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December 2011

November 2011

29 Nov: Supreme Court Declines To Hear Masciandaro Case
28 Nov: Legalization Of Drugs Won't End The Border War
27 Nov: Border War
24 Nov: Thanksgiving 2011
23 Nov: Negligent Discharges
18 Nov: Advanced Hypersonic Weapons: Has a New Age of Remote Warfare Arrived?
16 Nov: Obama Administration's New Push To Regulate Shooters
15 Nov: Feels Like 1939 All Over Again: Painful Choices with Iran
14 Nov: Taliban Massing of Forces Part IV
13 Nov: Stupid Evangelical Tricks
7 Nov: Concerning Killing Bin Laden
7 Nov: Unsecured Pakistani Nuclear Weapons
4 Nov: Attacking Iran: The Ultimate Election Year Distraction?
2 Nov: News So Bad It Has To Be True: Iran Already Has Nukes (Time for Plan B)
1 Nov: Lanny Breuer: "Very Few People Need Semiautomatic Weapons Or Long Guns"

October 2011

31 Oct: Sheriff: "Carry a concealed weapon -that'll fix it!"
31 Oct: U.S. Foreign Policy Triumphs Again! Turkey Fills the Vacuum In Iraq
30 Oct: Concerning Taliban Sanctuary in Pakistan
28 Oct: Another Foreign Policy Triumph: Pakistan Gets Free Pass to Shell U.S. Troops
27 Oct: Exit From Iraq
25 Oct: Analysis Of Brief For The U.S. In Opposition to Sean Masciandaro
23 Oct: U.S. Warning to Iran
20 Oct: Get tough strategy with Pakistan?
19 Oct: Solicitor General Responds to Sean Masciandaro
18 Oct: Men, Not Machines, Win Wars
17 Oct: Drones and the War Against Militant Islam: Useful Tool or Game Changer?
15 Oct: Heller Versus D.C. Before The Circuit Court Of Appeals (Assault Weapons Ban)
14 Oct: Grenade Walking
11 Oct: Mexican Cartels Are Warlords and Insurgents
10 Oct: The Lies of the Brady Campaign
9 Oct: If the CIA built an intelligence network, SOF could do the job
6 Oct: Transparency Will Be The Touchstone Of This Presidency
4 Oct: The AR is a Legitimate Home Defense Weapon
2 Oct: Border Security and Potemkin Solutions
1 Oct: The End Of The ATF As We Know It?

September 2011

30 Sep: Iran Trumps Up Charges Against Youcef Nadarkhani
30 Sep: Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S. Citizen, Killed in Yemen?
29 Sep: Daniels Tells GOP Candidates to Man-Up: Pot Officially Calls Kettle Black
28 Sep: Failure in Obama's Foreign Policy
27 Sep: Texas Border Security: A Strategic Military Assessment
26 Sep: Taxpayer Dollars Used To Purchase Weapons for Mexican Cartels
26 Sep: Any Spooks Left in the CIA Attic? Aiding the Syrian Army Defectors
25 Sep: Striking a Deal with the Haqqanis
24 Sep: The Wrong Way To Argue For Gun Rights
22 Sep: Pakistan, And Why I Hate The Presidential Debates
22 Sep: The Feeble Superhero: Pakistan Freely Tugs on Superman's Cape
22 Sep: Note to Warren Police Department: You Suck!
20 Sep: Massive Corruption in the U.S. Border Patrol?
19 Sep: Night Raids, Prisons, Politics and the Afghanistan Strategy
19 Sep: Secret Recordings In Gunwalker Case
15 Sep: If The Zombies Attack Me, Will The Police Shoot Into The Crowd?
14 Sep: Haqqani Fighters Bomb Kabul
14 Sep: Man Who Shot Grizzly Bear Defending His Family is Fined
13 Sep: Is That A Threat Or A Promise? Saudis Warn Against U.S. Veto of Terror State
12 Sep: Rick Perry and the Progressives on Gun Control
11 Sep: Civilizational War 10 Years After 9-11: Can the West Recover?
11 Sep: Paul Krugman's Shame
10 Sep: Nostradamus Predicts Economic Rebound on November 7, 2012
8 Sep: Federal Court: No Right To Carry Concealed Handgun
7 Sep: Swedish Gun Control Coming To The U.S.?
6 Sep: Afghan National Police Defections
5 Sep: The Moral Case Against SWAT Raids
5 Sep: Enabling Catastrophe: the NYT Serves Up Denial

