[NYT] Judith Clark, who drove a getaway car in the infamous 1981 robbery of a Brink’s armored car in Rockland County, N.Y., that left a guard and two police officers dead, went into prison defiant, with seemingly little chance of getting out. The judge who sentenced her saw her as beyond rehabilitation, giving her a minimum of 75 years in prison and all but ensuring she would die there.
But Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, citing what he called Ms. Clark’s long sentence and "exceptional strides in self-development" commuted her sentence on Friday.
Mr. Cuomo’s action does not undo Ms. Clark’s conviction on second-degree murder and robbery charges, but it reduces her sentence to 35 years to life and makes her eligible for parole in 2017.
If Ms. Clark is freed, it would be in recognition of her evolution from radical to model prisoner, and serve as a coda to a notorious case that was among the last gasps of violent left-wing extremism seen in the 1960s and 1970s.
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She was more than just a getaway driver. When finally caught she was reaching under seat for a loaded gun
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WTF! Cuomo a typical lib is concerned about the perp and doesn't give a rat's behind about the families of the dead victims. He is more like an accessory after the fact than a governor. Well if the voters of New York State keep reelecting him that says something.
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It's not that the "last gasps of violent left-wing extremism" have fallen out of favor; it's that those sentiments and attitudes have become mainstream on the left.
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SOMERVILLE ‐ A five-day, round-the-clock manhunt for a potentially dangerous federal fugitive who made a brazen escape from a Rhode Island detention center ended Thursday with a foot chase in Somerville, where a veteran state trooper snared James W. Morales as he tried to jump a fence in the Ten Hills neighborhood.
The 114-hour search, which began when Morales was discovered missing during a New Year's Eve head count at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, came to a dramatic end around 4 p.m.
Somerville and Cambridge had been on alert all day, attuned to the sound of helicopters overhead and the sight of police searching everywhere from bustling Central Square to the quiet marsh around Alewife Station...
Morales, a former Army Reserve medical logistics specialist, was being held in Rhode Island while awaiting trial for allegedly breaking into a Worcester armory in 2015 and cutting through the ceiling of a weapons vault to steal six assault rifles and 10 semiautomatic pistols. At the time, he was wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet while awaiting trial on child-rape charges that originated in Cambridge.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Bobby Rush (D., Ill.) made payments to four family members that combined to more than $100,000 during the 2016 election cycle, campaign finance records show.
A wellness center associated with the church the congressman founded also received more than $2 million in government grants last year.
Rep. Rush, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, made $50,000 in payments to his wife, Carolyn, during the 2016 cycle for "consulting fees." This was not the first time Carolyn has received money from the campaign committee.
Since 2002, the year Carolyn first appeared on the committee’s payroll, she has been the top recipient of expenditures from the campaign numerous times and has since collected more than $550,000 in payments from her husband’s campaign.
Marlon Rush, Rep. Rush’s brother, was paid $34,082 throughout the course of the 2016 campaign to act as his campaign manager. Rush, who defeated Barack Obama by more than 31 percent during a Democratic primary in Chicago’s 1st congressional district in 2000, has faced no real challenge since being elected in the early 1990s. Rush defeated his Republican challenger by nearly 50 points in the 2016 election.
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.... Former Black Panther, weren't he? Just askin'.
Mike
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Another "rising dem star." Hopefully asking Blago for soap handling advice in the near future...
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If they did the work, those are not excessive salaries. But while campaign manager is a standard job title, what consultants do is a good deal more nebulous.
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If they did the work, those are not excessive salaries. But while campaign manager is a standard job title, what consultants do is a good deal more nebulous.
Would acting as narcotics conduit fit the category of nebulous ?
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Doesn't he know that you're supposed to form a charity foundation like the Clinton Foundation which only gives about 5.4% of its intake to actual charities?
[Free Beacon] Four people were charged Thursday with a hate crime in Chicago in connection with a live-stream video that allegedly showed them torturing and assaulting a teenager with special needs.
The four African-American individuals also face a slew of other charges relating to the incident, according to ABC 7 News in Chicago.
