There is a real interesting article by Daniel Pipes on interpreting and reforming Islamic practice vis a vis the Koran, here  http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3281...   more »

5.56 mm rounds produced by Israeli Military Industries

 

 

            A couple of years ago, in June 2004, ...   more »

Let's go right to the kill count.  Jack got 3.5 more kills last night.  He got full kills for the ...   more »

Many media outlets are reporting today on Iran's further endeavors to enlighten the world, most recently by President Ahmadinejad's announcement of ...   more »

Now all the pundits out there, myself included, were I truly a betting man, can place bets -- techincally an ...   more »

The first hour of "24"'s double episode was promising, with some actual tension and mystery as first ex-President Palmer and then ...   more »

An Israeli F-15I with a large bomb load.

 

The British Sunday Times claims in a short article yesterday that Israel ...   more »

The US Naval Academy is court-martialing an instructor, a Navy Lieutenant, for making sexually offensive comments to a female midshipman ...   more »

Sura 5 is subtitled "The Table" but like previous Sura's the subtitle has only a little to do with the ...   more »

 

 

Yesterday President Bush called Iran a "grave threat" using rhetoric similar to that applied to Iraq before the ...   more »

US Airforce personnel load a Hellfire missile onto a Predator drone, like the one gunning for al Qaeda's Dr. Zawahiri....   more »

The Washington Post today runs an interesting and typically wishy-washy article on Islam and the general approval in the Muslim ...   more »

Death penalty opponents had discouraging news yesterday when much ballyhooed DNA tests on executed murderer Roger Coleman came back confirming ...   more »

Will Captain Kirk join Jack Bauer on "24" this season?  We can only hope.

I'll begin the official "24" kill ...   more »

Running against George Bush has become a popular thing to do in certain foreign elections, as former German chancellor Gerhard ...   more »

This is a typical body armor set up, with ceramic plates inserted to cover vital areas.  Some units add additional ...   more »

Two stories today simply and unfortunately confirm things I've been reporting for a long time.

Here http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1136361054177&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull is a column ...   more »

Saw is not as bad a movie as I thought it would be, but my expectations were quite low, so ...   more »

Here's another article on a topic I've touched on before (see "Is the Army Recruiting Retards")--the Army's increasing recruitment of ...   more »

I've taken the position that Iran will inevitably become a nuclear state and that developing an effective policy of deterrence is ...   more »

I have little regard for judges, and this is a reason why http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060109120809990001.  The article explains that Andrea Yates, ...   more »

Now that my wife has a pedometer (which I purchased for Xmas) she is trying to achieve the goal of walking 10,000 steps per day.  Why 10,000?  Who knows?  If it looks like she's not going to make the goal she walks or runs in place like a mentally disturbed person.  After such a fit she makes me look at the device to demonstrate that another 20 or so steps have been counted off.  She is walking off to nowhere, counting every step.  Hurray!

This is an interesting article about the Iranian nuclear threat to Israel and Israeli defenses and deterrence http://www.spacewar.com/news/Israel_Iran_Nuclear_Balance.html

The other day I mentioned Michael Ledeen, a columnist for National Review, in a post on Iran.  He's been arguing ...   more »

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno made some relatively innocuous remarks about a player charged with a sexual assault.  Here they ...   more »

Gibbs never looks afraid, but believe me he was yesterday.

As an admitted and unapologetic "fair weather fan" I am ...   more »

I’ve taken the position repeatedly that a military solution to Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons is impracticable, especially for ...   more »

An interesting article in the New Republic, which you might be able to access here http://www.tnr.com/pdf/dl/tnr20060116.pdf concerns Holland's recent swing ...   more »

Shura 4 is subtitled “Women” and the first portion of the Shura deals with the status of women in Islam....   more »

There evidently is a lot of controversy about the new NBC drama called "The Book of Daniel" about a Reverend with ...   more »

This commentary on the film Munich http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/charen200601060710.asp by Mona Charen in National Review, touches on some of the themes in ...   more »

Christopher Hitchens has recently become a hero of the right, at least when it comes to foreign policy, but for ...   more »

An Italian court may decide whether Jesus actually existed or is basically a fraud.  The details are here http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060104123809990010&ncid=NWS00010000000001.  The plaintiff ...   more »

Ariel Sharon was a brave man and a Jewish and Israeli hero, so although I disagree with his recent policies ...   more »

In the 1920s Oswald Spengler wrote "The Decline of the West". It was an example of  historicism, a kind of predictive ...   more »

This is an M1A2 SEP, the latest model.  Though quite formidable, the active Army will field fewer than 900 of ...   more »

Here's my list of the ten top movies of 2005, none of which I've seen, by the way.  Okay, it's ...   more »

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, here http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/666195.html, yesterday five Palestinian gunman burst into the home of Samir Nasrallah ...   more »

Okay, let's understand something about the Koran.  It was written by a fellow named Mohamed who lived in the 7th ...   more »

 

 

“The State of Israel has always and [sic] a single defense goal – to ensure the existence of ...   more »