Armed Forces

Outdoor Competition Grills Up Support For Disabled Veterans

Here's pulling for great weather next Friday. Students from the culinary program at the Art Institute of Dallas are planning an outdoor event to raise money for Patriot PAWS. The nonprofit organization provides service dogs free of charge to disabled veterans. The event will pit two teams from the c ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Blasts the Morning News for "Slanted and Biased Coverage"

It's been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and thei ... More >>

The Right Predicts that Lifting Gay Ban Will Turn Boy Scouts into Horny Gay Molestees

The board of Irving-based Boy Scouts of America won't discuss a possible end to its longstanding ban on gays until next week, but the news that it's up for discussion has been condemned as another step in the nation's march toward moral ruin. The pronouncements, many of which have been chronicled b ... More >>

Radio Host Mark Davis Thinks Allowing Women in Combat is an "Outrage Against Humanity"

Yesterday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the U.S. military will drop its ban on women serving in combat. For many, this was a long overdue, a commonsense step and an acknowledgment that women are fighting in combat in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and have been for more than a de ... More >>

The Eagle Gun Range in Lewisville is Reconsidering its "Santa and His AR-15" Photo Shoot

In what no doubt seemed like a wonderful idea at the time, Lewisville's Eagle Gun Range announced last Wednesday that Santa would be paying a visit, and he'd be "bringing his favorite toys to share in the Christmas photos -- his AR-15 and other firearms of choice." "Come get your picture taken with ... More >>

Three Men Robbed a Dallas Liquor Store with an AK-47, Then the Clerk Shot Back (Video)

If someone rolled into Unfair Park HQ and pointed an assault rifle at me while they stole my $800 and seven packs of Newports, I'd probably piss my pants and then go become a monk or a farmer, or maybe a farmer-monk. The owner of McGriff's Beer & Wine are not so fainthearted.

Texas Has More Uninsured Veterans Than Any Other State. So That's Lovely.

The difficulties faced by military veterans returning home, from elevated divorce and suicide rates to a harsh job market, have been well documented. Turns out, many of them also don't have health coverage. According to a study released last week by the Urban Institute, 10 percent of veterans lac ... More >>

Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate — where's the military when the chips are down?

V.A. Doc Discusses Traumatic Brain Injury, Diagnosis and Staff Sergeant Robert Bales

Traumatic brain injury may be the most elusive of all war injuries. It presents itself through a number of symptoms -- mood changes, insomnia, headaches, memory loss, irritability -- and in varying degrees. The conversation surrounding such injuries recently became louder after Staff Sergeant Robert ... More >>

Act of Valor Wants You.

The Depressed Lesbian Vet and the Allegedly Homophobic VA Nurse: A Match Made in Hell

Via Change.orgEsther Garatie​A Dallas VA Medical Center nurse is on leave and her bosses are in full-blown groveling mode after a gay combat vet, in search of help for her deepening depression, said she was urged to come out of the darkness and to stop living in terrible lesbian sin. "I was ... More >>

Pigs & Swigs

Last Chance to Get in Line for Rangers Playoff Tickets, Fingers Crossed, and Other Game Notes

It's Colby v. McCarthy tonight. Hang on.​Nice to see our sports columnist thinks the race for the AL West is "over." Still, though, coulda sworn the Rangers have 18 games left on the schedule, including three against the Angels at season's end; the magic number remains a far-from-over 17. Guess th ... More >>

You Never Know Where Someone's Allegedly Assembling Guns to Smuggle Into Mexico

​Looking through a stack of federal cases this morning I espied something odd, a file titled USA v. ... well, let's just say an address all of four blocks from my Northwest Dallas house, and a house I drive by at least once a day. A foreclosure, perhaps? A tax issue? Something perfectly benign? No ... More >>

In Dallas Veterans Court, Desert Storm Soldier Gets His Promised Second Chance Today

Photo by Mark GrahamJudge Mike Snipes​Back in October, Sam wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a lengthy piece about Dallas County's relatively new veterans court, which gives second chances to soldiers who come home from war -- some damaged in some way, many broke, most alone -- and turn t ... More >>

Come Wednesday, Don't Worry About Those Fighters Overhead, Arlington. It's Only a Drill.

​Few weeks back we got a long, hard look at the Federal Aviation Administration's no-fly-zone for Super Bowl Sunday. Ah, yes, but what to do when someone decides to launch their seaplane or go hang-gliding anyhows? Well, of course -- North American Aerospace Defense Command to the rescue.But NORAD ... More >>

Local Prophet Explains Those Dead Birds

​A good Friend of Unfair Park sends along a video presently making the rounds in which Red Oak's own Cindy Jacobs, self-proclaimed "respected prophet," says there's a very good explanation for why those 5,000 birds died in Arkansas on New Year's Eve. And, no, it had nothing to do with a loud noise ... More >>

Cracking The Mold

Resource Center Dallas Happy, For the Most Part, With "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Report

U.S. Navy Petty Officer Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeleyRobert Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at today's press conference​The Department of Defense today released its 247-page Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Manned Missiles -- "Cut The Lights"

Jerrell Jones Manned Missiles​Denton four-piece Manned Missiles, as you can see in the above photograph, has long been bubbling up in the Denton house party scene, and, finally, the band's got some new recorded music to show for it. Recently, the band released a new song called "Cut The Lights," t ... More >>

Running on "bubble gum and duct tape," a new court aims to keep damaged vets out of jail.

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium to Host the Armed Forces Bowl? That's What ESPN Says.

​TCU announced today it's spending $105 million to redo Amon G. Carter Stadium -- everything from new and more concession stands to a raised seating bowl on the west and north ends to suites and club seating to an expanded capacity of close to 50,000. Promises the announcement, Amon Carter will be ... More >>

Two Months Into Dallas County's Veterans Court, Most Are Homeless Vietnam Vets

Judge Mike SnipesA little more than two months since Dallas County held its first veterans' court docket, the diversion program has grown to include nine former service members -- six Vietnam vets and three veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq -- who'll complete two years of treatment and mentoring to k ... More >>

Soldiers of Misfortune: Months Before An Army Psychiatrist Went on a Rampage at Fort Hood, A Texas Army Sergeant Allegedly Murdered Five Troops By Non-hostile Fire in Iraq.

Kids, Meet Dick

Lunching with History

Kicking Off the Fourth

War Chest for Combat Survivor Program Nearly Empty.

A program for fallen warriors' families feels the economic pinch

Reason to Believe

Quick, someone call Mulder. We have a sighting.

A Duncanville Soldier Died in Germany; Cause of Death Being Investigated

No Place Like Home

Soldiering On, One Grant at a Time

Picture Pages

Attention, Ladies

The Women's Museum honors Women in War

This Is Madness

PSP players, tonight you game in hell

Patriot Acts

Far from his Kurdish home, Adnan Kirkuki seeks out soldiers to defend his new one in the United States

SMU Top Cop Going to Afghanistan. Not For Spring Break, Either.

Why They Fight

Yo Soy el Army

Uncle Sam wants you--especially if you're Latino

Another Local Soldier Killed in Iraq -- on New Year's Day

And He Sounds Like Such a Nice Boy on the Radio...

The Man and the Myth

Food Fantastico

No Shame

Letters

G.I. Jerk

Phil Haberman claims he fought with special forces in Iraq, but he's about as real as Rambo

Letter Home

A grunt’s-eye view from near the Sunni Triangle

Best Mark Cuban Decision

Establishing the Fallen Patriot Fund

Contact

A half century later, witnesses insist little green—or maybe brown—men crashed in New Mexico