Jordan Hill, 18, of Carpentersville; Tesfaye Cooper, 18, of Chicago; Brittany Covington, 18, of Chicago; and Tanishia Covington, 24, of Chicago were each charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and residential burglary. Hill was also charged with robbery and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
The video shows the victim, who police said has mental disabilities, was forced to drink toilet water, slashed, beaten, and yelled at.
[MEDIAITE] CNN host Don Lemon pushed back Wednesday night after a conservative panelist labeled four Chicagoans torturing a mentally handicapped man and posting the video live on Facebook “evil.”
Daily Caller columnist Matt Lewis called the video “sickening” and said the assault– during which the assailants chanted “F*** white people” and “F** Donald Trump“– was just another example of the problem of evil. “At the end of the day, you just try to wrap your head around evil,“ he said. “That’s what this is: it’s evil, it’s brutality, it’s man’s inhumanity to man.”
While denouncing the video, Lemon wasn’t willing to go that far. “I don’t think it’s evil,” he said. “I don’t think it’s evil. I think these are young people and I think they have bad home training.”
“I have no idea who is raising these young people, because no one I know on earth who is 17-years-old or 70-years-old would ever think of treating another person like that,” he continued. “You wonder, at 18-years-old, where is your parent, where is your guardian? If you're convinced there's no such thing as Evil then this little recreational session by street lice wasn't evil.
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"In order for evil to triumph good men only need do nothing." If you endorse evil then you will eventually be called on it. I suggest using a large foot ball stadium be used to celebrate BLM and invite all the white enablers...then drop the fuel air bomb.
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Evil and horrible parents produce evil and horrible offspring.
Nevertheless that has little bearing on the problem of what to do after these monstrous offspring jump out of their closets and prey on the innocent among the rest of us. The past can't be changed.
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It's all by design. Destroy the family, substitute the state as the 'bread winner'. De-normalize morality. Rationalize the de-civilization of a society. Lower education standards, lower moral standards, all for one group who get a pass based solely on their politically determined identity. Declare anyone a racist who disagrees.
[ABC News] Police in Chandler, Arizona, have released surveillance footage from an April 2016 shootout that left two officers injured and the suspect dead.
On April 23, 2016, at around 6:21 a.m., Officers Joshua Pueblo and Daniel Colwell responded to a non-emergency call about a person trespassing at a Walmart store, police said.
Colwell arrived first and spoke with the suspect, whom police identified as Mitchell Oakley. Police said that shortly after Pueblo arrived, Oakley then shot both officers multiple times.
In the video footage, which shows multiple angles of the scene unfolding, officers can be seen talking with Oakley, who is seated in a chair in front of them. As Oakley stands up, he suddenly starts shooting as shoppers scatter.
[NYDAILYNEWS] A New Jersey soldier set to deploy to the Middle East in just a few months was met with violence when he traveled home to visit his widowed mother for the holidays.
U.S. Army Serviceman Austin Freni was reportedly attacked and brutally beaten by a group of young men while he was walking with his mother, Lori Freni, after the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on New Year’s Day, NJ.com reported.
The attack was prompted, Lori Freni said, by the fact that her son was wearing his Army jacket, according to Fox 23. She said a group of 10 to 15 men walked by them making "derogatory comments" about the jacket, and then one of them took a swing at her 19-year-old son.
Immediately after, the rest of the group piled on top of Austin, she said.
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[Breitbart] Newly arrived Fox News host Tucker Carlson will take over the coveted 9 p.m. time-slot left by the departure of Megyn Kelly, who is heading to NBC later this year.
The 47-year-old host of Tucker Carlson Tonight joined the network just two months ago as a replacement for outgoing host Greta van Susteren. His 7 p.m. show has been a hit, averaging 2.8 million total viewers and posting strong ratings in the key 18-49 demo, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Carlson will begin hosting the 9 p.m. hour on Monday, January 9. Kelly’s last day at the network is Friday, January 6.
Arlington cemetery is full of 'indispensable men.'
Title courtesy of M. Murcek, who submitted the same story.
An engine dropped out of a B-52 bomber during a training flight on Wednesday, the Air Force has confirmed.
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey...
A B-52 bomber on a training flight near Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota lost one of eight Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3/103 turbofan engines mid-flight.
Don't you just hate when that happens?
