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The Sleeping Giant Awakes: Here Comes The Housing Recovery

By Zoomie Brokers: The Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in regards to the attack on Pearl Harbor, was portrayed in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! as saying, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Housing has been the sleeping giant in the U.S. Show More Summary

Liveblogging World War II: May 23, 1943

Flying Fish - Dave Barry: >In December 1941, shortly after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dental surgeon named Lytle S. Adams thought of a way that the United States could fight back against Japan. It will come as no surprise to anyone...Show More Summary

Japan Assault Fleet Arrives at Pearl Harbor…Just For Practice

TOKYO – Warships from Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Force have making stops at the American naval base at Pearl Harbor for more than two decades. But it’s going to seem strange, indeed, when Japanese ground troops clamor aboard this weekend. Show More Summary

US's 'Cyberwar' Strategy: Making The Public Less Secure In The Name Of 'Security'

last weekIndustries / Law : Techdirt

The US government seems to be responding to "cyber Pearl Harbor" by heading out on bombing runs of its own. All the concern for the safety of the American public displayed in Congress during the CISPA push seems to have been nothing more than the empty words we expect from our representatives. Show More Summary

20 Best Tattoos of the Week – May 07th to May 13th, 2013

Check out the latest designs of May tattoos.... 1. A few weeks ago I got the same tattoo as my grandad from Daryl Rodreigez at hold it down in richmond va. I drove up to see him in the hospital.. His I from Pearl Harbor '42. 2. Edward Scissor Hands by Jasen Workman out of St. Show More Summary

Cyber Insecurity: The 21st Century’s Version of Air Pollution

– Then-defense secretary Leon Panetta referred to the threat of cyber attacks as a “cyber Pearl Harbor.” – A senior Cyber Command official has declared that we are in the middle of a “cyber arms race.” – Other experts have used public health as a metaphor for the cyber security challenge facing our nation. Show More Summary

Maritime Monday for May 6th, 2013: “Climb Mount Niitaka”

Tora! Tora! Tora! Was a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatized the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Directed by Richard Fleischer and featuring an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, [...]

A pearl on the harbor, or just the shell?

How can one building - James Packer’s proposed $1 billion hotel and casino…

Interview: Michael Shannon on Finding Empathy for an Enigmatic Killer

Michael Shannon has explored a great deal of history in the past few years: he got rowdy as Kim Fowley in The Runaways; stern as hell for Boardwalk Empire; and, who could forgot, supplied comic relief for Michael Bay in Pearl Harbor....Show More Summary

Knicks mourn death of first PR boss Jimmy Wergeles

Jimmy Wergeles, the Knicks’ first and longtime public relations boss, MSG Network’s first p.r. director and a Marine veteran of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died, Friday, at 90. Wergeles began with the Knicks on day one, in 1946, and retired from the Garden in 1985. He became particularly close with Willis Reed, who yesterday [...]

CISPA Is Dead. Here’s Why (and How) to Resurrect It

3 weeks agoNews : Threat Level

For all the heated rhetoric surrounding the CISPA legislation -- predictions of an impending Digital Pearl Harbor matched by dire warnings of Big Brother surveillance -- the controversy was almost entirely unnecessary. Americans have grown so accustomed to hearing about...

Jennifer Garner In Talks To Star In Terrible, Horrible Movie!

3 weeks agoLifestyle / Fashion : CocoPerez

Jennifer Garner has been in a few movies that didn't get the best critical response- Pearl Harbor, Elektra, Valentine's Day- but her next movie may be described as terrible, horrible, and maybe even very bad! And that'll just be on the poster! Jen is in talks to star in a big screen adaptation of Alexander And The [...]

Five Things You Didn't Know About The Real-Life 'Pain & Gain'

By Tara Fowler This weekend, Michael Bay will try to erase the sting of "Armageddon" with the true-crime feature "Pain & Gain." Personally, I've never met a Bay film I haven't liked (well, maybe Pearl Harbor), so I couldn't be more psyched for this movie, which centers on three Florida bodybuilders—Daniel Lugo, Adrian Doorbal, and [...]

War Thunder to take flight on iOS and Android

Remember when you were watching that Pearl Harbor movie a while back and it sucked and you fell asleep and then you woke up towards the end it was suddenly awesome because of the WWII dogfighting scenes? Well, you can skip all the junk and get right to the good stuff with Gaijin Entertainment's War Thunder WWII MMO combat game will soon take flight over iOS and Android skies.

Michael Bay: 'I Apologize For Armageddon'

Director Michael Bay has been nominated for four Razzie Awards for his work behind-the-camera on films like "Pearl Harbor," Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." But there's one film that even Bay is sorry you had to pay to see. Show More Summary

Legacy Still Unsettled for Reluctant Architect of Attack on Pearl Harbor

NAGAOKA, Japan – Seven decades after the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in an aerial ambush in the South Pacific, Japan is still struggling with how to remember the charismatic naval commander who opposed war with the United States, but nonetheless planned the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor. Show More Summary

Watch President Obama's Speech After The Boston Marathon Explosions

During times of tragedy, we look to our leaders to offer wisdom and to present a formal message to the rest of the world. That?s what we did after Pearl Harbor with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and that?s what we?ve done countless time with everyone from George W Bush after 9/11 to Barack Obama after Osama Bin Laden?s death.

PAT BUCHANAN: The US Is Waging A War Against Gun Owners

Attacks from abroad—Pearl Harbor, 9/11—have united us. Yet domestic atrocities lately seem only to deepen our divisions. The bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City was seized upon to savage government critics like Rush Limbaugh. Show More Summary

Obama Administration Cuts Back Pearl Harbor Tours

The Obama Administration's dire warnings about the impact of the automatic sequester cuts have failed to live up to expectations. That hasn't prevented them, however, from making dramatic and very public cuts to increase their effect. Show More Summary

Senator Angus King: "The next Pearl Harbor will be online"

King, an independent elected in 2012, says the United States is at serious risk.

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