The Beer Barrel

Trouble in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
The Coming Dash for Gas
Yuri M. Zhukov
March 20, 2013

A small country hemmed in on its land borders by adversaries, Israel has always relied on the Mediterranean to avoid commercial...

Better start stock piling food, ammo and weapons if you haven't already!

I do a lot of photography, if you want to call it that, of Confederate cemeteries and such. There always seems to be an unused flagpole in the middle. What happened to the flags?

Fast forward: Ft. Fisher, North Carolina. They've still got it going there:

March 22, 2013
Cyprus, Russia - and Syria

By Michael Weiss

Just as I was getting used to thinking of Cyprus as the Mediterranean clime where Hezbollah agents go to spy on ‘the Jews’ and Rami...

Ryan's budget rejected in Senate on 40-59 vote
By Ramsey Cox- 03/21/13 08:52 PM ET

The Senate rejected House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget Thursday night.

Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) forced Senate Republicans to vote on Paul’s plan through an amendment she offered, which failed on a...