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Via my ma:
Some Ga. State students decided to conduct an experiment on I-285 recently by driving 4 abreast at 55 mph (the actual speed limit)….they had cameras in cars and on one overpass….see what happened…
A Meditation on the Speed Limit >>
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No, I wasn’t at this awesome airshow at Edwards AFB — but I certainly wish I had been. The highlight was, not surprisingly, the F22A Raptor demo, during which these pictures were taken. Includes some great caption/background/explanatory text.
F-22A Pictures >>

The Venerable William F. Buckley expounds upon that nagging suspicion that’s been dancing around the periphery of my conscious thoughts this past week: It Didn’t Work. “It”, of course, is our intervention — experiment, even, depending on which columnists you read — in Iraq. Most notably, WFB notes that our course in Iraq was [...]

…will use a weapon you’ve probably never even heard of: an electromagnetic pulse.
Here’s a sample scenario.
A frieghter, sailing under the flag of an African country (Sudan, maybe) is making its regular run to New York. Little attention is paid to it, although it does receive cursory notice from the intelligence agencies since its owner’s [...]

Any country that seeks “peaceful” nuclear power and is completely self-sufficient in energy production is de facto suspect. Iran has enough natural gas to meet its clean electrical generation needs for centuries. The only possible rationale for its multi-billion-dollar program of building nuclear reactors, and spending billions more to hide and decentralize them, is to [...]