U.S. Navy SEALs

Captain Phillips is a Hokey High Seas Drama Apt to Turn Stomachs and Elicit Groans

A Hollywood-style A Hijacking for dummies.

Murph: The Protector: Hagiography for a SEAL

76-Year-Old Erotic Writer: "I'll Use the C-Word, but Not the Cruder Language!"

Desiree Holt's Fifty Shades of Grandma

A Few Questions About Rex Ryan's Tattoo and the Front Page of the Daily News

You have surely seen the picture of Jets coach Rex Ryan on the front page of today's New York Daily News by now. Ryan was captured shirtless and sunbathing in the Bahamas, displaying a previously unseen tattoo of his wife, Michelle. The tattoo shows Michelle kneeling in a come-hither pinup pose wear ... More >>

A Dark Truth

The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

Darkness on the edge of town

9/11 Scammer/Fake Navy SEAL Called On BS By Real SEAL A Year Before Authorities Stepped In

"What a jerk off."That's how actual Navy SEAL Don Shipley described alleged 9/11 scammer/faux-Navy SEAL Mark Anthony Niemczyk in April of last year -- more than a year before the New Jersey Attorney General's Office named Niemczyk in a lawsuit charging that he and another man have been running a bog ... More >>

Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon

Rightbloggers: Obama Unfairly Uses Bin Laden, Jokes, and Slow Jam to Get Reelected

We're coming up to the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's demise. Some media outlets celebrated with cute headlines ("Osama Bin Laden Used Viagra And 'Just-For-Men' To Keep His Wives Interested In Him"). President Obama celebrated with an ad reminding everyone that he killed him. To rightblogge ... More >>

Honor, Courage, Commitment, Popcorn: Act of Valor Wants You

Confusion Surrounds Reports of U.S. Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan

​Earlier, we reported on the helicopter crash in the Wardak province of Afghanistan that killed 31 American troops. The AP briefly reported that "one former U.S. official said that the dead included more than 20 Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six, the unit that carried out the raid in Pakistan in M ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Had Been Plotting U.S. Attack for 10th Anniversary of September 11

​Osama bin Laden had apparently been gathering a team of militants to orchestrate an attack on the U.S. on September 11 of this year, the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The Wall Street Journal reports that this intelligence comes from communications Nav ... More >>

Wet, Naked Man Could Have Caused a Lot of Problems at JFK If He Knew How

​In a far too short story, the New York Post informs us of a "dripping-wet, naked man" eventually identified as Greg Rodriguez, 30, who managed to get over an 8-foot-high barbed wire fence at JFK Airport yesterday morning. This put him very, very close to a storage facility housing quite a lot ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Secret, Simple Email Plan

More like, You've Got Flash Drives​Osama Bin Laden was a "prolific email writer" despite having no internet in the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound where he hid for about five years. U.S. intel after the raid that killed Bin Laden shows that the Al Qaeda leader managed to send "thousands of messa ... More >>

Rightbloggers Explain How Killing Osama Was Bad for Obama, America

Last Sunday, right after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, we did a quick scan of rightblogger responses to the event. The brethren basically felt Obama had nothing to do with it and if he did, it wasn't worth doing. A week has passed. Which means rightbloggers have had time ... More >>

Taliban Confirms Bin Laden's Death; CUNY Board Reconsidering Kushner Decision

​The Taliban has joined al Qaeda in admitting that Osama Bin Laden is in fact dead. Bin Laden "embraced martyrdom as per the Will of the Almighty Allah during an abrupt attack by the American invading soldiers," as per their statement. In other Bin Laden-related news, the U.S. has demanded to know ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Killing Was 'Cold-Blooded,' 'One-Sided' in New Versions of Raid Story

​Because every morsel of information about the U.S. raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan earlier this week has been closely considered and scrutinized, the shifting nature of the White House's story has been extra apparent. By Thursday morning, the initial tales of a 40-minute firefigh ... More >>

Now Osama Bin Laden 'Shoved' Wife, Acted 'Cowardly'

​The ever-changing account of what happened when U.S. forces found and killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan has been updated once again. This time, an unnamed "senior U.S. official," who presumably was not there that fateful night and doesn't necessarily know more than the rest of hi ... More >>

Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, Osama Bin Laden's Youngest Wife, Rushed to Save Him

​A passport in the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed has identified Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah as the woman in the room with Bin Laden when he was killed. According to ABC News, though the story has changed multiple times over the last three days, Fatah is Bin Laden's ... More >>

Reuters Publishes Photos of Men Killed With Osama Bin Laden: Will Others Leak?

​Yesterday we asked "Should the United States Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos?" but by this afternoon the White House announced that President Barack Obama had opted to keep the images secret for fear they would inflame anti-U.S. anger worldwide. "There is no doubt that we killed Osama bi ... More >>

The Rock Knew About Osama Bin Laden's Death Before You: Who Knew What When?

​In a special Monday edition of our daily media column Press Clips, we're going to focus on the only news that anyone cares about today: the death of Osama Bin Laden. The 10-plus-year tale obviously includes endless details, angles and lessons in international diplomacy, military operations, c ... More >>

Obama's Afghan Surge Proves He's Trying to Lose, Say Rightbloggers

In his West Point speech on Tuesday, President Obama announced 30,000 fresh troops would be delivered to Afghanistan early next year. He also said that "after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home." "Begin to come home" is a vague term, perhaps purposefully so. In the 2007 surge, three a ... More >>

Absalom, O Absalom

'Not for inciting hatred, but for learning lessons from history'

Feeling Insecure

There's no defense for some of the government's defense plans, even for D.C.

Gang of Four

Get witch or die trying: Dense and extremely weird, Goblet has no drinking problems

Marines: Looking for a Few Good Aliens?

Recruiter on trial for selling IDs to enlist illegals

What Did Rumsfeld Know?

ACLU releases documents of U.S. torture of detainees by more than 'a few bad apples'

Bring Your Own Boots

Infantryman writes of having to buy his own supplies for Iraq

A Spotless Service Record?

Is That Because You Never Did Serve?

Kerry's War

Dean Goes on the Offensive

Beyond The Veil

Faraway, So Close

Our Designated Killers

'Where Is the Outrage?'

War Games

Close-up on City Island

I'll Cut the Fence, You Grab the Plutonium

Relying on Blind Faith

Media Assembles Fractured Picture of War

The New World Order

Terrorist Attacks Redraw the Global Map

The Americans Who Stopped My Lai

‘I Wasn’t Taught to Murder and Kill’

Who Made Bob Kerrey Do It?

Gerhard Klann: ‘We Just Slaughtered Them’

Let's All Go to Bogotá

Plan Colombia Has Only Just Begun

Rambunctious Rookie Ruffian

Snow-Blind on 43rd Street

The Times’ Silence on Plan Colombia

Let’s Get Real

Nation

Prole Playing

Six Ways to Sunday

Seven Days Beats Its Pulp Into a Brain

Words Worth