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Armed Forces

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Allen West Argues Against Amendment to Ban Indefinite Detention of People Arrested on American Soil (Updated)

    Original post, 2:37 a.m.:Legislation was considered late Thursday night to specifically ban the indefinite detention of persons detained on American soil on suspicion of terrorism.It was an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, and would settle the most controvers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Yes, Those Are the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Flying Over Fort Lauderdale

    We're not under attack -- those fighter jets you heard making all that racket yesterday in the skies above Fort Lauderdale are F-16s from the Air Force's Thunderbirds demonstration team, and I'm sorry if the noise woke up your infant or whatever, but this is the coolest thing ever, and that kid need ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Barry "Bear" Silverman Is a Fake Navy SEAL, Says Lawyer Representing Real Navy SEAL

    Assuming you, like most of our dear readers, are a lily-livered sissy who has never made it through a "Hell Night" or advanced Navy SEAL training, here are a couple of things you may not know.1. There are former Navy SEALs who teach classes on how to be like a Navy SEAL, like this guy:2. There are o ... More >>

  • Music

    March 8, 2012

    Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour on March 14 at Hard Rock Live

    Assuming you, like most of our dear readers, are a lily-livered sissy who has never made it through a "Hell Night" or advanced Navy SEAL training, here are a couple of things you may not know.1. There are former Navy SEALs who teach classes on how to be like a Navy SEAL, like this guy:2. There are o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Sean Quinlan Allegedly Tossed Rocks at Cops, Gets the "Throwing a Deadly Missile" Charge

    fark.comRocks and deadly missiles both qualify as "deadly missiles" in Florida.​After allegedly tossing rocks at cops sitting inside their patrol cars, 18-year-old Sean Quinlan was hit with the most poorly named law in the Florida Statutes -- "throwing a deadly missile."Quinlan isn't even the firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Florida Designates Special Hunting Areas for Wounded Veterans

    Hunting and fishing trips are becoming more popular for vets.​Stalking alligators in a swamp is not the only way veterans can bond and heal during outdoor adventures in Florida. In May, the Legislature passed a bill designating certain portions of state forests hunting areas for injured activ ... More >>

  • News

    September 29, 2011

    We Get Letters: The Sheriff and Sexism and AK-47s

    Hunting and fishing trips are becoming more popular for vets.​Stalking alligators in a swamp is not the only way veterans can bond and heal during outdoor adventures in Florida. In May, the Legislature passed a bill designating certain portions of state forests hunting areas for injured activ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    GOP Debate Audience Members Make Fools of Themselves by Booing Gay Soldier (Video)

    ​Another GOP presidential debate in Florida last night apparently presented the opportunity for audience members to make asses of themselves on national television again, this time by booing a gay soldier stationed in Iraq.During the Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, a question was given to Rick ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Florida Company Offering Free AK-47s for People Opening New Accounts With Them

    gunslot.com​Do you happen to need an AK-47, as well as a company to process your credit card transactions?If so, that would make today your lucky day, strangely enough.MerchantService.com -- a Sarasota-based company that provides the equipment and processing for credit-card transactions in busines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Cops Arrest West Palm Beach VA Employees, Allege They Were Selling Drugs to Vets

    activerain.comWest Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center​The Palm Beach State Attorney's Office announced today that it has charged 19 people at the West Palm Beach Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center with running the place like a pill mill.According to State Attorney Michael McAuli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Allen West: Country Is at "DEFCON 1"; Offers to Run the House of Representatives by Himself

    ​More than 80 U.S. lawmakers are headed to Israel during Congress' vacation, but Rep. Allen West said yesterday he's more than ready to come back to the House floor and run the place by himself.Both chambers of Congress are in recess until September 5, which hasn't been sitting too well with sever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Rick Scott's Staff Running Thin -- Top Adviser Resigns, Chief of Staff Demoted

    Wanna be my friend?​Only six months into office, Gov. Rick Scott is running a little low on friends for his executive team.Mary Ann Carter -- the governor's policy adviser -- handed in her resignation letter today, saying she needed to spend more time with her family.Carter's announcement comes on ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2011

