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And yet Democrats outnumber Republicans according to Rasmussen. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/partisan_trends So which means what? We can throw polls at each other until we're tired. But what's most telling about the last few Presidential elections is...

The Corps, probably (shocking!). The Marine Corps does not represent the whole of the military, especially culturally.

I don't really care to argue which way the military or the country leans; but we can at least agree that it's closely reflective of the country at large. And there's certainly by no means a majority of very conservative. Unless those are some really rosy glasses you've got on. I won't assert...

Ignored according to whose interpretation of the enumerated powers? There is a long history of SCOTUS rulings with respect to the extent of federal powers that have for the large part upheld federal powers with respect to its modern activities. Do you deem the SCOTUS an illegitimate authority on...

Since when is the Military NCO's and field grade? There are far better polls than the Military Times, but it's fairly close to what's already known. You don't see the disconnect between "majority of the military is very conservative" and a small subset of officers and enlisted being "far more...

I'm going to stay clear of this one..... But FYI, http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/04/military_poll_advance_041110w/

So what aspects of the Constitution do we not pay attention to anymore? Perhaps the authority to issue letters of Marque and Reprisal? Don't confuse adherence to the Constitution, a legal document outlining a broad framework for the organization of our government, with a literal nostalgia for...

When our country was founded it was largely agrarian with a weak and largely amateur military. Two decades later the British came back and burned the White House down. It wasn't all peaches and liberty. Besides, this, uh, already exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Defense_Forces There...

So it's only murder when the government does it? Funny, usually it's the other way around. And what of the people who previously would have been denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions? I guess the insurance company denied them that choice. Is that morally superior to the government...

So what does that make an insurance company that refuses to pay for treatment? Or denies coverage to someone with pre-existing conditions? Since there's no public option to speak of, the only "administrators" that could ration resources are private insurers. Unless you propose that we have...

That's supposed to be a substantive criticism of his foreign policy? That he bows too much? He's actually doing a sort of waist bend to the Japanese Prime Minister, but he's a lot taller than Hu. Maybe it'd help if he were shorter. Meanwhile, Palin and Cheney are upset that the Prez's being...

Which one is that, the motor in the A-6?

In the meantime, the direct url still works (thanks to chrome auto-complete) www.airwarriors.com/forum/search.php?do=getdaily&contenttype=vBForum_Post

Or, if you'd rather set your opinion by fealty to a deceased actor: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-08/reagan-would-approve/

So who would you nuke if that happened? If 9/11 had been perpetrated with a dirty bomb or a chemical weapon, would you have nuked Kabul? If the Northeast blackout in 2003 had been the result of a Chinese cyberattack, would you have nuked Beijing? Training for CBRN is lumped together for the...

What we're doing is uncoupling nuclear arms from other WMD, since we're tying it to adherence of NNPT as the standard of responsible conduct. The NYT article says the White House reserves the option of reeadopting nuclear strike against a significant development in biological weapons that would...

Sure, but the linked analysis went further to equate "embedded with terrorists" with becoming a terrorist and concludes that those journalists were enemy combatants. Journalism is neither a shield - they accepted the risks - nor a badge of association. Their deaths are regrettable but...

The notion that a journalist embedded with insurgents is a combatant and so should be shot is just stupid. You're with us or you're against is an infantile jingoistic slogan.

The Army 15-6 investigation pushed out by Centcom provides much of the context. They were approx 100 feet away from a Humvee and the recovered camera had pics showing their proximity to US forces. The Bradleys that arrived recovered AK's, RPG's, as well as two telephoto Canons, and administered...

I think you misunderstand the policy change; it pledges to not use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear countries that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The exception is that we make no such reservations with rogue states like Iran or the Norks.

Great man....or clueless. Huh, no room inbetween, eh? The Financial Times did a great in-depth profile on the workings of Obama's foreign policy team, warts and all. You have to take off the polarized glasses to make any sense of it, though...

So your argument is that either the troops really were ignoring him, or the "professional media" chose to portray it that way. I think you're reading too much into the intent of PR folks that can't get their captions right. Or even spell the president's name right. Barak? Really? Those are the...

