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Because it was a support unit, the 507th was equipped for duty behind the front lines--except that the front turned out to be beside and behind and all around them. There were no antitank weapons, no heavy artillery, just a .50-cal. machine gun that--like the soldier's M-16 rifles--didn't work very well, clogged and jammed with three days' worth of blowing sand. By the time her lost convoy came under fire in the streets of Nasiriyah, Lynch's rifle was about as useful as a hockey stick. The soldiers had been instructed to clean...
...Anything less is simply the heavy hand of the government trying to save some jobs by destroying others, all at the point of a gun. The purpose of government is to protect our God-given freedoms, not to alleviate the consequences of an incompetent lifestyle. Compete, be better than the other guy, or get out. I do not appreciate being forced at gunpoint to anesthetize people to the consequences of their choices at my expense. Get the hell out of my way. Evan Lang Terre Haute...
Puff Daddy may have been far too eager to let the world know that—when he wasn’t implicating himself in gun shoot-outs or dating Jennifer Lopez—he was at an altar with a rather corpulent black man on the cross. But regardless of Combs’ personal stake in his exploitation of Biggie’s death, it was an exploitation that produced positive consequences. The East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry and its participants suddenly came into the national spotlight, out of the manipulative hands of hip-hop rags that...
...October, the small Kentucky town of West Point hosted 12,000 visitors at the annual Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot. The competition, which is the nation’s largest, includes both a machine gun shoot-off and a separate competition for flame-throwers...
...more bluntly, our country's critical data systems are the World Trade towers, and the hijacked planes are heading in their direction. Criminals have discovered how much easier it is to rob banks with a keyboard than a mask and gun. Will terrorists figure out how to shut down the banking system and strangle the economy? Information technology controls the nation's physical infrastructure--nuclear plants, air-traffic control, water systems--like a central nervous system. "Hits against the IT network will cascade to the other critical infrastructures," Stolfo said. (Consider the cascading effect of this year's blackout...