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U.S. Army

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Allen West Is Totally Bailing on His Entire Congressional District

    ​Ladies and gentlemen of District 22, at this time next year, you will be completely rid of Congressman Allen West.Faced with an unfriendly redistricting proposal and growing opposition from national groups including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, West announced this evening that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Mavericks High Charter Schools Not Accredited

    ​Records show that the Mavericks in Education Florida charter schools, which have a high-profile lobbyist and cheerleader in Frank Biden, are not accredited high schools. This means their graduates may have trouble playing college sports or receiving federally funded grants or scholarships to coll ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Westboro Baptist "Church" Coming to Fort Lauderdale to Scare Children

    ​Fred Phelps and the rest of the "God hates fags" crew from the Westboro Baptist Church in Nowhere, Kansas, say they're coming to Fort Lauderdale on December 8.Remember, Fred Phelps told the Pulp back in July that he was gathering up the gang to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Florida Employers Laid Off 1,638 Workers in September, According to Report

    ​September's numbers on employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics aren't due until Friday, but a private report says 1,638 Floridians were laid off last month.The consultants at Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. released their findings this morning, reporting that more than 115,000 Americ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2011

    Westboro Bapist Weirdos a No-Show. That Would Make Fred Phelps a Flaming Liar

    Those would be the pants of Fred Phelps​The creeps from the Westboro Baptist "Church" didn't show up to the funeral for 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher Schumann in Fort Pierce last night, which is good news for the rest of the 6.95 billion people on earth who aren't part of the Kansa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Westboro Baptist Nuts Coming to Protest Soldier's Funeral Tonight

    How to identify the creeps that will be showing up in Fort Pierce tonight​The Kansas crazies are coming.Westboro Baptist "Church" Pastor Fred Phelps tells New Times that the church's minions are coming to Fort Pierce tonight to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Westboro Baptist Creeps Planning Florida Funeral Protest in Response to Proposed Bill

    thegatewaypundit.comWestboro Baptist weirdos.​It looks like the Westboro Baptist "Church" is interpreting State Rep. Pat Rooney's military funeral buffer-zone bill as an invitation.The Kansas crazies haven't placed it on their public schedule yet, but the Palm Beach Post reports the "Thank God for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Westboro Baptist Nuts May Be Met With Violence Unless Bill Passes, Sponsor Says

    via Flickr user Burstein​State Rep. Pat Rooney is aware that everyone else on earth not related to the Phelps family of the Westboro Baptist "Church" thinks they're gang of lunatics.Aside from the previous reasons for his military funeral buffer-zone bill, Rep. Rooney has added another to the list ... More >>

  • Film

    June 9, 2011

    J.J. Abrams Deploys Humor and Destruction in His Superfun, Superloud Catastrophe Flick "Super 8"

    via Flickr user Burstein​State Rep. Pat Rooney is aware that everyone else on earth not related to the Phelps family of the Westboro Baptist "Church" thinks they're gang of lunatics.Aside from the previous reasons for his military funeral buffer-zone bill, Rep. Rooney has added another to the list ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2011

    Allen West's No-B.S. Weekend: Disses Bush, Palin

    This has been a bullshit-busting kind of weekend for Allen West.First, he showed up in Fox News Sunday, talking smack about his own party's recent history. He was debating Donna Edwards, the Democrat congresswoman from Maryland, when host Chris Wallace asked:Congressman West, Republicans offered a p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Interview with Coco Asia's Owner and Chef, Mike Ponluang, Part One

    ​Mike Ponluang, owner and executive chef of Coco Asian Bistro & Bar, has traveled the world, learning and teaching elegant Thai food preparation. He attended Siam Business School and worked as a cook at the Chaopraya Hotel, the open mess for United States Army officers stationed there dur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    KBR Subsidiary Wins Contract to Build Trash Burner in Palm Beach

    Flickr user: U.S. ArmyKBR has a horrific track record in Iraq.​Despite protests by union workers, environmentalists, and competitors, the Palm Beach County Commission yesterday handed one of its largest public works contracts to a company owned by controversial war contractor KBR.Acting as the Sol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2011

    "Connected Warriors" Yoga Class for Veterans Combats Trauma with Mindfulness

    ​A bunch of grizzled veterans sit around in a hot room, bending into strange contortions. No, it's not an off night at the Elks Club. It's a new program that offers free yoga classes to armed-services veterans.The "Connected Warrior" classes, currently at Yoga South in Boca Raton, are led by ... More >>

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Rib Round Up Boasts a Day of Eats and Country at Cruzan

    ​A bunch of grizzled veterans sit around in a hot room, bending into strange contortions. No, it's not an off night at the Elks Club. It's a new program that offers free yoga classes to armed-services veterans.The "Connected Warrior" classes, currently at Yoga South in Boca Raton, are led by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Allen West as a History Teacher

    FlickrAllen West was more comfortable in military gear than in a teacher's civilian garb.​Followers of the Allen West congressional campaign have heard plenty about his career in the U.S. Army. But in building his personal narrative, the Republican candidate tends to skip over the job he took imme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    On Wikipedia, Allen West's Heroism Unsullied

    FlickrAllen West​They revere him because he says what most Republican candidates think but don't say. Yet the tea partiers and right wingers who support Allen West's bid for Congress apparently feel the need to protect him from his boldest, most controversial statements and to recast the 2003 inci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Corrupt Contractor KBR Under Fire in Palm Beach County; Anyone Surprised?

