Standing 'Monkey Watch' Is Just One Rite Of Passage In The US Military
There is a very serious danger that poses a significant threat to the brave men and women serving in our naval fleet.Specifically, it's threatening those men and women whose daily life takes place upon...
View ArticleNBC Correspondent Richard Engel Has Been Freed From Kidnappers In Syria
Amid widespread concern yesterday, and calls for silence on the topic by NBC, Richard Engel, NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent has been freed from his Syrian captors.Engel and his team were captured...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Giant Cerberus Is Selling Gunmaker After Newtown Shooting
(Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management said on Tuesday it will immediately begin selling its investment in gunmaker Freedom Group in light of last week's school shooting in...
View ArticleThere's No Real Way To Tell How Many Guns Are Sold In America Each Year
If you want to find out exactly how many guns are sold in the US each year, then the figures are not recorded.However, if you want to know how many applications there are to buy guns each year, then...
View ArticleIn Case You Were Wondering Why So Many People Get Shot To Death In America...
Barry Ritholtz of the Big Picture posted the following chart, which measures a group of countries on guns-per-capita and homicides-by-guns.The vertical axis is guns per 100 people.The horizontal axis...
View ArticleMass Shooter Adam Lanza 'Spent Hours Playing Call Of Duty'
The Connecticut school massacre gunman Adam Lanza spent hours playing violent video games such as Call Of Duty in a windowless bunker, according to an interview with a plumber who worked at the family...
View ArticleThe Hedge Funds With The Biggest Stakes In Gun Manufacturers (SWHC, RGR)
Friday's tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut has renewed the debate on gun control in the U.S. and Obama has even pledged to use the power of his office to stop gun violence....
View ArticleNew Imaging System Could Make America's Stealth Technology Obsolete
The stealth technology of America's fifth-generation jet fighters, the F-22 and the F-35, could be obsolete after a new discovery from the University of Rochester in New York.One main goal of...
View ArticleIt's Now 'Almost Inevitable' That Syrian Rebels Will Acquire Chemical Weapons
As Syria's brutal 21-month civil war grinds on, the likelihood of the opposition seizing control of a chemical weapon stockpile or manufacturing site is increasing as rebel groups gain more...
View ArticleGoogle Earth Satellite Catches This Drone Mid-Flight Over Nevada
Dronestagram creator and London artist James Bridle recently noticed that a Google Earth satellite caught a drone in flight at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.Creech is host to a smorgasbord of Air...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Play One Of Adam Lanza's Favorite Video Games
In the wake of the horrific, tragic shootings at Sandy Hook school last week, some people have suggested that our culture of super-violent video games are at least partially to blame.The Sandy Hook...
View ArticleInvisibility Cloak Allows Combat Vehicles To 'Disappear' And Change Shape
BAE Systems ADAPTIV invisibility cloak is getting some new attention online today after the University of Rochester announced its new quantum imaging tech.The following pictures are from a BAE Systems...
View ArticleAfrica Is Such A Mess That Ben Affleck Is Actually Testifying In Congress
Things have gotten so bad in Africa that Ben Affleck is actually going to testify in front of Congress' Armed Services Committee, Jeremy Herb of The Hill reports.Affleck, star of the movie "Argo" and...
View ArticleAll Signs Point To An Epic Catastrophe In Mali
Both a Mali expert and a confidential UN report project that every plausible scenario regarding the turmoil in Mali will turn out poorly.Al-Qaeda-backed rebels are already running a drug trafficking...
View ArticleENDING SOON: Subscribe To A Newsletter For A Chance To Win An iPad Mini
Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini. Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet. If you're the lucky winner...
View ArticleThe Antipsychotic Prescribed To Adam Lanza Has A Troubled History All Its Own
By now the whole country is fully embroiled in the Gun Control debate, spurred by the grisly murder of 27 people, mostly kids, at the Sandy Hook Elementary school last Friday.Guns might not be the only...
View ArticleThe Terrifying Story Of NBC Correspondent Richard Engel's Syrian Abduction
NBC Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and his crew were driving through what they believed was rebel controlled territory last Wednesday when 15 armed men in ski masks ambushed them.The Syrian...
View ArticleThe NRA Doesn't Know When To Keep Its Mouth Shut
While the National Rifle Association went silent over social media following the Sandy Hook school massacre last week, the organization continued to broadcast over its Internet station NRA News, Dylan...
View ArticleStep Inside The Underground Apocalypse Shelters That Will Save A Few Lucky...
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...
View ArticleHere's Why An Assault Weapons Ban Won't Work
Barack Obama is likely to put forward yet another attempt to regulate weapons through one ban or another.Assault weapons bans are notoriously porous and easy for manufacturers to skirt by making slight...
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