The crew declared an in-flight emergency when the pilot discovered that an engine departed the aircraft and were able to land the aircraft safely without any injury to the five personnel on board.
It departed, did it? Did it leave its tray table in the upright and locked position? Did it remember to check the seat back for personal items? Was it careful upon opening the hatch of the overhead luggage storage compartment in case contents inside had shifted?
An Air Force helicopter sent to recover the wreckage “located possible engine debris” in an unpopulated area about 25 nautical miles northeast of the base, Air Force officials added.
BOMBS AWAYYYYY!!!
Officials said that there was no threat to public safety and that an investigation has been started.
Wing commander, master crew chief, and ground operations chiefs all going to be losing their jobs...
'We lost an engine'...gains an entirely new meaning.
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Officials said that there was no threat to public safety and that an investigation has been started.
Wing commander, master crew chief, and ground operations chiefs all going to be losing their jobs...
Sadly, the best case scenario here is some incredible fudge-up on the part of the maintainers - if Miss Buffy has developed some sort of structural problem, that will be it for the fleet.....
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Officials said that there was no threat to public safety...
This was true after the engine stopped bouncing...
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Old craft. Made by Boeing who had just a few years earlier turned out the B-17. Kill some time on google pics to see what shape some of those aircraft looked like after a spin over Germany. You ask yourself, how in the hell did that fly home.
Actually, you need all the engines to get the bird aloft. Once aloft you can still operate on less thrust unless you get a critical.
B-52, the closest thing the zoomies have to a M2. Something that does it job so well, its really hard to come up with a replacement (that doesn't cost 18 trillion dollars).
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My first thought when I read the articles was "It could not be for very long, but if the engine was running when it dropped loose, it had to keep running for a second or four even minus fuel, air, hydraulic and electrical connections." Like something out of a Bruce Willis Die Hard movie...
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[AlAhram] Morocco has ordered the closure of schools it says are linked to a US-based Islamic preacher that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... blames for a failed coup last year, the interior ministry said.
"Investigations on the establishments of the Mohammed al-Fatih group, linked to Turkish national Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , showed they use education to spread the group's ideology and ideas contrary to the principles of the Moroccan educational and religious system," a ministry statement said.
After a series of warnings from the education ministry, "it was decided all the group's educational establishments would be closed within a delay of one month", it said.
The statement did not say how many schools or pupils would be affected but said the government would strive to ensure the students continued their education in other schools.
In August, an official Turkish delegation visited Morocco to convince the authorities of the danger of Gulen's group.
A school director from the Mohammed al-Fatih group at the time rejected any link with Gulen for seven schools teaching 2,500 students including 2,470 Moroccans. He said 90 percent of their teachers were also Moroccan nationals.
Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, has denied any involvement in the July 15 failed coup aimed at toppling Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The preacher heads the Hizmet group which includes schools, associations and companies.
Turkey, which calls it the Fethullah Terror Organisation (FETO), has embarked on a massive crackdown of the group.
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Rising addiction rates and disputes among street-level drug dealers were key factors in driving up homicides in Tijuana last year, making 2016 the most violent in the city’s history, authorities said Tuesday.
The total for the year came to 910 for Tijuana, according to figures for the Baja California Attorney General’s Office. That represents a 36 percent increase over 2015, when authorities registered 670 homicides. The 2016 tally surpasses the city’s previous record in 2008, when authorities reported 844 killings.
"There is a tremendous conflict in the street over the sale of drugs," said Miguel Angel Guerrero, coordinator for special investigations in the Baja California Attorney General’s Office in Tijuana. "Every day, we see more addicts, and as we see more addicts, there will be more drug consumption, more problems, and more deaths as a result."
With a population of more than 1.7 million residents, Tijuana is Baja California’s largest city and has traditionally led the state in homicides. Last year was no exception: By comparison with Tijuana’s 910 killings, Mexicali, the state capital, had 112 homicides, Ensenada had 85, Rosarito Beach had 80 and Tecate had 77, according to the Attorney General’s figures. That's almost as many murders as Chicago in a much smaller city. More at link...
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[Breitbart] Stanley Black & Decker, one of the U.S.A.’s most well known hand and power tool manufacturers, has unveiled plans to move some manufacturing back to the U.S. after the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House.