August 2011

31 Aug: New Approach in the Pech River Valley?
30 Aug: NATO Rushes To Seal Afghan Border
30 Aug: Romney Set To Attack Perry In South Carolina
29 Aug: Obama Allows Mexican Police To Violate U.S. Sovereignty
29 Aug: Bill Keller's Idiotic Questions
28 Aug: Revisiting the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms
26 Aug: Man Kills Grizzly, Fights For His Freedom In Court
25 Aug: Nuristan, Kunar, Pakistan and the Taliban: The Nexus
23 Aug: Brady Campaign Lies About Guns
19 Aug: Rick Perry's Enemies Turn To Insults
17 Aug: CIA Operatives Engaged in War on Mexican Cartels
16 Aug: ATF Promotes Supervisors Of Fast And Furious Gunrunning Scandal
16 Aug: The Taliban And Al Qaeda Are The Same
11 Aug: Was The CIA Behind Operation Fast And Furious?
10 Aug: The Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi Movement
9 Aug: Mexican Drug Cartels Adopting Military Tactics
8 Aug: SAPI Plate Saves Another Soldier
7 Aug: Preparing for Defense Budget Cuts
7 Aug: Liberals and the Use of Violent Rhetoric: Sticks and Stones to Follow?
3 Aug: How's That Democracy Thing Working For You? Egypt and the U.S. Face Reality

July 2011

31 Jul: Battle Rages in D.C. Over Debt Ceiling: Time for Usual G.O.P. Surrender
28 Jul: Iran Aids Al Qaeda
27 Jul: Expansion of Mexican Drug Cartel's Area of Influence
27 Jul: Councilman Alan Schulman's Anti-Gun Rant
26 Jul: Naming Names in Operation Fast and Furious
25 Jul: The Great Decline of 2011
25 Jul: Christianity And Self Examination In Light Of the Norway Killings
21 Jul: Cops Behaving Badly
20 Jul: Dakota Meyer to Receive Congressional Medal of Honor
19 Jul: Justice Department Trying To Shield Officials in Gun Scandal
18 Jul: Police Designated Marksman?
17 Jul: Iranian Snipers in Afghanistan?
14 Jul: Interpreting and Analyzing Project Gunrunner
13 Jul: British Soldiers Told Not To Shoot IED Emplacers
12 Jul: Congressman Bilirakis Questions Holder On Tampa ATF Office Gunwalker Allegations
12 Jul: Gunrunner Comment of the Day
12 Jul: How Democracy Crumbles: Implosion of the Jury System
11 Jul: Tampa ATF Office Gunrunner Coverup
10 Jul: General Rod's War
6 Jul: Surprise July 4 Kenneth Melson Deposition to Congress

June 2011

29 Jun: Obama Defends Holder in Gunrunner Scandal
29 Jun: Defendant's Attorney Seeks Discovery in Project Gunrunner
28 Jun: The Hard Lessons Keep Coming: Iran's Leap in Missile Technology
28 Jun: ATF's Kenneth Melson to Testify Before Congress
27 Jun: Project Gunrunner Update: FoxNews, LA Times and Washington Post
24 Jun: COP Honaker Miracle in Kunar
23 Jun: Washington Post Wrong On Issa Knowledge Of Project Gunrunner
21 Jun: Gunrunner Investigation Points Much Higher Than ATF Director
20 Jun: The Taliban Strategy of Nuristan
20 Jun: Because The TSA Can't Compete
20 Jun: Replacing Kenneth Melson At ATF Is Not Enough
17 Jun: The Deepening Project Gunrunner Scandal
16 Jun: Mark Steyn and the Perfect Summary of 21st Century American Frustration
15 Jun: Alcohol Use and Gun Ownership
14 Jun: Senators Feinstein, Schumer and Whitehouse on Halting U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico
14 Jun: When It Comes to Pakistan, We Just Can't Handle the Truth
12 Jun: Cost Cutting Ideas for the Federal Government
12 Jun: The Horrible, Horrible Afghan National Army
11 Jun: Gates Indicts NATO While U.S. Stands in the Dock
8 Jun: Department of Education SWAT Raid on Kenneth Wright
7 Jun: Can the Afganis Do Logistics?
7 Jun: Game Over? Iran Within "Weeks" of Nuclear Weapon
6 Jun: The Long Term Effects Of Prisons In Counterinsurgency
5 Jun: Taliban Cross-Border Raid Into Pakistan
5 Jun: Sheriff Dupnik Speaks on the Jose Guerena SWAT Raid
2 Jun: Muslim Brotherhood Intends to Implement Sharia Law in Egypt
2 Jun: New Details on the Jose Guerena Raid
1 Jun: Friends, Relationships and Changes

May 2011

April 2011

27 Apr: NRA Will Oppose Obama Re-Election
26 Apr: Obama's April 13 Speech: No We Won't!
25 Apr: The Great Escape - in Afghanistan!
20 Apr: Because Prisons Work So Well In Counterinsurgency
18 Apr: Obama on Passover
18 Apr: Struggle For Supremacy In Space: Chinese ASAT Tests
17 Apr: Getting the Narrative Right on Southern Afghanistan
15 Apr: Al Qaida Closer to Nukes? Don't Bother Telling Anyone
12 Apr: Taliban: One Day We Will Reach The Gates Of America
12 Apr: TSA Gropes Little Girl
11 Apr: Concealed and Open Carry on College Campuses
7 Apr: Al Qaeda Makes a Comback in the Pech Valley
6 Apr: Powerline Blog Calls It Quits On Afghanistan
5 Apr: Fighting in Barawala Kalet
4 Apr: Rapidly Collapsing U.S. Foreign Policy III
4 Apr: Democrat Response to Rep. Ryan Spending Cuts: Burn The Witches!
3 Apr: I Renewed My NRA Membership Today

