Forget Sequestration: Lockheed Scored Another $7 Billion To Get The Aging...
The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $6.9 billion to upgrade the service’s fleet of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters.Lockheed...
View ArticleThe US Navy Is Finally Moving Ships Back To The Philippines To Counter China...
The U.S. Navy has recently begun moving ships to Asia to address the growing tension between China and Japan and other Asian countries.As the Navy began this redeployment last year, most senior...
View ArticleTop Central Banker In China Says Beijing Is Ready For The 'Currency War' To...
A top Chinese banker said Beijing is "fully prepared" for a currency war as he urged the world to abide by a consensus reached by the G20 to avert confrontation, state media reported on Saturday.Yi...
View ArticleReader Who Bought Huge Arsenal Of Guns Online Gets His IP Blocked—And Thinks...
Recently we posted a set of Uzi pictures that a reader sent us. The reader bought the weapon at a gun show, and as far as we know followed all state and federal laws.The response from other readers was...
View Article'Anonymous' Hacker Explains Why He Fled The US
Anonymous is front and center these days: the amorphous hacktivist group has been publishing internal data of U.S. banks while prominent members are prosecuted on charges of stealing information and...
View ArticleChuck Hagel Speaks The Truth, And That's Why People Hate Him
The shortest distance between two points is truth, and Chuck Hagel speaks it. That's the primary reason people hate him.Hagel definitely spoke truth in his recent speech about budgets, but lets start...
View ArticleThe Real Tragedy Of The Sequester Is Wasted Time
MATTHEW YGLESIAS has a counterintuitive take that the sequester is good policy for liberals, because most of the cuts are to defence spending, which is so grossly overdeveloped at this point that its...
View ArticleLove Letter To War Photographer Killed In Syria Leaves Journalist In Choked...
A BBC Radio 4 presenter was so overcome by emotion that he fell silent on air for more than ten seconds today after hearing a moving poem by the girlfriend of a French photographer killed in...
View Article'Shocking' Holocaust Study Claims Nazis Killed Up To 20 Million People
The Nazi Holocaust may have claimed up to 20 million lives, a figure far greater than previous estimates, new research has revealed.The millions disappeared into a Nazi imprisonment and killing machine...
View ArticleThe Navy's Next-Generation Warship Gets Two Critical Defensive Boosts
The Navy's new $440-million Littoral Combat Ship needs some help taking care of itself. The LCS is said to be vulnerable to incoming strikes, meaning it might not survive a shootout with, say,...
View ArticleThis Man Memorized Every Soldier Killed In Afghanistan For An Amazing Tribute
A man named Ron White is creating a memorial for all 2,200 U.S. military servicemembers killed in Afghanistan, writing their name and rank on a black wall — and he's doing it all by memory.A Navy...
View ArticleBig Banks Wrongfully Foreclosed On More Than 700 Military Members During The...
The nation's largest banks have discovered that they wrongfully foreclosed on more than 700 military members during the financial crisis, the New York Times Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess...
View Article'Batman' Just Brought A Bad Guy To Justice In The UK
A suspected burglar in northern England was brought to justice on Feb. 25 by an unidentified man in a Batman costume.After dropping off the bad guy at the West Yorkshire Police station, officers said...
View ArticleThese Armored Trains Played A Vital Role In Both World Wars
Trains may not seem too impressive in the 21st century, when they play a small role in transporting Americans and are used in Europe and Asia for high-speed, comfortable travel.But in the last century,...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Chase In Korea Just The Latest In Military Misconduct
South Korean police ended a high-speed chase through Seoul by shooting a U.S. Army soldier in the shoulder, CNN reports.Kevin Voigt and Tim Schwarz of CNN write:The incident began when police received...
View Article39 Photos That Prove Vladimir Putin Is The Most Badass Leader In The World
Today marks the one year anniversary of Putin's return to the Russian Presidency, and it's worth taking another look at the closest Russia has been able to come to Theodore Roosevelt.The President has...
View ArticleHomeland Security Is Serving Warrants Using Mine-Resistant Vehicles
The Department of Homeland Security has acquired over 2,700 military-style, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles for use inside the U.S., according to reports from RT.The MRAP, as it's known in the...
View ArticleNorth Korea Vows To Cancel The 1953 Korean War Cease-Fire
North Korea said it will cancel the 1953 Korean War cease-fire on March 11 amid ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills, The Associated Press reports.On Friday thousands of U.S. troops...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Is So Fed Up With The F-35 Program It's Calling Out Contractors...
Shortly before the F-35 fleetwide grounding was lifted (as investigation found that cracked turbine blade affected only overused test plane and no redesign is needed), Reuters reported that during an...
View Article'World's Sexiest Computer Hacker' To Be Sentenced This Spring
Kristina Svechinskaya, dubbed the "world's sexiest computer hacker" after a daring internet heist in New York, has had her sentencing postponed until April, reports Russian Legal Information...
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