One thing that has been concerning lately is the way a lot of people have been open to political violence, particularly from the Left. They’ve engaged in plenty of it, over the last handful of years, and there was little evidence that they intended the second Trump administration to be any different. Well, if that were the case, they might have started off strong, but now things have declined.Namely, support for it has gone down according to a recent study.Despite an increasingly volatile and fraught political climate in the United States, researchers have found a…
LONDON (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran. The 27-year-old man was arrested in London on Thursday, and police have searched two properties in the U.K. capital, Counter Terrorism Policing said in a statement. A 26-year-old British national was interviewed by police “under caution,” which means the interview was recorded and can be used in future prosecutions. On Sunday, five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were…
Maryland’s juvenile justice system is already plagued with many of the same problems that exist in other states, including a lack of increased supervision and incarceration for repeat offenders. Now juvenile justice is taking another step backward in the state, with new “reforms” going into effect that could make it much harder to hold young offenders accountable for their crimes. The Youth Charging Reform Act, signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore back in May, takes effect today, and that means (among other things) that 16- and 17-year-olds charged with first degree assault and other…
Twenty-five years after HBO’s Band of Brothers introduced millions of viewers to the paratroopers of Easy Company, the National WWII Museum is giving fans a considerably more physical way to follow in their footsteps. Beginning Oct. 1, the New Orleans museum and the Crescent City Classic launched the “WWII Challenge: Easy Company,” a virtual fitness event that retraces portions of the unit’s World War II journey from training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, through England, Normandy, the Netherlands, Bastogne and the Bavarian Alps. Participants do not have to recreate the 101st Airborne Division’s marches across Europe. Instead, they can log miles…
There are things that I don’t think you should do, even if I’ll defend your right to do them. I don’t see this as a contradiction, either. To me, it’s simply a matter of there being a difference between “should” and “can.” When you start regulating what people can do, that’s a slippery slope that doesn’t stop easily. Saying people shouldn’t do something is different. That matters because a case of people doing what they can do, but maybe not what they should do, has people at the University of Florida freaking out.Editor’s note: This…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered military service academies to stop granting tenure to civilian professors, arguing that academic job protections undermine their war-fighting mission. The Pentagon declined to explain to Military.com who the policy affects, the evidence behind it, how the academies will recruit and retain qualified professors, and what will protect faculty from political pressure once tenure is removed and a more liberal administration is inevitably elected in the future. When reached with those questions, a Pentagon official responded: “We have nothing additional to provide beyond the statement and the memo.” The Sept. 29 memo stops new tenure…
Connecticut’s ban on the sale of Glocks and other striker-fired pistols was supposed to be officially in effect today, but a federal judge granted a reprieve just hours before the new law was set to be enforced. Judge Kari A. Dooley granted the request for a preliminary injunction from Glock and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which have both filed suit over the Connecticut law. In her 12-page ruling, Dooley declared that the state is unlikely to successfully defend the prohibition, and laid out her reasons why. Dooley says the text of the Second Amendment is…
Per diem is a daily payment to reimburse service members for the out-of-pocket costs of food, lodging and incidental expenses that occur while on military business or temporary duty (TDY) away from their home station. Per diem sets the limit on how much a service member can be reimbursed for meals and lodging. The following is a summary of how per diem works:The DoD Per Diem Allowance Each year the DoD Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Committee sets the per diem allowance. Per diem is specific to a given travel location and can range from a standard CONUS (contiguous U.S.)…
I get that most gun control advocates know jack squat about shooting. David Hogg tried to find a niche for himself a while back by making a big thing out of his going shooting; thus, he couldn’t really be anti-gun, but now that no one is buying it, he’s seemingly stopped pushing that as hard. He probably knows more about shooting than most of his buddies in the anti-gun camp, and no one is going to be impressed by his knowledge. Yet it gets hilarious when an attorney for Everytown Law decides to inform us…
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The grenade bounced off John Allen’s shoulder and exploded nearby during a firefight in Afghanistan. Allen, a Navy SEAL, was badly wounded. He survived the 2014 blast and was medically retired from the SEAL teams in 2017. Now, his audience knows him as MrBallen. He entertains millions with stories that are interesting and dark in nature. Wearing a flannel shirt and a backward cap for most of the videos, his opening promise is that the stories told on the channel are “strange, dark, and mysterious.” While an unusual turn for a former SEAL, it also grew out of a skill…
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At first glance, the Avrocar looked like a prop from a 1950s science fiction movie. It was round, low to the ground and built for two people sitting on opposite sides of its center. But the VZ-9AV was a real aircraft project, backed by the U.S. Army and Air Force to explore whether a flying saucer could serve a military purpose. The idea began in Canada. In the early 1950s, Avro Canada envisioned a vertical takeoff and landing fighter-bomber that looked like it came from the comic books. The craft would eventually be able to fly at supersonic speeds. When…
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The Space Force has spent the past two years pushing artificial intelligence past pilot programs and into daily use, from launch control rooms to satellite operations centers. Some of it comes down from the Pentagon as enterprise-wide software; some of it is built by individual units solving staffing problems they’re living with day to day. Here are six ways AI is already up and running inside the Space Force. The 1st Range Operations Squadron at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, built two AI tools to keep pace with a launch schedule that grew from 19 launches in 2019 to more…
Operation Enduring Freedom began Oct. 7, 2001, when U.S. and British forces launched airstrikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan, less than a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command’s official account of the operation. This month marks 25 years since that first strike. The war it opened would become the longest in U.S. history, stretching across four presidential administrations before its final, chaotic weeks in August 2021. From Enduring Freedom to Freedom’s Sentinel Operation Enduring Freedom’s combat mission formally concluded Dec. 28, 2014, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.…
The Pentagon’s new testosterone screening policy requires medical providers to ask a service member who is undergoing screening about plans for children before writing a single treatment prescription. If the answer is yes to children, or hasn’t decided, the policy bars starting standard testosterone therapy and requires an alternative drug that preserves fertility instead, according to the Defense Health Agency’s Clinical Practice Guideline for Testosterone Deficiency in the Male Service Member, dated Sept. 17, 2026. That requirement, not the widely reported 300 nanogram-per-deciliter threshold that triggers screening, is what a men’s health physician who closely reviewed the policy says matters…
A Philadelphia woman is safe and sound after police say a masked man smashed his way into her apartment early Wednesday morning. The alleged intruder, on the other hand, is neither alive nor well, thanks to the fact that the woman was able to defend herself with a gun. According to Philadelphia police, the break-in occurred around 5 AM Wednesday at an apartment building in the city’s Frankford neighborhood. Investigators say a 29-year-old man wearing a ski mask shattered a second-floor window and climbed inside the apartment, where he was confronted by the woman who…
