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British Suicide Bombers Go On Strike
Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so [...]
Defund National Endowment for Humanities
This is an action alert to call your representatives and congressmen and urge them to defund the NEH immediately. One of the most outrageously egregious (yes, maybe a little redundant) things I’ve seen taxpayers funding ever! [...]
MasterPiece Arms Releases New Protector Series Pistols
Emily recently got a new Taurus TCP .380 ACP compact pistol. There’s something sexy about knowing she’s armed!! I’ve become a huge fan of these little .380 pistols and have even been looking for something a [...]
President Obama Addresses Troops in S. Korea on Veterans Day
President Obama Addresses S. Korea Troops from You Served Radio & Blog on Vimeo. President Barack Obama addressing troops in South Korea for Veteran’s Day. [...]
Special Category of Hero (Issue #475)
Tom Brokaw wrote an introduction to the coffee table book called Medal of Honor containing portraits of Medal winners some years ago. In it he recounts the arbitrary sort of way that veterans may be regarded [...]
Presumptive House Majority Leader Doesn’t Get Veterans Day
I got this press release from presumptive House Majority Leader John Boehner today: House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) will honor Veterans Day today by visiting Arlington National Cemetery, where he will accompany the Vice President [...]
Tactics Turn Threatening in Broadway
A few days ago, I wrote about Clayton’s problems with a memorial to the fallen that we was planning in the community of Broadway, VA and the fallout from that issue. The past four days, a [...]
Veterans Day: PepsiCo Dream Machine Recycling Initiative Makes Inaugural $500,000 Donation to Vet Program
To commemorate Veterans Day, PepsiCo has announced that through its Dream Machine recycling initiative, a $500,000 donation has been made to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), a national program offering free career training, [...]
Inside the State Department
For those that have the National Geographic Channel, they are airing a show tomorrow called “Inside the State Department.” The channel has kindly provided me with an advance copy of the episode and I can tell [...]
Hero Maker Under Fire
This is probably going to be one of the most difficult posts I’ve ever had to write. Why? Because, I’m going to be on the opposite side of a good, gold star family. It’s not a [...]
Amazing Sacrifice (Issue #474)
Veterans have their day, as it were, every November 11th. The occasion got its start after World War I and was originally called Armistice Day—commemorating the instrument that ended the main hostilities of the Great War, [...]
Gun-toting mother’s lawsuit dismissed
If you haven’t heard the story, a mother attending her daughter’s soccer game. The gun was loaded, holstered, and visible on her hip. But that’s not what really bothered me about this story. “It’s hard to [...]
Unapologetically American Gun Flag From Ranger Up
Ranger Up has done it again with their latest shirts. Our country was founded in Revolution: the militia – the average citizen – taking up arms against an oppressive government. To this day, even in our [...]
Bank Encourages Concealed Carry
This just makes so much sense, I don’t understand how the rest of the approximately 8000 banks in this country continue to forbid legal permit holders from carrying in banks. Without publicly stating whether or not [...]
Gun-Free Safe Zones are Anything But
Did somebody forget to tell the UT campus is a gun-free zone? I have been wracking my brain for the last few weeks trying to figure out how he was [...]



New Online Military Scammers
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Anatomy of a Military Dating Scam
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Military Dating Scams (More Nigerian Scammers)
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Anatomy of a Military Dating Scam
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