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True enough. Other significant examples: police shootings, military shootings. In fact the state has always been the final arbiter of the legitimate use of violence. However, there is quite a...

I missed this event entirely when it happened, but had to respond when I saw it just now. Manstein, you are a stand-up guy. I honestly can not imagine a better CoM. A terrible loss for TWC. Good luck...

Cheers lads. ;)

I can only hope. :laughter:

Hmmm, there have been a few (Cpn Arghhh comes to mind); and they inspired this one. Do I get a little reppy-rep for correcting you!? :)

Well, it's time for me to say my goodbyes. In a few weeks' time I'll be going into the U.S. Army, and for all practical purposes I will be absent for TWC for at least 8 months, if not longer due to...

Welcome to Samurai and Julius!

There are currently two recipients of the Medal of Honor from the Iraq War, both of whom were KIA:

Jason Dunham (US Marine Corps) -- for taking a nade for his fellow Marines...

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Paul Smith...

I'm sure those ****ers who detonate trucks full of tnt in in the middle of baghdad markets think they are in the midst of jihad... What's worse, an infidel, or an infidel who is supposed to know...

Pulling out would be a disaster; all the money and lives spent over the past few fews would be for naught, and we would end up having to return there in the future anyway...

Well, if is this were RL, there'd be bloodied, mangled corpses strewn throughout the TD and Curia...

Anyway, as long as I win something, I support! :tongue:

Welcome Socal!

@selenius

...that's what you get for stealing finneys from me!!! :sword:

It's a genealogy of citizenship essentially which I for one find interesting.

Not at all. I'm saying we/they should always be searching for new ways/ideas of tackling the problem rather than being content with our current approaches to it.

You didn't make that clear at...

I think bi-annual is over the top (and I haven't even been here a year yet!) But, if this is more for fun than being anything super-meaningful, that's a different story...

...or the assumption that we are doing all we can do...

The Soviets were a different enemy; they did not melt into large immigrant communities and organize isolated attacks on civilian...

Could someone please tell me what "CB" stands for? Also, why do the Spartans look like they're out of "300". Spartans wore armor, always. Other than that, love the work.

Or you could say that Germany has more clarity of mind when it comes to these measures. For them to consider such taboo subjects is indicative of how terrorism is changing how Europeans think about...

@enoch

No way.

@Scorch

They are very liberal (I can vouch for this from experience). And the Holocaust touches a nerve with Germans that few non-Germans can understand. Beyond that, the...

I found this article particularly poignant. Germany, a state liberal to the point of fanaticism, now has ministers seriously grappling with a the new civil environment created by international...

Of course... any rifle that looks scary. :laughter: For those of us who are around firearms, we know that it is technically any semi-automatic weapon that uses detachable magazines. So, any modern...

The level of civil culture in a society is key to this entire argument. Where you have a strong civil culture, an armed citizenry is ideal (Switzerland. Isreal). Where there is a weak civil culture,...

Amen to that. When the Islamic world moves in unison against these kinds of people I think everyone will respect them (and genuinely, not the faux patronization of some in West). After all is said...

Yep, there is a mountain of literature that debates the 2nd Amendment. The Founders' writings on the subject do a good deal to clarify that they intended for all citizens to be armed however.

A...

BAH!

A spectre is haunting TWC -- the spectre of curialism. All the powers of old TWC have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Imb39 and Halie Satanus, Publius and Simetrical,...

I'm from around Asheville, North Carolina. The question is, what are you doing trespassing!? :tongue: As far as being trigger happy, both I, my brother and my father carry concealed weapons for...

Smaller, more homogeneous countries tend to have less crime. The fact that they are smaller and tighter-knit usually equates to having lower levels of crime. And I would wager that the crime you do...

We aren't done yet. To pull out now means throwing away the efforts of those who have been killed and wounded there so far.

Most gun owners are more proficient than criminal gun users, simply because for most of them it is a hobby as well. Those who get concealed carry licenses have to take a class to become proficient in...

Transformers!

Sounds like a good idea. I think patrons should take the lead in announcing their new underlings here just to make sure everyone gets listed. By the way Atterday, Socal Infidel now belongs to the...

In fact, Switzerland is exactly our model for the 2nd amendment, but not for economic reasons. Even a cursory look at the founding fathers' writings will show you that their ideas of gun ownership...

I was raised with firearms around me as child. Naturally I think they are the keystone to American liberty. It's only when I drive through downtown Cleveland or Charlotte that I realize there really...

^^^ How the hecks did you get Tancredo at 51 and Kucinich at 48? They're polar opposites!! You must be one confused fellow. :P

Who says we aren't? You also have to keep in mind that Pakistan without Musharraf could be a nightmare for us. To make him look bad means that we have another enemy. Best to let him do most of the...

Obviously my concern was not with economic, but foreign policy.
I don't find comfort in someone who fights after we are attacked. The Iraq war was a preventative war, which is for more preferable...

I'm surprised by this tacit support of the insurgents considering some of the other things you've posted. Firstly, by far the great majority of the "Iraqi" insurgency is focused on killing and...

That's all excellent. But Ron Paul essentially advocates an isolationist foreign policy that just isn't workable in today's world. You have to be able to get out of bed and order the US Army to stomp...

I think Thompson is so sure of his powers of persuasion that he is going to let the official field beat themselves to death as he sits on his porch telling stories about Tennessee backwoodsmen. Then,...

It's at the very top as well, in big red letters with yellow highlighting; its just hard to see in all that goobledygoop on that page...

^^^ The TWC Ron Paul craze is hilarious. This is perhaps the only place in the world where there are a lot of people talking about him as if he were a.) a good candidate and b.) a viable candidate....

I think Fred Thompson is the best in the field. He's got the experience and the charisma needed for leadership; and he's fairly conservative... He may be just what the Republican Party needs after...