Disgusted by Wesboro Baptist’s plans to picket a vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the hacker collective is waging a cyber war against the hate-mongering group
21st Century Military Pillboxes
Robert Gates famously complained that health-care costs “are eating the Defense Department alive” when he served as defense secretary.
And that was more than two years before Monday’s Pentagon announcement of a contract to …
A Glimmer of Good Gun News, for a Change
I was pleased to see the proposed legislation allowing commanders to ask service members about their personal firearms in the cases where commanders or physicians were worried about suicide risk. I have spoken and written about …
School Security: Why It’s So Hard to Keep Kids Safe
In the wake of the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, parents, administrators and legislators debate whether lockdowns are enough to protect students
2nd Lieutenant Danny Inouye, 1924-2012
John Noonan is a one-time journalist who now toils in anonymity on Capitol Hill for Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, the California Republican who chairs the armed services committee.
But every once in awhile, he betrays his …
The Re-Making of Newtown: Will Tragedy Make It Stronger?
It was a quaint town until Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School. Now Newtown is in the middle of a media maelstrom. How will it emerge?
Remembering Jack Pinto: Young Brothers Recall a Six-Year Old Victim
The Leuci brothers knew Jack Pinto from their wrestling league. They appear to be coping even though there may never be answers for all of their questions
‘These Tragedies Must End’: Obama Promises Change at Newtown Vigil, but Can He Deliver?
At a moment of almost incomprehensible horror and suffering, Barack Obama delivered elegiac remarks at a Sunday-night prayer vigil in Newtown, Conn.
Tears and Starlight in Newtown: How the President Brought Comfort
The town arrived to mourn and seek meaning out of the carnage. It received one of the most powerful sermons ever delivered by a U.S. President
An Army Suicide’s Widow, and Mom, Ponders Newtown
On Friday I think I was in denial.
Like a beating drum, I kept hearing Mike’s words tap away in my mind. “What the heck are any of us fighting for if you won’t live like you are free?”
My soldier-husband, then on a …
Predatory Pricing?
Sheesh. It was only a month ago that the drone drivers at Battlespace Flight Services, a short walk from the Pentagon, landed a $950 million contract to keep Pentagon drones flying “at tasked locations worldwide” though March …
Lousy Monday Morning…
It’s tough getting up the week before Christmas to hear of those 10 young Afghan girls killed by a landmine Monday as they gathered firewood in Nangahar province in the eastern part of the country.
One of them reportedly …