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When push comes to shove, virtually all sovereign nations are ultimately built on treason against the previous sovereign.

As we all (probably) know, the strict definition of treason came about because the American colonists were responding to the European history of "treason" being defined as "disagreeing with the king or a sufficiently powerful noble ass".

In theory, sure. In practice, I suspect that if so few Irish Catholics reached high rank out of a disproportionately high number in the British military, much smaller groups are that much less likely.

The earliest I can find was Martin Dillon, who was appointed to the rank of Major-General in 1878, Lieutenant-General in 1887 and full General in 1892. There were substantial numbers of Irish Catholics in the enlisted ranks, but disproportionately few were commissioned officers, and hardly any...

I would never, ever bet on Rasputin dying first.

That's already a felony with very harsh circumstances. The difference is that solicitation does not require any actual contact or intent, and if this bill is passed in either the original form *or* the less harsh committee form, it would become a strict-liability offense.

Under existing state laws, soliciting or agreeing to engage in an act of prostitution is defined as a form of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor. It's still a misdemeanor if the person solicited was a minor *and* the person doing the solicited "knew or reasonably should have known" that...

Yes and no. While it's very true that the Air Force blatantly favored Lockheed and put its finger on the scales to guarantee that the F-22 won the ATF competition, it's also still true that there was a lot more technical uncertainty with the Northrop plane. It could have been better, but it...

The F-35 is not an export knockoff of the F-22. The F-35 is a multi-role strike fighter, a completely different role from the pure air superiority F-22. And development of the F-35 started all the way back in the 1980s, so it is likewise completely false to say that it was "conceived and...

Well, let's make it really detailed then. The F-15 entered service in 1976. US aircraft losses in the first five years of service were twenty-three aircraft lost, fourteen fatalities. The F-16 entered service in 1978. US aircraft losses in the first five years of service were thirty-five...

The F-14, F-15, and F-16 all had absolutely horrific accident rates in their early years, primarily due to the major design fault of having extremely unreliable engines. And the only reason the F-15's accident rate wasn't even higher was that it had two engines.

F-15: 123 USAF aircraft lost with 52 fatalities, plus about another fifty export aircraft lost. F-35: Eight aircraft lost with 1 fatality.

If you’re going to argue “good for society”, then we should go all the way back to the truly traditional scheme of marriage being arranged by parents / clan heads without input from the children. After all, young adults are practically as poor in judgement as actual children, and it’s more...

In reality, feminists have repeatedly sued for equal inclusion in the military and draft. Got shut down by the courts ruling that civil rights do not apply to the military because it’s a direct exercise of sovereign authority so the government’s decisions regarding military service are...

The vaunted Kinzhal is nothing more than an air-launched variation of the Iskander -- so it's basically a broad equivalent of the cancelled Skybolt.

Correction: was cancelled because it competed with SLBMs, which were McNamara's pet project. While McNamara *was* admittedly correct about the long term potential of SLBMs as a concept, his habit of aggressively shutting down competition for his favorites was *not* a good thing since he...

"All this way, to hide a submarine in a river." This is USS Blueback, SS-581. The last diesel-electric boat ever to serve in the U.S. Navy, and the sole surviving example of the first ever class of modern albacore-hulled fast attack submarine.

Feinstein was a moderate Democrat who was quite unpopular (but undeniably effective) as Mayor of San Francisco specifically because most of the city was substantially more liberal than she.

The ruling when General Dynamics appealed was pretty much that the Army was not required to level the playing field from the advantages BAE possessed as owner of the M113 and Bradley designs. The appeal also pointed out that technically the Army wasn't directly allowing Bradleys to be...

They're still a "American by technicality" department of a notoriously corrupt and incompetent British company. It's completely unacceptable -- they should never have been allowed to buy out United Defense in the first place.