In remarks to investors during a Thursday conference call, Stanley Black & Decker CEO James Loree said it just makes "business sense" to move manufacturing back to the U.S., especially given the uncertainty of trade relations with China and Mexico, USA Today reported. From an old Rigid calendar. Oil can Lilly threading a piece of 1 inch on a Rigid, American made pipe machine.
"It’s going to be advisable to have more manufacturing in the U.S.," Loree added.
"We believe this is an excellent opportunity to re-Americanize and revitalize this legendary brand," he concluded.
Stanley Black & Decker has been slowly increasing jobs in the U.S. for the past several years. Its current level of some 3,000 workers is already up 800 from 2013. It is not yet known how many more jobs the company will be bringing to the U.S. as a result of its latest announcement.
[BLOOMBERG] Sears Holdings Corp. agreed to sell its Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. for about $900 million, marking Chief Executive Officer Edward Lampert’s third move in the last two weeks to prop up the beleaguered retailer with fresh sources of funding.
Stanley will pay $525 million at closing and $250 million after three years, the companies said in a statement Thursday. The buyer also will make annual payments on new Craftsman sales for 15 years.
With Sears’s department-store business continuing to bleed cash, Lampert has turned to selling and spinning off assets to keep the company operating. The hedge fund manager, who also is the retailer’s chairman and largest investor, agreed earlier this week to lend the company $500 million and said last month that affiliates of his firm would offer it a $200 million letter of credit. Sears also has been reviewing its DieHard batteries and Kenmore appliance brands for potential sales.
The Craftsman sale is "another piece of the puzzle of trying to cobble together enough liquidity to navigate ’17," said Noel Hebert, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. "But the more you sell to fund losses, the less there is to sell."
Hebert also said the price Sears sold the unit for was "disappointing."
Separately, Sears said it’s closing 150 more stores, part of a program to shrink the retailer’s physical presence to stem its continued losses. The company posted another grim sales report Thursday, with comparable-store sales declining 12 percent to 13 percent during the holiday period.
"We will continue to take actions to adjust our capital structure, meet our financial obligations and manage our business to better position Sears Holdings to create long-term value," Lampert said in Thursday’s statement.
Investors cheered the moves, sending Sears up as much as 8 percent to $11.19 in New York. The stock had slumped 55 percent last year as the company continued to post losses. Shares of New Britannia, Connecticut-based Stanley advanced as much as 3.6 percent to $120.69.
Iconic Brand
Craftsman has been part of Sears since 1927, when the retailer acquired the brand for $500. The tools debuted in the iconic Sears catalog two years later. By the 1940s, the brand benefited from a surge in power-tool sales. In 1981, President Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... was given a Craftsmen woodworking set as his farewell gift when he left the White House.
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With every roll of chicken wire I unload at Amazon, I can't help but think of all the Sears catalog sales execs that must be spinning in their graves. Maybe the company could harness that energy for sale to raise xapitol.
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Darwin at work. Adapt or perish. For a Sears, there's an Amazon.
Kenmore is not long for the world either. Replace a 24 year Kenmore refrig at Sears, it was a pain. Fit their schedule, pay extra. Replaced a 18 year dishwasher at Lowes, they fit my schedule, free delivery, free take away, and a mil discount on top of an on going sale.
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The first Kenmore microwave I bought, that was in 1982, lasted until 2013. The second Kenmore microwave I bought, was in 2013, and it didn't last through that year.
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Oh great! Craftsman used to be a great brand, now that B&D is going to own it, it's gonna turn to crap. Might as well buy my tools from Harbor Freight as their quality is the same as Craftsman is going to be once B&D gets their grubby hands on it. HF much cheaper too, I do note that the quality of HF tools has been going up in the past few years.
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I gave up on Craftsman 10 years ago. I now buy Mac Tools or other high quality tools. Buy them once and they last for decades.
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Ugh! Black and Decker is going to buy Craftsman?
Craftsman used to make pretty good tools and their lifetime guarantee has been useful. Do you think B&D will still honor the lifetime guarantee?
