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MILINET:A Marine's Eye-View Of Baghdad--SgtMaj Jack Du Bois,USMC (Ret.) Thought you may be interested in my fast trip to Baghdad to see if all was ok or if the news was being cautious about its condition. I am happy to report that all is OK in Baghdad and the news media is not reporting it's currant condition. As I entered Baghdad I saw a bunch of people with German Shepherd dogs along the road. This explained the fine condition of the road. These bomb sniffing dogs keep the bombs at bay and the road was in excellent shape. As I...

An eyewitness has come forward in the case of the American who was allegedly attacked by Mexican pirates to claim he saw the man's panicked wife as she fled to the American side of the lake. "I saw the Jet Ski come around an island," the witness told "Good Morning America." "There was something wrong actually. The way I saw her come around it looked like something terribly wrong happened. I mean, she was jittery, frantic. ... She was crying, sobbing."

Many commentators on the U.S. left have tried to minimize the significance and importance of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, made famous by writer James Simpson and TV personality Glenn Beck. According to Simpson and Beck, Columbia University sociologists, husband and wife team Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, devised a strategy in the early 1960s, to crash the U.S. economy and bring on socialist revolution by deliberately overloading state welfare rolls to the point of bankruptcy. Many on the left regard this hypotheses as gross exaggeration at best, deliberate misrepresentation at worst. [caption id="attachment_732" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Richard A. Cloward"][/caption] Cloward and...

OGDEN -- A report of a fireball in the sky and a veiled threat from a mysterious man in a dark suit could aid a lawyer's dogged quest to prove a former Weber State ROTC instructor was infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper. Galen Cook, a Spokane, Wash., attorney says he's found perhaps the only eyewitness to Cooper's daring parachute escape from a Boeing 727 more than 38 years ago into the dark abyss of the Pacific Northwest. Cook, who has been pursuing the Cooper case for more than two decades and is writing a book about his investigation, believes a woman...

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24 Hours Prior to Heller Case by Alan Korwin, Co-Author Supreme Court Gun Cases More people are on line in front of the U.S. Supreme Court for the D.C. gun ban case tomorrow than seats are available, and the temperature is hovering above freezing, but that's not stopping them. Bob Blackmer and I were the first to arrive, Sunday night about 5 p.m., answering the big question of -- Would two nights in advance be enough -- aside from did we have endurance to pull that off. A few moments later, Jason and Dan arrived from Pennsylvania with sleeping bags...

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2007 – “Muse of Fire,” a film that debuted here last night, uses American troops’ eyewitness accounts and private journals to bring to life the tragedy, pain, horror, death and even the hope and optimism of war. The documentary, shown at the National Archives, is a frank account of life on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan. “I wanted to show servicemembers who have sacrificed so much for us, not only to humanize them, but to show how they grew personally and how they turned into writers,” film director Lawrence Bridges said at the debut....

One week after several Vikings players held a lewd party on a Lake Minnetonka boat, two players were seen throwing trash in a dumpster at a construction site in Eden Prairie. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS obtained exclusive access to the trash - and the information it revealed. Bryant McKinnie and Mewelde Moore were seen throwing bags of trash in the dumpster. The eight bags contained what appeared to be remnants of a party, including aluminum tins of food, beer and champagne bottles, fireworks, disposable camera boxes, hallowed out cigars, something that looks like a marijuana bud, sexual and feminine hygiene products...

Thursday, September 1st, 2005 10:46 pm The Real News The following is the result of an interview I just conducted via cell phone with a New Orleans citizen stranded at the Convention Center. I don't know what you're hearing in the mainstream media or in the press conferences from the city and state officials, but here is the truth: "Bigfoot" is a bar manager and DJ on Bourbon Street, and is a local personality and icon in the city. He is a lifelong resident of the city, born and raised. He rode out the storm itself in the Iberville Projects...

It also covers some of the Clinton Administration. I recommended this book for all patriotic Americans to read.

: Friday, May 09, 2003 :: i am going thru my mail and and cleaning up the boxes. you can stop bothering diane with mail. i just hope she is not too upset with me. :: salam 12:06 PM [+] :: ... 5 US Dollars for a single hour of browsing. Talk about someone milking it, I wonder if they would let me pay for only half an hour. I am not complaining; I would not have believed anyone who would have told me a week ago that I will be able to browse at all. There are more of...

Sen. Lindsey Graham recently called our actions as Human Shields "treasonous" and hopes to see us punished for more than the ten years in jail and $1 million in fines that the law currently allows for. He said that we were "giving aid and comfort to the enemy." I was not comforting the enemy – I was comforting the Iraqi people. The only aid that I provided was construction paper and crayons for children, and I did so fairly confident that they would not be used to make weapons of mass destruction. Opposing this war is not treasonous. When I...

The bus had left Tel Aviv bound for the town of Tiberias at 0550 local time (0250GMT) - most of its passengers were soldiers returning to their bases. About 90 minutes later, when it was near the Meggido junction, the bus was reduced to scrap after a car packed with explosives was detonated next to it. I saw a vehicle just in front of us. Then I heard the explosion and everything was fire and smoke," soldier Anton Borodnik said speaking in hospital. "I kicked the door open with another soldier. I pulled my girlfriend off and then went back...