Blackhawk UH-60 Lomo

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I’ve never experienced anything like the helicopter ride I took over northern Iraq recently. I felt as if I was trapped inside the devil’s hair dryer the entire time. We flew over endless barrens randomly interspersed with signs of [...]

by Julie of Degree of Madness
If you owe back taxes to the federal government, the next call asking you to pay may come not from an Internal Revenue Service officer, but from a private debt collector.
Within two weeks, the I.R.S. will turn over data on 12,500 taxpayers  each of whom owes $25,000 or less [...]

A recent article about an Australian acquitted of a terrorism charge after returning from an al qaeda training camp had me wondering; doesnt that make him a terrorist?
Melbourne man Jack Thomas has been acquitted of terrorism offences in Victoria’s Court of Appeal. His convictions for receiving funds from a terror group and using a false [...]

I’ve become a victim of my own success. Now that the MNF-Iraq.com web site is up and rolling, I’m going to be participating in lots of trips “outside the wire.”
This leads me to reflect somewhat on the nature of safety. In the months that I’ve spent in Iraq, I’ve noticed that a lot of people [...]

It’s a problem that will cost lives again; just like it did on September 11, 2001.
Just ask Michael Tuohey, the ticket agent who gave the boarding passes to Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz Alomari.  Clearly a product of liberal conditioning; he allowed who he instinctively knew to be terrorists to board the plane:
 
I said to [...]