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That's a bummer - my garage is full of Craftsman stuff - drill (I've had it for about thirty years), circular saw (15 or 20), table saw, wrenches, socket sets and even my snowblower (some 18 HP Canadian model, bought at the Braintree MA Sears about five years ago), and they all work great. I agree that it looks like the brand's about to turn to shit.
[Daily Signal] Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy had "selfish political and ideological motives" when he made secret overtures to the Soviet Union’s spy agency during the Cold War to thwart then-President Ronald Reagan’s re-election, a Reagan biographer said in an interview with The Daily Signal.
When they came to light years later, Kennedy’s secret contacts with the Russians through their KGB spy agency in the early 1980s didn’t cause nearly the tizzy that Russia’s alleged interference with this year’s election has for President-elect Donald Trump among liberal activists and reporters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Trump has said he hopes to "get along," is a former foreign intelligence officer and lieutenant colonel in the KGB.
In the 1980s, Kennedy was "terribly misguided" and "a fool" for seeing Reagan as a greater threat than either the leader of the Soviet Union or the head of its brutal secret police and intelligence agency, political science professor and writer Paul Kengor told The Daily Signal.
[Free Beacon] Democrats have been in power for so long that they’ve forgotten how to oppose. Their party has been on a roll since 2005 when the botched Social Security reform, the slow bleed of the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina sent the Bush administration into a tailspin. The Democrats won the Congress the following year and the White House two years after that. And while they lost the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, Democrats still had the advantage of retaining the White House, a president seemingly immune from criticism, the courts, the bureaucracy, and large portions of the media. The correlation of forces in Washington has weighed heavily in favor of the Democrats for a decade.
No longer. The election of Donald Trump has brought unified Republican government to Washington and overturned our understanding of how politics works. Or at least it should have done so. The Democrats seem not to understand how to deal with Trump and the massive change he is about to bring to the nation’s capital. During the general election they fell for the idea that Trump can be defeated by conventional means, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in negative television advertising and relying on political consultants beholden to whatever line Politico was selling on a given day. This strategy failed Trump’s Republican primary opponents, but Democrats figured that was simply because the GOP was filled with deplorables. It was a rationalization that would cost them.
[The Hill] A former CIA director who had been advising Donald Trump on national security said he will no longer be involved with the president-elect or the transition.
A spokesman for James Woolsey said in a statement Thursday that "Effective immediately, Ambassador Woolsey is no longer a Senior Advisor to President-Elect Trump or the Transition. He wishes the President-Elect and his Administration great success in their time in office."
In an appearance on CNN Thursday, Woolsey said he hasn’t been advising Trump lately and simply wanted to remove the title.
"I didn’t want to fly under false colors. I’ve been and adviser, and felt that I was making a contribution, and I strongly support Mr. Trump for president -- did since early September -- and I wish him well," he said. Interesting timing, which appears to coincide with the announcement of possible intelligence community shake-ups and former Sen. Dan Coats being named as DNI. Probably just a coincidence.
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CIA Directors naturally invite castle intrigue and obviously Woolsey is no exception. Then again sometimes things are exactly as presented. He certainly has knowledge on all things Rooshin but he and his contacts have a shelf life.
Call anytime now Jim...buh-bye.
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Woolsey is an active fellow who is associated with a half dozen non profits, some for-profit advisory groups, some strategic policy consultants, etc.
Unfortunately he has spread himself so far he sometimes doesn't know what he is talking about. He was a big time proponent of cellulose based ethanol. Several hundred million in grants were awarded for cellulose ethanol and we have little to show for it.
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[The Hill] Donald Trump's team is demanding politically appointed ambassadors leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, The New York Times reports.
The mandate could leave the U.S. without Senate-confirmed representatives for months in key countries like Germany and Britain, the Times notes. The order breaks with precedent. In the past, administrations have granted extensions on a case-by-case basis.
A senior Trump transition official told the Times there was no "ill will" in the order and that it is meant to make sure President Obama's appointees leave the government on schedule.
According to the Times, many ambassadors are considering appealing the decision with Rex Tillerson, Trump's nominee for secretary of state. The State Department reportedly informed all politically appointed ambassadors that they were to submit letters of resignation effective Jan. 20 the day after the election, and instructed those seeking extensions to submit formal requests.
