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Book Review: Lie To Me

The following review is a special for BlackFive readers provided by Elise Cooper. You can read all of our book reviews and author interviews by clicking on the Books category link in the right side bar. Lie To Me by J. T. Ellison is her second standalone...

Published Sun, Sep 03 2017 2:32 AM by BlackFive

Book Review: Blackmail

The following review is a special for BlackFive readers provided by Elise Cooper. You can read all of our book reviews and author interviews by clicking on the Books category link in the right side bar. Blackmail by Rick Campbell is an entertaining military...

Published Sun, Aug 27 2017 1:38 PM by BlackFive

Book Review: The Room Of White Fire

The following review is a special for BlackFive readers provided by Elise Cooper. You can read all of our book reviews and author interviews by clicking on the Books category link in the right side bar. The Room of White Fire by T. Jefferson Parker introduces...

Published Sun, Aug 27 2017 1:34 PM by BlackFive

Emergency gun-grabbing

The momentum in the gun rights v. gun control battle is all on the side of the second amendment, but the anniversary of Katrina brought back some bad memories of police confiscating weapons. I was on Alyona's show today discussing this. And I would...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 11:28 AM by BLACKFIVE

2nd Para Finds an Afghan Village in the U.K.

Deep in the English countryside, men and women flee for their lives as a suicide bomber detonates himself in the middle of a village bazaar. Expert snipers take aim at retreating terrorist insurgents, a mother pleads with medics to save her child's...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 7:33 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Video Channels

How the Russians Sell Stuff

Popular Mechanics has a journalist at the Russian Arms Expo. Joe Pappalardo tells us what it's like to see a tank ballet, paratrooper kar-a-te, and combat dogs. There's a ton of stuff over at PM. ...One part defense-technology trade show and one...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 4:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Video Channels, Weblogs, Web/Tech

Book Review: The Guests On South Battery

The Guests On South Battery by Karen White is part paranormal, mystery, historical, with a little romance. Readers will be kept enthralled with the scenes of historic Southern houses and spooky happenings. White has done a lot of research on the subject...

Published Sun, Jan 08 2017 10:51 PM by BlackFive

Death for Hassan

The sentence is in, and it is death. However, given the speed at which military executions take place, and the extreme reluctance/complete inability to do right by their people of the perfumed princes it is life in prison for all intents and purpose....

Published Wed, Aug 28 2013 6:49 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Book Review - "Bone Labyrinth" by James Rollins

The following book review is a special for BlackFive readers provided by Elise Cooper. You can read all of our book reviews and author interviews by clicking on the Books category link in the right side bar. Bone Labyrinth, by James Rollins, is a thriller...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2015 9:16 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Books

You can't end wars; they are won or lost

President Obama is learning a lesson about strategy, but the price is beig paid by the Iraqi people (and the Afghans for that matter). You can declare a war to be over, or ended responsibly, and then pat yourself on the back for it. But if the enemy doesn't...

Published Thu, Jun 12 2014 10:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

Photo - Medical Evacuation

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Katherine Stafford treats a mother and child after a medical evacuation aboard the USS Bataan in the Mediterranean Sea, June 7, 2014. The Bataan and the USS Elrod rendered assistance by providing food, water, medical...

Published Mon, Jun 09 2014 2:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Vets for a Strong America hold Hillary accountable

Getting information about the Benghazi debacle has been almost impossible in the face of a full on campaign of obfuscation and lies from the administration. But there are some options still available and Vets for a Strong America took advantage of the...

Published Mon, Jul 14 2014 12:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Amplifying Obama after passive Foley statement

President Obama said mostly the right things about the horrific killing of James Foley by ISIS. But he couldn't seem to manage even a bit of outrage, or anger or much more than annoyance. You should have a little more passion when discussing the slaughter...

Published Wed, Aug 20 2014 9:03 PM by BLACKFIVE

Muslims Celebrated The Sep 11 Attacks

The politically correct version of the September 11 attacks holds that the Muslim world rejected such violence as un-Islamic and condemned the attacks. This is not true. The Muslim world celebrated the attacks. I took a trip to Egypt a few years ago to...

Published Mon, Sep 10 2012 1:32 PM by BLACKFIVE

A More Disturbing Matter

We've got a bit of a problem, if this is right: we're being out-competed in the intelligence market. Captain Fathi al-Obeidi, whose special operations unit was ordered by Libya's authorities to meet an eight-man force at Benghazi airport,...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 1:58 PM by BLACKFIVE