U.S. Army

Florida Woman Sentenced For Collecting Donations For Dead Soldier Sons Who Were Never Actually Dead

Shirley Ann Duncan was given over $1,000 in donations, including housewares, clothes and furniture, thanks to the selfless generosity of a Port Charlotte church when she told them that her four sons were killed in combat overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. The church even held a memorial service for ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Rock Your Buzz

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

Set to Explode

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

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 >>

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 >>

Toy Soldiers

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

WTF Is It?!? Round 6.9

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

Letters for May 24-30, 2007

Threat-Level: Killer Tadpole

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

Bring on the Dancing Horses

Virtual Quagmire

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

War Bonds

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

Holiday In!

Blowin' Smoke

Powwow Wow

Four days of tribal fun -- and how!

Beat Keeper

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

Letters May 6-12, 2004

Save 'em from slaughter; end the travesty:

Indian Giver

The Missing misses plenty, except ancient prejudices

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Beach Head

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

Letters for January 2, 2003

Complimentary Copy

Hell and Back

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

In Cold Blood

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

Know Your Enemy

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

Undercurrents

The Straight Dope

The Straight Dope