March 2011

29 Mar: Taliban Massing of Forces Part III
29 Mar: The Pitiful Rolling Stone
28 Mar: "Nightmare" Budget Scenario From NY Times: The Sum of Liberals' Fears
27 Mar: Philadelphia G.I. Cop Deranged Over Open Carry
22 Mar: Must We Engage In Nation Building?
22 Mar: The G.O.P. And the Federal Budget: Piecemeal Approach Is The Key
21 Mar: Status of the Fukushima Reactor Accidents Part II
21 Mar: Pop-Centric COIN Revisited
20 Mar: Marines do not bleed!
17 Mar: Status of the Fukushima Reactor Accidents
16 Mar: Further Degradation of Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool
16 Mar: Crises, Crises Everywhere (and not a President to be found)
15 Mar: Operations Suspended at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant?
15 Mar: Spent Fuel Pool Fire At The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant?
14 Mar: Primer for Studying News Releases on the Japanese Reactor Accidents
14 Mar: To Act or Not to Act? Libya is the Question
13 Mar: Amelioration of Battle Space Weight and Women in Combat
12 Mar: When Mullahs Misbehave: Iran Smuggles Rockets, U.S. Winks
10 Mar: The Difficulty of Afghanistan
7 Mar: Connecting the Dots: The Muslim Brotherhood And Middle East Unrest
7 Mar: Afghan Prison An Insurgent Breeding Ground
2 Mar: Population-Centric Counterinsurgency: Abandoning the Pech Valley Part III
2 Mar: Obama's Thin Foreign Policy Gruel: The Taste of Ron Paul Isolationism?

February 2011

28 Feb: McChrystal, SOF Raids and Now Zad
27 Feb: Yon Returns to Afghanistan
27 Feb: The Rehabilitation of the Muslim Brotherhood
24 Feb: Elite Schools and the ROTC
24 Feb: Shot at Sirajuddin Haqqani Passed Up Due To Rules of Engagement
23 Feb: Must-See TV: Allen West Slams Islamist Propanganda
22 Feb: NYT Changing Tune on Afghanistan? Are Fairies Real?
22 Feb: Mother Suspended From Work for Taking Call From U.S. Marine Son in Afghanistan
21 Feb: The Long War?
20 Feb: Gates Pleads for Funds for State Department Work in Iraq
20 Feb: U.S. Assessing Response to Pirating of Quest
18 Feb: The National Debt and A Loan Shark Named China
17 Feb: Reprimands in Marine Deaths in Ganjgal Engagement
15 Feb: Happy, Clappy Democracy in Egypt
15 Feb: Austrian Court Enforces Sharia
15 Feb: The Pirates are Winning
14 Feb: San Diego Port Authority: Homeland Security Has Got No Clothes!
13 Feb: The Navy in Asadabad?
13 Feb: Ambush and Fire Fight
11 Feb: Lights Out On U.S. Foreign Policy? “The Clapper” and the Muslim Brotherhood
10 Feb: Mythical Sharia - Or Not
10 Feb: Abandoning the Pech Valley Part II
8 Feb: Taking Down Taliban Spotters in Kandahar
8 Feb: Showdown at the Karzai Korral: By-Passing the Karzai Government
4 Feb: U.S. Agrees to Divulge British Nuclear Secrets to Russia
3 Feb: The Battle for Bomb Alley
2 Feb: Marine Corps to Secretary Gates: We're Relevant!

January 2011

31 Jan: Egypt And A Third Way In American Foreign Policy
30 Jan: The Marines in Sangin
30 Jan: Concerning the Rebellion in Egypt
29 Jan: Help Wanted Fixing Budget Deficit (Spineless Need Not Apply)
28 Jan: When All Your Friends Are Authoritarians: Obama "Ratchets Up" Pressure On Egypt
27 Jan: Let Him Who Has No Gun Sell His Robe and Buy One
27 Jan: Obama Administration to Press for Gun Control
25 Jan: Sharia is Coming!
25 Jan: AP-GM Love Fest: Govt Motors Meets Govt Press
24 Jan: Short Term Thinking and Long Term Failure in Afghanistan
23 Jan: Second Amendment Challenge
21 Jan: Bankruptcy for States? A Defining Moment for America
20 Jan: The Bienart Approach: Spreading Democracy By Neglect
19 Jan: Prisons Do Not Work In Counterinsurgency
18 Jan: Legislation on High Capacity Magazines
16 Jan: It's Time to Engage the Caucasus Part II
15 Jan: Coolness Factor II
13 Jan: Afghans Wary of Building Up Local Policing Forces
11 Jan: Changing the Support to Infantry Ratio in Afghanistan
11 Jan: Obama's Smart Diplomacy with Great Britain
8 Jan: National Internet IDs
6 Jan: Abandoning the Pech Valley
3 Jan: Assigning Blame in the Battle of Wanat
2 Jan: The Second Amendment in the Carolinas
2 Jan: Afghanistan: Large Footprint or Small?
2 Jan: The End Of Russian Democracy?
2 Jan: North Korean Nuclear Blustering

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