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United States maritime surveillance ship USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS 23)1 was harassed by a handful of smaller Chinese ships while openly conducting operations in the South China Sea, approximately 75 nautical miles south of Hainan Island, China (aerial map). more »

Originally Published March 22, 2008; Updated and Republished June 11, 2009:Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian is overwhelmingly defeated by Kuomintang (KMT) candidate and incoming Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou.Ying has promised to work closer with… more »

A graduate student has discovered1 a Thomas Jefferson letter replying to Joseph Bringhurst concerning the death of John Dickinson:"I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th. It gave me the first information of the death of our distin… more »

Originally Published January 09, 2009; Updated and Republished February 11, 2009; Updated and Republished April 12, 2009; Updated and Republished April 14, 2009:In a bit of competitive cooperation America has announced Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-15… more »

Originally Published December 18, 2008; Updated and Republished December 26, 2008:China's PLAN (Peoples Liberation Army Navy) will join United States, Canada, Australia, India, et al. in rotational pirate duty off the coastal waters of Somalia.… more »

The remains of an unknown soldier who died on the Antietam battlefield have been returned to New York, believed to be the soldier's home1Web: UPI, Union soldier's body returns to New York -----notes-----1. Based on uniform evidence found near t… more »

Originally Published March 04, 2008; Updated and Republished July 21, 2009: China's Communist Party joins the Bush administration in the absurd and abusive assertion of "state secrets"—China claims the east blowing Gobi Desert sand and pollutant… more »

Originally published September 15, 2007, Republished March 11, 2008; Updated and Republished on June 18, 2008; Updated and Republished on July 15, 2009: How will the Iraq War debacle stop if those funding and fueling the Iraq War are also profiting fr… more »

House Minority Leader Boehner sounds like a Democrat leveling ad hominem attacks against Republicans!“The Administration and congressional Democrats are literally bullying health care groups into cutting backroom deals to fund a government takeover of… more »

Memorial Day 2009Let us remember too that our young guardians are currently dying1 in two discretionary conflicts3—let our policymakers immediately cease these discretionary conflicts2 and bring our guardians home.YouTube: History of Mem… more »