    Flickr user: The U.S. ArmySoldiers in Iraq know KBR's sordid history.​A front-page story in today's Palm Beach Post blasts the Houston-based engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) for not hiring enough local workers on its $200 million solid waste project in western Palm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Allen West Abuse of Iraqi Prisoner Highlighted in Bestselling Book

    Flickr: nojam75​An excerpt from Tom Ricks' 2006 book Fiasco alleges that former U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West -- a candidate for Congress in Broward and Palm Beach -- had to be told by a subordinate that the interrogation of an Iraqi detainee had gone too far.For background on that August 2003 int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Patriot Act: Tea Partiers on the Lookout for Spies

    Flickr: pargonTeabonics: not just for patriots anymore.​In advance of the tea party rally Thursday, local activists are circulating tips for how to spot a liberal prankster seeking to infiltrate, then sabotage. According to a note sent to "patriots," these spies can be detected thus:  1) They ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Allen West Trained Muslim Fighters -- Before Declaring U.S. Must Fight Muslims

    Flickr: South Florida Tea PartyWest (left) posing with tea party protesters, who admire his blunt style.​During his 2010 congressional campaign, Allen West has talked tough not just about terrorism but about the Muslim world. In a speech that gained national attention last month he charged that Is ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2009

    Rock Your Buzz

    Flickr: South Florida Tea PartyWest (left) posing with tea party protesters, who admire his blunt style.​During his 2010 congressional campaign, Allen West has talked tough not just about terrorism but about the Muslim world. In a speech that gained national attention last month he charged that Is ... More >>

  • Film

    November 5, 2009

    The Men Who Stare at Goats Proves That Aliens Abducted George Clooney's Sense of Humor

    Flickr: South Florida Tea PartyWest (left) posing with tea party protesters, who admire his blunt style.​During his 2010 congressional campaign, Allen West has talked tough not just about terrorism but about the Muslim world. In a speech that gained national attention last month he charged that Is ... More >>

  • Film

    July 23, 2009

    Set to Explode

    As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie.

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    U.S. Army Spring Collection Hits Lauderdale Runway; This Season Armor, M60s Are Back!

    Lockheed MartinThe JLTV2: liable to lure rednecks to enlist. The  U.S. Army has a recruitment problem. With Norris, Schwarzenegger and Stallone too old to slaughter faceless, incompetent soldiers, the commando's life has lost some of its luster. The thousands of U.S. soldiers who have died in I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Soldier From Hollywood Facing Manslaughter Charge

    width=330; height=280; wral_insert_video_player_4390406(width,height); Christopher Mignocchi, a 22-year-old U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., is among seven soldiers charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death last July of Pfc. Luke Brown, according to a North Carolina newsp ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    Toy Soldiers

    Be all that you can be — in war games with almost-real assault weapons

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    WTF Is It?!? Round 6.9

    Be all that you can be — in war games with almost-real assault weapons

  • Home Entertainment

    May 8, 2008

    There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty.

    Be all that you can be — in war games with almost-real assault weapons

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Letters for May 24-30, 2007

    Be all that you can be — in war games with almost-real assault weapons

  • Film

    March 22, 2007

    Threat-Level: Killer Tadpole

    Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2006

    Bring on the Dancing Horses

    Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside

  • Home Entertainment

    December 15, 2005

    Virtual Quagmire

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

  • Culture

    May 26, 2005

    War Bonds

    At the Mosaic Theatre, limping home from Iraq means renegotiating the family

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2005

    Holiday In!

    At the Mosaic Theatre, limping home from Iraq means renegotiating the family

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2005

    Blowin' Smoke

    At the Mosaic Theatre, limping home from Iraq means renegotiating the family

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2005

    Powwow Wow

    Four days of tribal fun -- and how!

  • Music

    August 5, 2004

    Beat Keeper

    DJ Cato K discovered his love of dance music amid the din of gunfire

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Letters May 6-12, 2004

    Save 'em from slaughter; end the travesty:

  • Film

    November 27, 2003

    Indian Giver

    The Missing misses plenty, except ancient prejudices

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The Missing misses plenty, except ancient prejudices

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Beach Head

    At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up dance music while the U.S. blows up Iraq

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Letters for January 2, 2003

    Complimentary Copy

  • Film

    January 17, 2002

    Hell and Back

    Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

  • Culture

    May 17, 2001

    In Cold Blood

    Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

  • Culture

    January 11, 2001

    Know Your Enemy

    For the characters in Buffalo Soldier, friend and foe became hard to distinguish

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    Undercurrents

    For the characters in Buffalo Soldier, friend and foe became hard to distinguish

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    For the characters in Buffalo Soldier, friend and foe became hard to distinguish

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    For the characters in Buffalo Soldier, friend and foe became hard to distinguish

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