The Beer Barrel

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=576

Generals, admirals and politicians have been pushing the panic button repeatedly in recent weeks over proposed cuts to the Pentagon’s budget.

But don’t tell that to the forward thinkers who are shaping the future of the U.S. Army.

Army strategists say they...

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011...after-smashing-up-sacramento-starbucks-store/

November 1, 2011 8:49 AM

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Talk about a caffeine kick.

A morning trip to get a cup of coffee turned into more than several customers bargained for at a Sacramento-area Starbucks when an angry panhandler...

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...dlers-plead-for-city-to-get-tough-2247423.php

By Guillermo X. Garcia
ggarcia@express-news.net
Updated 01:59 a.m., Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Olga Kucerak loves walking downtown during the early evening, but she makes sure to carry Mace.

One...

North Georgia Men Arrested, Charged in Plots to Purchase Explosives, Silencer and to Manufacture a Biological Toxin
U.S. Attorney’s Office November 01, 2011

* Northern District of Georgia (404) 581-6000

— filed under: Breaking News, Press Release

ATLANTA—Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, Ga.; Dan Roberts, 67, of Toccoa, Ga.; Ray H....

The Protestant View (according to Monty Python)
The NYT reports:

Breaking a Long Silence on Population Control...