On a quiet Sunday morning, the sanctuary is full. Children shuffle into pews. A greeter smiles at the door. The worship team begins to play. Now imagine this: a raised voice in the lobby. A door that should have remained closed swings open. A volunteer freezes for half a second too long. In critical moments, hesitation is not caused by…
Summary and Key Points: Congress has written a law named after the sound an aircraft’s gun makes. The Bolstering Recognition, Resurgence, Retention, and Remembrance of the Thunderbolt Act spells BRRRRT, which is what the A-10 Warthog’s GAU-8/A 30mm cannon sounds like, and it would require the US Air Force to…
Summary and Key Points: When the US Navy set out to sink the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS America in 2005, it took 4 weeks. There was no crew aboard, no one fighting the flooding, and no one trying to save her. That is the measure of how hard it is…
Summary and Key Points: China operates around 21 Type 039 Yuan-class attack submarines, each 77.6 meters long, displacing about 3,600 tons submerged, and carrying 6 533mm torpedo tubes loaded with Yu-6 heavyweight torpedoes and YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missiles. They are slower than any American nuclear submarine, and they will always…
A trove of documents released Tuesday by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani show that city officials masked health concerns in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, even as they were privy to the potential hazards. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced the release of more…
The Brief: The Department of Justice has reactivated the federal process for restoring firearm rights under 18 U.S.C. § 925(c), shifting review authority to the Office of the Pardon Attorney. This ends a decades-long blockade, allowing individuals prohibited from owning firearms due to past nonviolent offenses to petition for relief.…
Summary and Key Points: Boeing built a stealth aircraft with its own money, out of parts taken from other airplanes, and flew it 38 times at Area 51 before anyone outside the program knew it existed. The YF-118G Bird of Prey cost roughly $67,000,000 — Boeing’s own, not the Pentagon’s…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
September 11 has reached a strange place in American memory. For those of us who…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
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