In today’s episode of Uncle Jay Explains the News, Uncle Jay apologizes for not being able to record a show last week due to his need to attend Michael Jackson’s memorial service at The Staples Center in Los Angeles. In addition, he tackles such subjects as continued unrest in Iran, the surprise resignation of Alaska [...]
Uncle Jay Explains the News: July 13, 2009
July 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: · alaska governor, Barack Obama, France, general motors, italy, michael jackson, Obama, president barack obama, Putin, Russia, sarah palin, Sarkozy, staples center, uncle jay, Uncle Jay Explains, uncle jay explains the news
FIRE IN ‘THE CHUNNEL!”
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments
“FIRE IN ‘THE CHUNNEL!’” That’s what’s being reported in the British and French press about the undersea Channel Tunnel that connects England and France: All freight and passenger services were suspended after a “serious incident” on French side of the tunnel. — The (UK) Telegraph Some 32 truck drivers have been evacuated from a freight [...]
Tags: · AFP, Agence France Press, channel tunnel, chunnel, england, English Channel, eurotunnel, fire in the channel tunnel, fire in the chunnel, France, machines and engineering, Sky News, Telegraph, the chunnel, the discovery channel, united kingdom
Photos Capture War, Floods, Famine and Fire
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Captions for the images below describe scenes from around the world — from France to Florida and Georgia (the country, not the state) to Hong Kong — related to this week’s evidence of war, floods, famine and fire.
Tags: · 2008, 2008 olympic games, Afghanistan, beijing, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, bread, China, cuba, equestrian, famine, fire, flood, florida, florida keys, France, georgia, gori, hait, Haiti, hong kong, Key West, missiles, Nicolas Sarkozy, olympic equestrian venue, olympic flame, Olympic Games, Paris, Russia, Tropical Storm, tropical storm fay, War
Semtex Theft in France Goes Unreported in U.S.
July 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments
Today, I recognized an instance of life imitating art in my corner of the world and thought it worth sharing with a world engaged in a Global War on Terror. I was one-third of the way through ACT OF TREASON, the latest terror-action novel by Vince Flynn, when I came across a BBC News article [...]
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Normandy Invasion Remembered
June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sixty-four years ago, 156,000 troops — including many black soldiers like the ones shown above — landed on the Normandy coast of France in the largest invasion force in history. They moved upon the “Order of the Day” statement issued by Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower to the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the [...]
Tags: · Allied Expeditionary Force, Barack Obama, d-day, Democrat Party, Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower, France, My Father's War Stories, My Father's War Stories from World War II, normandy, War Stories from World War II, World War II, world war two
Boeing Continues Protest of Tanker Contract
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The KC-767 Advanced Tanker developed by Boeing was sized to meet the aerial refueling requirements of the U.S. Air Force’s mission and exceeded performance requirements to replace the aging, yet storied fleet of KC-135 medium tankers (see photo above), according to a Boeing news release today. Despite the fact that the stated parameters for evaluating [...]
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Five Ways Today’s Liberals Would Have Screwed Up the Louisiana Purchase
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today, after visiting the American Minute and reading about the 205th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, I began to ponder how things might have turned out if today’s liberals had been in charge of Congress at the time. I came up with Five Ways Today’s Congressional Liberals Would Have Screwed Up the Louisiana Purchase: 1. [...]
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