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Senator Mike Lee: Cut Cap Balance

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Mike Lee was the first Senator to sign the Cut Cap Balance pledge to support balancing the federal budget and decreasing the size of government. The pledge reads: I pledge to urge my Senators and Member of the House of Representatives to oppose any debt limit increase unless all three of the following conditions have […]

SEIU Thugs Not Guilty?

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“Ken Gladney is the black man who was beaten by two SEIU members outside a town hall event back in 2009. The event was held by Democrat Russ Carnahan, who made sure to have plenty of union muscle handy to pack the auditorium, and maintain the proper ‘atmosphere’ outside. The beating was captured on videotape, […]

Trophy: Active Protection System (APS)

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Source: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Ltd. The ASPRO-A (Trophy) active protection system rapidly detects and tracks any anti-tank threat, classifies it, estimates the optimal intercept point in space and finally neutralizes it away from the platform using a countermeasure.

Pill Popping Chickens – No Thanks

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Administering drugs to chickens, even so-called “free range” chickens is not uncommon. As Dick Young noted on this website when he wrote Wow! Free Range Chickens, “It is clear that most free-range chickens are loaded with antibiotics and growth-promoting drugs. Talk about a festering stewpot. Feed these top-heavy, sad birds a crummy diet of industrial food and animal by-products and you may as well be dining on field rats. No thanks.”

Another Revolution

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Ted Nugent, rock n’ roller and author, recently took the time to imagine what Thomas Jefferson would be thinking of the political situation on July 4, 2011. Nugent writes, “Jefferson would not be celebrating our independence, but rather encouraging Americans to revolt once again.”  Nugent goes on to say that “Our federal government is more […]

Iraq For Sale

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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) Program: The Nano Hummingbird

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Source: DARPA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZbtZqH6Io The Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program is developing an extremely small, ultra lightweight air vehicle system (less than 15 centimeters and less than 20 grams) with the potential to perform indoor and outdoor military missions.  NAV is exploring novel, flapping wing and other configurations to provide warfighters with unprecedented capability during urban […]

Obama the Avoider

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The editors of The Wall Street Journal recently wrote, “The towering ambitions of Mr. Obama’s first two years have suddenly gone into abeyance in his third, apparently to be deferred until years five through eight. The White House is more or less conceding that it doesn’t have a chance of winning a second term unless […]