Fairly long, but worth reading. From the Naval Institute "Proceedings" publication: 25 Years Later: We Came in Peace By Colonel Timothy J. Geraghty, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) In a Proceedings exclusive, the commanding officer of the Marine unit devastated by the suicide bombing of its barracks in Beirut recounts the horror of that October day 25 years ago and calls it a seminal event in the war against Islamist extremists. On Sunday morning, 23 October 1983, I awoke as usual at dawn, dressed,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush on the global war on terror: Port of Tampa Tampa, Florida 1:26 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. Thanks for the warm weather. (Laughter.) It's nice to be back here. I just came from MacDill, where I was talking to General Abizaid and General Brown, and one of the things that's clear is folks there at MacDill really do appreciate the support that the c...

Political Mudpit by Thanatos The Basement by Roman Clone A Christmas Buyer's Guide of Technology by Freddie Thema Devia by Elzabar Curia Sum-up by Caradog The Ethos, Mores, et Monastica by _Pontifex_ Editorials by The Black Prince and Freddie So here's what happened. I'm walking along, minding my own business, when suddenly I get a plastic bag shoved over my head and bundled into a car boot. They knock me out and I wake up hours later chained to a wooden chair in a dank and grimy dungeon somewhe...

This article is 6 years old and very long but I feel that it is a good read as it goes to great lengths to back up its points. http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intel...le.jsp?pid=244 As Germany's defeat loomed during the final months of World War II, Adolf Hitler increasingly lapsed into delusional fits of fantasy. Albert Speer, in his prison writings, recounts an episode in which a maniacal Hitler "pictured for himself and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire." The Nazi fuehr...

Letter from Iceland By Robert Jackson. Photographs by Bjarki Reyr November 14 2008 11:51 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66c87994-...?nclick_check=1 Think of Ireland. Rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, make it a third bigger and hang it like a pendant from the Arctic Circle. Crack open the earth’s crust below to release limitless supplies of geothermal steam, then fill its territorial waters, all 200 miles of them, with an abundance of cod. Give it a population of 300,000, about the same as Coventry, 70...