The Few. The Proud. The Hijabed. Once again, the issue of women military wearing hijabs or headscarves on visits to Afghan villages, is raising concerns and some outrage. Admiral Mike Mullen explains that the women are not ordered to don…
Catching up on news on Libya. Benghazi rebels are reportedly flying the Libyan flag used before the Gaddafi coup. The U.S. is considering adding attack aircraft to Libya. The rebel leader, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, says he has al-Qaeda on his front…
The U.S. is saying a US F-15E jet fighter was not shot down, but confirmed that it had crashed landed in a field near Benghazi. The two crewmen ejected and survived. A U.S. military helicopter rescued one of the men,…
A Kosovar Muslim, Arif Uta or Arid Uka or Arif Uka, wielding a handgun and a knife, yelled the all-too-familiar deadly jihadi prayer, “Allahu Akbar,” and shot one U.S. Airman as he smoked a cigarette outside of a bus marked…
Lt. General Mike Gould is the Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is accused of having a viewpoint “tilted” toward evangelical Christianity, and creating an environment of “proselytizing. Wounded retired Marine 1st Lt. Clebe…
Before getting to the news and views you may have missed, today we will hear about the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Rocking one of the poorest and most unstable countries on the face of the earth, the 7.0…
My blogging-buddy artist friend, David Lemon, sent this video with the comment “gob-smacked, I be.” You’ll hear it in the video as well. The following information came with the video, and I assume it came via the Brit taking the…
Desert Storm vet explains decision to leave Air Force after 22 years. By MIKE BANZET I never expected to write this letter, but my Mom e-mailed me to get information about my career for a writeup on Veterans Day, and…
While all is silent on the serious news of the Obama administration’s latest outrages, and while the focus is on Fox News and Shirley Sherrod, Obama is signaling he will cut the budget for purchases of the C-17 used in…
Big Mexican Women, known as BMW’s, are credited with helping Afghan military escape from Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. The men are listed as AWOL, all 46 of them, but American intelligence and Air Force weren’t concerned.…
