Chapter 7 – Congress Acts: 10 U.S.C. §1107
More can and must be done, however, to rebuild trust, to avoid repeating past mistakes, and to...
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Category: Military
Chapter 6 – The Gulf War and Its Experimental Drugs aka “Your Body is the New Battlefield”
In the late 1980s, the Department of Defense had a problem. It was anticipating the need for better means to combat chemical and biological agents and, to the point, the U.S. was way behind the Soviet Union in its chemical and biological warfare preparedness.
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Chapter 5 – The FDA, DHHS, & Vaccines: Anthrax Slides By
Before 1962, vaccines, drugs, and other such products did not undergo nearly the kind of scrutiny that they do today in order to become licensed. It wasn’t until the thalidomide disaster of the 1960’s that federal regulation of drugs came to be what it is today.
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Chapter 4 – Judicial Remedies in Our Republic?
The Declaration of Independence’s most trenchant historical observation is coupled with its boldest claim: “that governments are instituted among men, [and] deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
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Chapter 3 – The General Did What?
Major John Hitesman graduated from the Norwich Military Academy a year before I graduated from Boston University. Like me, Hitesman had a “life” before becoming a lawyer.
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Chapter 2 – The Nuremberg Code
The first principle enunciated in the Nuremberg Code is that “the informed consent of the subject is absolutely essential.”
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Chapter 1 – A Brief History, or “I’m from the government and I’m here to experiment on you.”
Join Ozymandias on the first chapter of the journey.
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The Untold Story of the DoD’s Anthrax Vaccine Program, Serialized: Prologue
Ozymandias shares a pivotal experience from his life in this non-fiction novel. Check back each week for a new chapter.
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Profiles in Toxic Masculinity III: Joshua Chamberlain
As a young man he pursued various occupations including lumberjack (hardly a novelty in Maine) and bricklayer, meanwhile studying Greek and Latin, because lumberjacking and bricklaying are both occupations that give you plenty of spare time for studying Greek and Latin.
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A History of Bolt Guns, Part Four
The War to End All Wars was the crucible in which the modern bolt-action rifle was formed, hardened and tempered.
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A History of Bolt Guns, Part Three
We’ve got a lot of ground to cover and not much bandwidth, and this will be an image-heavy post to support that. So hang on.
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The Lost Company
Yusef is back – and smaller than ever!
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A History of Bolt Guns, Part Two
Now, I’m not saying the folks at Vetterli looked across the Atlantic and noticed the feeding setup of the highly successful 1866 Winchester repeater, but if they had, it would certainly explain their adoption of a very similar mechanism for their repeating rifle…
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Secret Squirrel
*Psssst* Beer. But don’t tell anyone about it.
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A History of Bolt Guns, Part One
Unlike our previous two historical studies, this one begins in Europe. The story of bolt-action guns begins in 1824, with a German inventor named Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse…
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A History of Lever Guns, Part Four
The latest and greatest info on slightly antiquated firearms!
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A History of Lever Guns, Part Two
Animal continues his history of the lever gun.
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Profiles in Toxic Masculinity I: W.D.M. “Karamojo” Bell
A profile of Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell.
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IFLA: The Horoscope for the Week of Feb 17
This week’s sky is probably the most complicated one we’ve seen yet (most of the sky...
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South China Sea: Fair Seas or Foul Weather? Part 2
The much-anticipated Part 2 of dbleagle’s informative post.
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