Armed Forces

Miami Dolphins Want To Have a Game on an Aircraft Carrier

Fresh off their rejection of trying to get public funding for their stadium renovations, the Miami Dolphins' head honchos are preparing to make a bid to host a Super Bowl by presenting a winning idea: Having a football game played on a real-life Navy aircraft carrier! *high five!* According to th ... More >>

Pub Crawl On Wheels

Fleet Week Has Not Been Canceled, but It Won't Be the Same This Year

It looks like Fleet Week went kaput thanks to the government sequestration, meaning that Navy battleships and crazy aerobatic airplanes won't be coming to Port Everglades this year. However, local organizers are still planning to use local military personnel to have Fleet Week, so all is not lost. ... More >>

Assault Rifles Are Big Business in Florida as Federal Ban Looms

Rush Limbaugh Says "Leftists" Using Newtown to Promote Anti-Gun Agenda

Didn't take conservative blowfish blowhard Rush Limbaugh long to jump into the Newtown fray and open his mouth hole to say things about how the media, the Left, Democrats, and all other Pee-On-the-American-Flag-and-Use-the-Constitution-to-Wipe-Their-Dicks Freedom-Hating Groups to come out and try to ... More >>

FAU Ranked 31st on Annual Trojan Condoms Study

College students have a lot of sex. This much you already knew.But what you might not have known is that they're being smart about it. Especially here in Florida.Safe sex awwriiight!!Trojan Condoms did their annual rankings how healthy college students' sex life is on 141 U.S. colleges and universit ... More >>

Party Like a Hero For Heroes

How Allen West Uses the Military and Ignores Its Biggest Problems

The political entity that is Congressman Allen West would not exist without the military. It is his sole qualification for office, and he touts it at every opportunity. You would be hard-pressed to find any public statement from "the Colonel" that doesn't mention his military service, and he's justi ... More >>

Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson: Don't Bury Vets in Cardboard Boxes

It's a small bill, but we've finally got a hint of bipartisanship in Florida.Lawrence Davis was a World War II veteran who died without any family, any money -- or any casket. He was buried in a Florida national cemetery in 2004 in a cardboard box. His body was discovered years later by maintenance ... More >>

Allen West Praises G.I. Bill in Same Week He Calls Student Loans Communist

Last week we told you about Allen West's assertion that federal student loans are communist, something found "in a book written by Marx or Engels called The Communist Manifesto." He said in a video posted June 14 that "it's called the state control of education."Well, two days after that video was p ... More >>

Defense Department Flying Drones From Three South Florida Locales

The U.S. Department of Defense is conducting drone operations from at least four sites in Florida, and it plans to add three more sites in the future, according to data gathered and released by the nonprofit Public Intelligence. The group released this week an interactive Google map that shows ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour on March 14 at Hard Rock Live

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Guns Online: No Permit Needed

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

AK1200 and Richie August Get Respectable's Bodies Moving

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

Juarez: The Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

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 >>

Battalion of Saints A.D.

Zombie Zoo

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 >>

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 >>

Camilo's Retreat

He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

This Is Madness

PSP players, tonight you game in hell.

The Bodyguard

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

Air & Sea Show Boycott!

Virtual Quagmire

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

Err America

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

Letters for January 6-12, 2005

Ammo Blues

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

Best Floor Show

El Baraka

Bobbing for War

Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

German Chocolate

Paul van Dyk returns to high-bpm righteousness

Full Metal Junket

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

The Straight Dope

A Real Trooper