From The Tank:
From the Captain Jack Holt, the New Media Operations Chief for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a Fact Sheet has been issued looking to offer clarification on the ongoing and often heated discussions regarding the recent communications regulations pertaining to MilBloggers.
Some key pieces of the fact sheet:

America’s Army respects every Soldier’s […]

My April 26 post regarding the rumor that there won’t be any House sessions held on Saturdays until the last Saturday in May has been confirmed in a report today by Postcards from the Lege:
A bigger issue may be why the House has chosen, so far, not to work weekends until the final weekend in […]

I’ve heard a rumor — or maybe just a joke — that if the Texas-Mexico border wall is completed (using inmate labor, of course), Rep. Guillen’s district office will be on the “Mexican side.” Something about that being the only way they can get around landforms or infrastructure or his reelection.

Times are not good for milbloggers.
The U.S. Army has issued new Operations Security (OPSEC) regulations restricting (and possibly killing) soldiers’ blogs — taking away a valuable source of frontline information from American citizens.

May is Military Appreciation Month, and The Air Force Times is celebrating the month’s beginning with a display of combat photographers’ favorite photos.

More photos not highlighted in the Military Appreciation Month display.

I’m disappointed to learn — through an e-mail exchange with CapMetro, Austin’s mass transit authority — that the hybrid-electric buses they’ve been testing haven’t resulted in the higher gas mileage they expected. From the sound of the exchange (in e-mail, so there was no sound, but the sound I attributed to it anyway), it doesn’t […]

One bill I don’t mind seeing on Local & Consent.
–A friend

I can’t agree more.

HB 693 by Paxton — Removing the phrase “Home of George W Bush” from signs that say “Welcome to Texas” on highways as you enter the state.

The bill would require that Bush’s name be taken off the signs at the end of […]

Postcards has a great memo blasting Texas Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick’s blatantly partisan leadership of the House — through his control of which bills get to the floor. Authored by House Democratic Leader Jim Dunnam, the memo includes charts showing that 84 percent of Republicans have had two or more of their bills placed […]

Michael Yon has a great two-parter on the building of a new Combat Outpost (aka Joint Security Station aka Combat Observation Post) in Baghdad as part of Gen. Petraeus’ counterinsurgency strategy. The posts are staffed (and resided in) by American and Iraqi soldiers and police within Baghdad neighborhoods.
He has some great photos as well.
Some people […]

A week or so ago I requested any records about me that are currently in the governor’s homeland security database.
Apparently, my parking tickets haven’t landed me on any no-flight lists — or escape-to-Ardmore hazards.
Of course, by requesting the information, I’ve probably automatically created a file for myself.
The text of the response to my request:

We received […]