I guess these guys are just blowing off the 4-star by not staying glued to his every move during a chow hall visit and going on with their chow and their conversations. http://www.defense.gov/home/images/photos/2005-11/index/Hi-Res/051124-a-0281m-007.jpg Christ this is petty.

They got some strange taste in music at USAFA....

But the government doesn't just pay 3k to blue cross every month. It's a government-administered single-payer system; the same sort that critics allege would be so inefficient and wasteful by virtue of the government running it.

But this "risk" also assumes that they will receive emergency medical care without regard for their ability to pay, through an infrastructure subsidized by those who do pay into the healthcare system. Remove that security net, and the risk calculus shifts significantly. Insurance companies make...

I'm 0/7 or so on that site. It may be detailed if it hits you but it's by no means comprehensive.

So the public option is dead, and yet Republicans still want to tank this plan over the individual mandate - the central feature of Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care reform, and of the Wyden-Bennett alternative, backed by Republican senators including Judd Gregg, Lindsey Graham, and Lamar...

This is about as logically sound as the argument that taxes are slavery. You're mandated coverage but by no means to accept any particular treatment.

So Geico is a monopoly?

Buried in the article is that EADS is still interested in competing despite NG's withdrawal. Whoever the unnamed US company is that's working with UAC, I'm sure EADS would be a more appealing partner.

Fair enough, but "loophole" was exactly how the article described it and didn't portray it to be common or proper practice.

Did any one else pick up on the "loophole" the pilot used to depart - by entering Bordeaux instead of Paris in the flight computer as the final destination so as to be able to take off without the legally mandated planned reserve? Not a good sign for the professionalism of the pilot.

A Marine Delta out of Beaufort had a fire and both crew punched over the Atlantic. They're both ok. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8Ycl2CSWZMDDu_jgIJhD4hWm-8QD9ECG7GO0

Left handed bolt. They probably reversed the frame, which is a common film editing technique to get the right composition or whatnot. Drives nitpickers nuts, though.

And unless you think personal combat is what "it"'s all about, that simply isn't true. You admire their "fitness, mental acuity, and general SA" but think they can't prevail in combat because they can't ruck a rifle over the Kush? Well clearly the Navy needs some remedial rucking; I think...

Via Adm. Mullen's Twitter: From DoD on MyCAA: spouses w/currently approved financial account documents - they will be honored + more info. http://bit.ly/aR8QyK

Well seeing as the list of recipients include the 1980 Olympic hockey team, the Little Rock 9, and Frank Sinatra, it's a reward for civic, not military accomplishments.

Boeing Tanker Protest: Reading the Entrails... WSJ on the sordid process: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704784904575111660793465780.html

Stolen shamelessly off a buddy's fb page.

Who said I was replying to you? Real professional to try to bully me off the board. Have fun with that.

The point is that it's attention whoreitis like, uh, this guy. Yea, ok, you can carry a rifle around, I get it. There's a reason people are staring, too. The assless chaps (or burning bush effigy) analogy is apt. It's not a convincing strategy to parade an extreme that makes people...

I'd be more amused if it were a slow regional airport and not Kennedy, but it seems like it was a fairly tame time.

So if you have a bunch of selfish fucksticks that won't watch their fellow Marine/soldier/sailor/airman's back, the answer is to legitimize their bigotry by discharging the odd man? The rest of that unit needs to get disciplined. I don't expect everyone to accept homosexuality. Approve...

Between innings/periods what have you at every sporting event I've ever been to.

In the DoN they do for shipboard ops. Rolling deck + low-speed rotor = bad stuff. Dunno if the Army does.

Some cool stuff coming out of Eurocopter: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/eurocopter-moves-one-step-closer-to-whisper-mode/ Maybe that stealth helicopter's a possibility after all.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Whaaat? Try 1%. SDO/AODO (i.e. human phone directory and firewatch) and no shit ODO are night and day. Civilian clerks and contract maintainers don't exactly make for a honest picture of how a squadron runs. ("Whaddya mean I have to do my own travel vouchers? WTF is DTS?")? I feel like I know...

Odierno and Petraeus have also weighed in; overtly in favor of the study and ambiguously indifferent otherwise.