Archive for February, 2007

U.S. Army Seeks Paralysis Ray

Technovelgy reports that the U.S. Army is asking Peak Beam Systems to: “…design and fabricate a light-based immobilisation system/deterrent device and integrate it with an unmanned aerial system. This will include any necessary medical research on frequency and amplitude modulation of high-intensity...
February 27th, 2007 | Future Weapons | Read More

Why This Isn’t Fort Democracy

Thomas Jefferson said “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” That is the risk of Democracy — that ignorant people will use it to promote values of intolerance. Remember that Hitler, Chavez,...
February 27th, 2007 | Politics | Read More

Pakistani Girl Traded for Dead Fathers Poker Debt

The Associated Press, via FoxNews, reports that a group of village elders in Hyderabad Pakistan ruled in January that, in payment for a sixteen year old poker debt created by her dead father, 17 year old Rasheeda Umrani was to be forced into marriage to one of Lal Haider’s sons. Most of Pakistan...
February 27th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

An American Soldier’s View of Problems in Iraq

The following is a guest editorial by SPC “Doc” Shurley of 2/5 Cav, 1st CB who is currently stationed in Iraq. An American Soldier’s View of Problems in Iraq The following is an article about Bush’s National Address about troop increase. I thought it was a good idea to let you...
February 27th, 2007 | Politics | Read More

What Causes Terrorism?

Islam is not the direct cause of terrorism in our world. Yes, the vast majority of terrorists are Islamic. However, there are also hundreds of millions of Muslims living in peace on this planet. The Muslim world, however, is a disaster. It is politically, economically, and socially backwards. It is hundreds...
February 20th, 2007 | Politics | Read More

Global Incident Map

Global Incident Map presents you with a graphical display of recent terrorist activity across the globe. The display is a bit disconcerting, because we tend to think as terrorist activity as something that happens infreqently and the map shows us how incorrect that perception really is. You can zoom...
February 19th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

U.S. Torture and Atrocities

U.S. Torture and Atrocities is an awesome web site, filled with great pictures of the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces doing their jobs all over the globe.
February 19th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More