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...some have been working themselves into non-appointee positions by reclassifying the position as such. There's going to be a weeding out. Seems Trump understands one of the fundamental failures of Bush II.
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The mandate could leave the U.S. without Senate-confirmed representatives for months in key countries like Germany and Britain, the Times notes.
Still have the chargé d'affaires, the Chief of Station, Defense Attache, and other staff. Still have the foreign office desk at Foggy Bottom. I see absolutely no downside.
[The Hill] President-elect Donald Trump will name former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to direct the nation’s sprawling intelligence community, multiple media outlets reported Thursday.
The mild-mannered Republican, who did not seek reelection in November, was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
A former ambassador to Germany under George W. Bush, Coats served in the Senate twice -- from 1989 to 1999, and again from 2011 until this year. Bio found here.
The Pentagon has established a "red team" to address considerable shortcomings with the F-35C, the carrier-based naval variant of the most expensive weapons project in history.
The Pentagon's red team found the problem was due to several factors central to the plane's design, and recommended several fixes that will take several months to several years to fully fix. The report states that long term actions to address the problem will not take place until 2019, at which point they'll take 12-36 months to implement.
Redesigns to the plane, as well as to carriers, may be necessary to fully address the problem.
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Don't forget, this was designed as a multi-service aircraft - which means no service got what they really needed.
The last time we tried this we got the F-111. The last time we succeeded was with the F-4, which we didn't design for all services. The Phantom II was designed to be the best fighter possible - and we kept adding to it.
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Look at the bright side, at least it didn't lose a motor.....yet
Redesign the carriers, RIGHT !
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Had a red team come thru once on a project. They came up with some good ideas. Never hurts to have a second pair of eyes on a design.
In a first-of-its kind test, the Navy used F-35B sensors as an aerial node as part of an integrated ship defense technology -- designed to destroy air and surface enemy missile threats from beyond-the-horizon.
A Marine Corps F-35B used its on-board sensors to function for the first time as a broad-area aerial relay node in an integrated fire-control weapons system designed to identify, track and destroy approaching enemy cruise missiles from distances beyond-the-horizon, service officials announced.
A Navy "desert ship" at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. designed to replicate maritime conditions, used ship-based radar to connect the F-35B sensors to detect enemy missiles at long ranges and fire an SM-6 interceptor to destroy the approaching threat.
The emerging fire-control system, called Naval Integrated Fire Control ‐ Counter Air, or NIFC-CA, was deployed last year on a Navy cruiser serving as part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group in the Arabian Gulf, Navy officials told Scout Warrior, last year.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYT] Judith Clark, who drove a getaway car in the infamous 1981 robbery of a Brink’s armored car in Rockland County, N.Y., that left a guard and two police officers dead, went into prison defiant, with seemingly little chance of getting out. The judge who sentenced her saw her as beyond rehabilitation, giving her a minimum of 75 years in prison and all but ensuring she would die there.
SOMERVILLE ‐ A five-day, round-the-clock manhunt for a potentially dangerous federal fugitive who made a brazen escape from a Rhode Island detention center ended Thursday with a foot chase in Somerville, where a veteran state trooper snared James W. Morales as he tried to jump a fence in the Ten Hills neighborhood.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Bobby Rush (D., Ill.) made payments to four family members that combined to more than $100,000 during the 2016 election cycle, campaign finance records show.
[MEDIAITE] CNN host Don Lemon pushed back Wednesday night after a conservative panelist labeled four Chicagoans torturing a mentally handicapped man and posting the video live on Facebook “evil.”
An engine dropped out of a B-52 bomber during a training flight on Wednesday, the Air Force has confirmed.
[BLOOMBERG] Sears Holdings Corp. agreed to sell its Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. for about $900 million, marking Chief Executive Officer Edward Lampert’s third move in the last two weeks to prop up the beleaguered retailer with fresh sources of funding.
Jimmy Carter
[Daily Signal] Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy had "selfish political and ideological motives" when he made secret overtures to the Soviet Union’s spy agency during the Cold War to thwart then-President Ronald Reagan’s re-election, a Reagan biographer said in an interview with The Daily Signal.
