U.S. Armed Forces

Active Military & Veterans Get Discounts on Las Olas Restaurants For National Military Appreciation Month

Mission United and the United Way of Broward County have gotten together to honor the men and women who serve our country. As a way of saying "thank you" during National military appreciation month, several Las Olas businesses are providing discounts throughout May to veterans and active military p ... More >>

Drone-Banning Bill Passes Florida Senate Unanimously

Good news, everyone! It looks like it's going to be a little harder for the government to vaporize you with a drone, thanks to a 39-0 vote by the Florida Senate for SB 92. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Negron, who is the chamber's appropriations chair, the bill will keep local law enforcement officials fro ... More >>

Sequestration Means More Drugs Will Be Arriving in South Florida

The epic partisan clusterfrick in Washington known as sequestration is sure to put the squeeze on government budgets down the line. But an immediate impact on Uncle Sam's spending is already registering in military circles -- specifically, deployment. What does that mean? Basically it means the neig ... More >>

Veterans Day 2012 Discounts in South Florida: Food and Drink Specials and Freebies

Veterans Day 2012 is Sunday, November 11, and in a well-timed show of solidarity, voters in Florida this week voted "yes" on several veteran-friendly amendments included in the 20,000-page ballot. And while it's certainly not as momentous, the display of gratitude continues this weekend as local and ... More >>

Party Like a Hero For Heroes

Trend Alert: Lava Grills at Coco Asian Bistro

There are two main reasons to visit The Harbor Shops on 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale: A) to stock up at Total Wine and B) to dive headfirst into the red bean and coconut sticky rice dessert from Coco Asian Bistro, the shopping plaza's chic, pan-Asian restaurant. The extensive menu is anchored with ... 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 >>

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 >>

Craig Mallak Named New Broward Medical Examiner: What His Predecessor Messed Up Completely

Broward County announced last week that Craig Mallak is the new chief medical examiner and director of the Office of the Medical Examiner and Trauma Services. He's got a long résumé that includes a stint as medical examiner of the U.S. Armed Forces, where he ended up being the guy who identified S ... More >>

Allen West May Have a Totally Legitimate Point About the Afghanistan Qur'an Burning

​When Congressman Allen West starts talking about Islam, people whose livelihoods depend on pageviews usually break out their camcorders, because the odds are pretty good someone's going to get really offended.But West has posted several Facebook messages about the recent uproar over the burning o ... More >>

99.9 KISS Country Chili Cookoff: Fewer People, More Manners, Please

​If many of those in attendance at the 27th Annual 99.9 KISS Country Chili Cookoff were official representatives of the United States, they'd offer a sort of dim but realistic view of American history. We have a longstanding history of demonstrating unfailing pride for living in the ... More >>

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 >>

Free Beer, Food Trucks at 9/11-Related Events

9/11 events in Broward honor first responders, military.​There are several 9/11-related events this weekend, designed to pay tribute to the thousands of people who died on that day.  We're not listing them all, just the ones that seem to be food-related.  All events are scheduled for Sun ... More >>

Allen West on Gay Soldiers: "People Can Change Their Behavior, but I Can't Change My Color"

​Well, it didn't take too long for Rep. Allen West to make a statement that people are seeing as more outlandish than his last one.West was asked by an audience member at a speech Saturday night about openly gay people serving in the United States military, according to the Tampa Tribune.His respo ... More >>

"Captain America" Ignores Its Roots for Easy Money

Guns Online: No Permit Needed

Muslim Group "Welcomes Elimination of Osama Bin Laden"

Flickr/ Bird Eye Muslims protesting terrorism after the attacks in Mumbai. ​The Council on American -Islamic Relations is self-described as "America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization." CAIR positions itself as a peaceful organization that denounces terrorism and seeks to b ... More >>

Marco Rubio and Allen West on Bin Laden

​American fellow-feeling has been going down the shittah since mid-2009 or so, and for those few remaining true believers in the power of rational discourse and basic human decency, it's been a bum ride. Everything is political lately, it seems, and in the worst way. Left and right America agree o ... 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 >>

Allen West: Foiled By Collective Bargainers and Community Organizers

This kiss will be interrupted by a community organizer.​When will the crazy stop? Rep. Allen West is a man -- a two-hundred-poundish, handsome, intelligent man, with his own ideas, experiences, memories, loves, dislikes, hatreds, prejudices, whathaveyou. He is not a canvas.Yet that's what lots of ... More >>

Jared Lee Loughner's Lunatic Rantings Prove That Politically He's ...

It's amazing how people are trying to figure out Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner's political philosophy. He's a registered Republican, they say (hoax). He's a liberal pot smoker (according to a former classmate who didn't know him well). He's was predisposed to right ... 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 >>

U.S. Army Culinary Arts Team Takes World Cup Gold

​Great food and the US military are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. In fact, Army mess hall dinners and Meals Ready to Eat are associated with the worst eating experiences for good reason. Imagine everyone's surprise, then, when the Army's Culinary Arts Team (didja even know they had o ... More >>

"The Tillman Story" Sets the Record Straight

Top Five Other Menial Jobs That May Be Path to al Qaeda Leadership

"By a show of hands, who wants to be my personal assistant?"​If the FBI is to be believed, Adnan El Shukijumah is the terrorist's version of a Cinderella story, having worked his way up from dishwasher to his current rank as director of overseas operations. Granted, this former Miramar resident di ... More >>

The Crazies Stages Nifty Action Sequences in Remake

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 >>

War of Words

Hey Barack: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

No to be contrary, but I'm not remotely bothered by the fact that the incoming president is a smoker. Or at least I'm not as concerned as Palm Beach Post columnist Rhonda Swan who today demanded that Obama "Quit Smoking, Period."This habit makes him human. The man who directed the most disciplined c ... More >>

Karate Chop!

Auto-Chaotic

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it´s good to know Michael Bay won´t ever change

Discrimination Sucks Out Loud

It's official: Burning blew

Air & Sea Show Boycott!

Virtual Quagmire

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

Heckuva Job

Yo, Bat Mitzvah Sweetie

One Way to Skin the FCAT

More Than Wasted Time

Scream On

Grab your guns, and get in the pit

Vested Interests

War has been good for Pompano Beach's Point Blank Body Armor

Bach in the Saddle

Alex Bach

Bombs & Bikinis

Stealth aims low but hits its mark

Weirdos!

Second Run

Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

The Deadliest Day

Noncombatants pushing 40, the Florida Seabees unit weren't supposed to be anywhere near the fighting

Letters for July 17, 2003

Hair trigger

Gunning for Profit

Opportunists make a fortune supplying guerrillas and terrorists from South Florida gun shops

Saving Private Mad Max

The Patriot is a sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving crowd pleaser -- in the best possible sense

Night & Day

May 27 - June 2, 1999