News circles are abuzz with the recent indictment of American Colleen LaRose for her role in a mission to recruit fighters and an attempt to attack a Swedish artist. A blog entry on The Christian Science Monitor shares that LaRose is not the only American to take up an extremist stand and support violent Jihad. [...]
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Unlike the Navy’s WAVES, who were allowed to hold the same ranks and ratings as their male counterparts, the women of WASP were considered as civilians. The Miami Herald article recounts how the WASPs were not treated as equals and were at the receiving end of pranks.
They had to pay for their own way, both [...]
March is International Women’s History Month, so it is but fitting that the contributions that women have made to our nation’s history are recognized. According to a feature on the Miami Herald, female aviators from World War II were honored in a ceremony held at the Capitol Visitor Center Emancipation Hall.
This is certainly a significant [...]
Call it prejudice if you will, but most people do have a stereotypical image of what a terrorist looks like, and it will most probably not be a petite, blond and blue-eyed American woman. We have been inundated for quite some time with images of bearded men in white robes and turbans that it can [...]
The appeal of a father from Maryland who lost his son in the Iraqi war will be reviewed by the Supreme Court, in a case that will, in essence, review whether the protests are protected by the First Amendment, as featured in an article on The Washington Post.
The lawsuit was filed by Albert Snyder, whose [...]
Those who would like to launch an attack against the United States have become increasingly creative in the way they are able to bring such an attack about. While the most obvious will undoubtedly involve an explosive of some sort, there is a method that is increasingly becoming a concern: breaches in cyber security.
According to [...]




