional delegation has reopened a battle among states and within the military over the future of the four battleships, including the USS Wisconsin that provided an intimidating and destructive presence in military conflicts from World War II through the Gulf War. The Delegation, which wants the USS New Jersey to become a tourist attraction at a pier in Bayonne, proposes scrubbing a provision that keeps the USS Wisconsin and another Iowa Class battleship in reserve. That proposal has rekindled a debate among active and former Navy officials ...