    Guns Online: No Permit Needed

    Wanna be my friend?​Only six months into office, Gov. Rick Scott is running a little low on friends for his executive team.Mary Ann Carter -- the governor's policy adviser -- handed in her resignation letter today, saying she needed to spend more time with her family.Carter's announcement comes on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 3)

    ​New Times: You've shown a strong interest in Israel and Israeli politics. My understanding is that you do not favor the two-state solution. Allen West: You mean creation of a Palestinian state? When has there ever been a Palestinian state? Well, if you don't favor the two-state solution, do you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Rush Limbaugh Digs Obama

    His most devout fans insist it's sarcasm, but it's not: Palm Beach's loudest gazillionaire began his Monday radio broadcast with breathless, effusive, totally over-the-top and completely sincere praise of President Obama. (See the video after the jump.)Said Limbaugh:Ladies and gentlemen, we need to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Did Allen West Just Compare Gays to Terrorists?

    West: Don't get gay on me.​It's April in the Year of Our Lord 2011, and most Floridians have reached an accommodation with Allen West. As summer looms and West's congressional career blossoms into maturity, he's almost begun to seem normal. He still hates Muslims, but at least he's polite about it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Allen West Is Pissed About Libya, Part I: Apology To Obama?

    Above you'll find Allen West, talking on Sunday at a the second anniversary picnic of Florida 9/12. He is speaking about President Barack Obama's weakness in the face of Muammar Gaddafi. "I don't care what anyone says -- you can't win a war from 30,000 feet," he says. Thank goodness we're not at war ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    How The Grinch Stole Allen West's Christmas

    Break ranks, soldier!​"What a week," wrote Congressman-elect Allen West to his supporters yesterday, "as we draw closer to a very Merry Christmas." On the evidence, Allen West defines "merry" a bit differently from the rest of us, for he spends the next fifteen paragraphs explaining Barack Obama's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Cal Thomas: Gays Will Keep Chaplains From Collecting Your Soul

    Cal Thomas.​Conservative columnist and over-syndicated radio blowhard Cal Thomas doesn't live around here, so he may not have seen our summary dismemberment of the suddenly-fashionable "chaplain's argument" against the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. But there he is, on the opinion page of our on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2010

    Ann Coulter Watch: Don't Call Our Troops Homophobes

    Coulter: all-gay batallions would scare the extremism out of the enemy.​Is there a Floridian more fun, more frisky, more flagrantly insane than Ann Coulter? Maybe! But if so, we don't know about it -- because that person, whoever s/he may be, doesn't do us the profound service of sharing his or h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Allen West, Ann Coulter, and Coral Ridge Ministries Can't Stop Thinking About Gay Soldiers

    Three South Floridians made uncommon waves with their opinions on don't ask, don't tell this week. One worried about the military worrying about sex, one decided that male Lady Gaga fans must be gay (which is true, actually), and one worried about the free speech of chaplains. 1. Allen West Wants th ... More >>

  • Music

    October 14, 2010

    AK1200 and Richie August Get Respectable's Bodies Moving

    Three South Floridians made uncommon waves with their opinions on don't ask, don't tell this week. One worried about the military worrying about sex, one decided that male Lady Gaga fans must be gay (which is true, actually), and one worried about the free speech of chaplains. 1. Allen West Wants th ... More >>

  • News

    September 23, 2010

    Experts Say a Deputy's Tale About Getting Shot Doesn't Add Up

    Three South Floridians made uncommon waves with their opinions on don't ask, don't tell this week. One worried about the military worrying about sex, one decided that male Lady Gaga fans must be gay (which is true, actually), and one worried about the free speech of chaplains. 1. Allen West Wants th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2010

    Dirty Day-Glo

    Three South Floridians made uncommon waves with their opinions on don't ask, don't tell this week. One worried about the military worrying about sex, one decided that male Lady Gaga fans must be gay (which is true, actually), and one worried about the free speech of chaplains. 1. Allen West Wants th ... More >>

