national defense

Protect America Act

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

It has now been almost a week since critical revisions to FISA, known as the Protect America Act, expired leading to the degradation of our intelligence gathering capabilities.
The House Republican Conference released an excellent web video yesterday (see below) summarizing our current intelligence situation in the aftermath of House Democrats allowing the Protect America Act […]

Star Wars

Friday, September 28th, 2007

A ground based missile intercepted a hostile missile today in a successful test run of the missile defense system.
As reported by the Associated Press:
An intercontinental ballistic missile interceptor blasted out of an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base shortly after 1:15 p.m., and tracked a target missile that had lifted off from the Kodiak […]