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War: Truth, Trust & Betrayal
Mathew Goldsteyn and the CIA Mathew Goldsteyn US Army Major Mathew Goldsteyn revealed to the CIA during a 2011 job interview that he had “captured and shot and buried a suspected IED bomb maker” while...
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Headline of the Week
From the UK’s Daily Mail Top Fashion Hairdresser Drowned in a Stream After Breaking into a Zoo Wearing Rubber Bondage Gear While High on Crystal Meth Stay out of the Zoo!
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Islam, Conservatives and Science
When Blue Jeans Are to Blame Fox News reported yesterday that Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a conservative Pakistani politician and cleric, proclaimed that blue jean-clad-women were responsible for...
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Race: The Colored Purpose
How Quickly We Forget Rachel Dolezal, apparently of caucasic origin but who wished to be seen as black, has resigned from her leadership post at the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the...
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Formula for Mayhem: Booth, Oswald & Dylann Roof
The Inner Struggle Dylann Roof The news that Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old, was the murderer of nine black church-goers in Charleston, SC, has caused both grief and consternation as Americans express deep...
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On Justification: Equality, Scripture & Politics
“Equal dignity in the eyes of the law.” Justice Anthony Kennedy Lincoln by Gardner Twenty-five years from now folks will look back on this week’s Supreme Court...
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Celebrating the America Ideal
Tolerance and the Rule of Law Two hundred years ago this year, in 1815, America was embroiled in a war with England during which our capitol city was destroyed. The war was fiercely unpopular with...
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Semper Fi: Deport Those Damn Marines
JFK Would Still Be Alive President John F. Kennedy would undoubtedly have served a second term and retired to a long post-presidential career had it not been for the murderous Marines. Lee Harvey...
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IAFF Ethics: Schaitberger Found at Fault
Federal Department of Labor Finding Many will know that IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger engaged in a blatant conflict of interest surrounding his cozy real estate deals with Jim Franzoni of...
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60 Seconds to Save the IAFF
Stop the Corruption A number of people have asked what they can do to reverse the rot at the IAFF. It’s easy, simple and fast. Send some version of the sentence below, even a cut and paste, to the...
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Guiding: Philip Keeps It Real
The Old Group Photo One of the joys of guiding, especially 8th-grade school groups, is the apparently mandatory group photos taken in front of Washington attractions, both major and minor. The phrase...
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Bam at the Border?
Fact Check: Illegal Immigration To hear the Trumpster tell it you would think President Obama is at the border giving them a leg over the fence. What bullshit. First, illegal immigration from Mexico...
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Special Forces Alert: When in Bastrop
Do As The Bastropians Do Special Forces on Patrol Conservative patriotism apparently has its limits. Just ask the folks in Bastrop, Texas, population 7,218. US Special Forces are soon set to begin Jade...
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In Harm’s Way, At Home
The Killer Archetype in Transition? “While we expect our sailors and Marines to go into harm’s way, and they do so without hesitation, an attack at home, in our community, is insidious and...
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A Confederacy of Dunces*
The Revisionist Itch Last week South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed legislation removing the confederate battle flag from the statehouse. A good move as the flag was a historical reference to US...
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The Social Media Ejaculation
Last week the Washington Post reported, “During a heated exchange with another commenter, Guy Estergall, a 26-year veteran of the Cleveland Fire Department, wrote that the “overwhelming majority of...
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The Trumpster, Unleashed
“Riling Up the Crazies.” John McCain knows his party pretty well. In response to Donald Trump’s Mexican trash talk, the Times reports that McCain said, “Trump is riling up the crazies.” Yesterday, at a...
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Safety: Drunks R Us
Long Island Crash Kills Four Four young women riding in a chauffeured limousine making a U-turn were killed when their car was rammed by a pick-up truck. The driver of the truck has been charged with...
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On Memorials, Water and Respect
A Cool Spot on a Very Hot Day There’s a bit of web-inspired kerfuffle this morning over a photo of visitors standing in the water at the WWII Memorial in front of a sign saying not to. The sign says,...
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IAFF Ethics: A One-Year Anniversary
The Knights of Summer So, it was exactly a year ago that delegates including local, state, and provincial leaders strangled that newborn called ethics in a crushing defeat at the convention. They were...
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