  • Film

    June 24, 2010

    "Knight and Day" Review: Like Jason Bourne, Except Tom Cruise Won't Stop Talking

    Three South Floridians made uncommon waves with their opinions on don't ask, don't tell this week. One worried about the military worrying about sex, one decided that male Lady Gaga fans must be gay (which is true, actually), and one worried about the free speech of chaplains. 1. Allen West Wants th ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Juarez: The Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

    Three South Floridians made uncommon waves with their opinions on don't ask, don't tell this week. One worried about the military worrying about sex, one decided that male Lady Gaga fans must be gay (which is true, actually), and one worried about the free speech of chaplains. 1. Allen West Wants th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Retired Admiral Describes Dread of Spending Military Career in Closet

    Steinman​For gays serving in the U.S. military the fear of exposure exists at every level of the chain of command. Just ask Dr. Alan Steinman. In the early Nineties, Steinman served the four final years of a 25-year career a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard as its director of health and safety ... More >>

  • Music

    November 12, 2009

    Battalion of Saints A.D.

    Steinman​For gays serving in the U.S. military the fear of exposure exists at every level of the chain of command. Just ask Dr. Alan Steinman. In the early Nineties, Steinman served the four final years of a 25-year career a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard as its director of health and safety ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    Zombie Zoo

    Steinman​For gays serving in the U.S. military the fear of exposure exists at every level of the chain of command. Just ask Dr. Alan Steinman. In the early Nineties, Steinman served the four final years of a 25-year career a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard as its director of health and safety ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2009

    Nuclear Comedy

    Steinman​For gays serving in the U.S. military the fear of exposure exists at every level of the chain of command. Just ask Dr. Alan Steinman. In the early Nineties, Steinman served the four final years of a 25-year career a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard as its director of health and safety ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Rep. Hastings' Amendment a "Disturbing Piece of Legislation"?

    Approximately two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed an amendment, introduced by Congressman Alcee Hastings, that would prohibit people affiliated with hate groups from joining the military. The amendment is one of dozens tacked on to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 -- th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    One of the Worst Contractors in Iraq Lands in Palm Beach County

    Palm Beach County is running so smoothly these days, what it really needs is a taste of Iraqi-style contracting. Private companies rake in billions of dollars supporting the military operations in that stunningly successful war, so why shouldn't they also earn a buck or two at home? That's where Ke ... More >>

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    Camilo's Retreat

    He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

  • Home Entertainment

    April 26, 2007

    This Is Madness

    PSP players, tonight you game in hell.

  • News

    April 5, 2007

    The Bodyguard

    Special forces. National ad campaigns. Watching the backs of the big guys. Meet this Eastern European hottie.

  • News

    June 8, 2006

    From Gitmo With Love

    The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2006

    Air & Sea Show Boycott!

    The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

  • Home Entertainment

    December 15, 2005

    Virtual Quagmire

    The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire.

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    Err America

    A plane crash in Afghanistan has a Florida company defending its mercenary profits in court

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    Letters for January 6-12, 2005

    A plane crash in Afghanistan has a Florida company defending its mercenary profits in court

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    A plane crash in Afghanistan has a Florida company defending its mercenary profits in court

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Ammo Blues

    Maybe it's time for George W. to bring in the camels

  • Restaurants

    May 15, 2003

    Best Floor Show

    El Baraka

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Bobbing for War

    Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

  • Music

    December 26, 2002

    German Chocolate

    Paul van Dyk returns to high-bpm righteousness

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Big Cypress Buyout

    Proposed payment of millions to a wealthy clan amounts to nothing more than stealing from taxpayers for the Bush boys' political gain

  • Film

    August 3, 2000

    Old Hands

    Clint Eastwood directs a crew of veterans in his most engaging film in years

  • News

    September 16, 1999

    Full Metal Junket

    How one intrepid reporter spent a weekend of military training with some youngsters and came back a soldier. Sort of.

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    How one intrepid reporter spent a weekend of military training with some youngsters and came back a soldier. Sort of.

  • Calendar

    May 28, 1998

    A Real Trooper

    How one intrepid reporter spent a weekend of military training with some youngsters and came back a soldier. Sort of.

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