U.S. Navy SEALs

Richie Whitt is Writing an Epic Tell-All Blog on How Greggo Got Them Fired From The Fan

Richie Whitt and Greg "Greggo" Williams have now had two months to reflect on CBS's unceremonious cancellation of The Rage, their drive-time sports talk show on 105.3 The Fan, and they've come to starkly different conclusions. Greggo chalked it all up to ratings, which he says had dropped. Whitt, ... More >>

Chris Kyle's Widow Tells Glenn Beck She Doesn't Believe Her Husband's Alleged Killer Suffered From PTSD

Right now, Eddie Ray Routh is sitting in jail in Erath County, where he has been since February, when he was accused of shooting and killing former sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a Glen Rose gun range. A recent New Yorker profile of Kyle outlined Routh's long history of mental ... More >>

Texas' Memory Champ Knows the Name of Each U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

Ron White spent nights during his eight-month tour in Afghanistan in 2007 holed up in his bunk with his laptop, poring over lists of words and numbers until they were committed to memory. It struck his Navy comrades as unusual, but memory is what White does. He founded a memory training business aft ... More >>

The Residents at the Kessler Theater, 2/2/13: Review

There was absolutely nothing ordinary about the two shows The Residents put on at the Kessler this past Friday and Saturday night. Out of all the rock and roll weirdoes that have come and gone, The Residents may indeed be the oddest ducks of them all. Celebrating 40 years together, the band put on a ... More >>

Zero Dark Thirty Reports and You Decide

Knowing the ending doesn't kill the thrills in the hunt for Bin Laden.

Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon

Ready to Drink, Ready to Run... In Fuzzy Helmets

New Bar Trend Honoring Fallen Soldiers Hits Big Tony's Grill In McKinney

Here's a serious one for you, Aters. Maybe you've heard this story that went viral recently: On St. Paddy's Day, a man named Jeff Beaurline walked into Pub 25 in Newtown, Connecticut, and asked the manager if he could leave a cold Guinness on the bar all day for Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, who was ... More >>

Act of Valor Wants You.

Want to Know How David Blaine Does That Stuff? (Don't Hold Your Breath)

If there really were such a thing as magical power, wouldn't it be a waste to use it on card tricks? Or trying to break the record for consecutive minutes not breathing without dying? But that is what magician, illusionist and "endurance artist" David Blaine does and he did some of it last night at ... More >>

Veterans, Families Skip the BBQ and Beer to Carry the Load Around White Rock Lake

Photos by Leslie Minora​Yesterday, at 4 p.m. sharp, men wearing weight belts and camouflage pants lined up next to young families pushing baby strollers as nearly 400 people bearing backpacks, weights, logs and photos of loved ones set out along the 9.3 mile loop around the White Rock Lake. It was ... More >>

Mavs-Lakers: Looking Back at a Great Series ... and a Horrible Prediction

​Never been happier to be wrong. And I don't care that I wasn't alone -- I admit I was wrong. I'm stunned by the Mavs sweeping the Lakers, punctuated by Sunday's 122-86 epic shellacking. Matter of fact, I'm more surprised by this outcome than the Navy SEALs sweeping Osama. I gave currency to&n ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Death: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. When I first heard President Obama was making an emergency announcement at 9:30 on a Sunday night, my first thought was ... asteroid. Then aliens. Then NFL lockout. Then Osama Bin Laden. And somewhere along the process I figured it was just a ploy to interrupt Donald Trump's Celebri ... More >>

Ten New Pro-America Toby Keith Songs Now That Osama bin Laden's Been Killed

Once news began circulating that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a gunfight at his safe-house outside Islamabad, it wasn't long before America's cultural taste-makers got to work. News anchors got their makeup on. Pundits nuanced. Poets cried. But, like they did almost 10 years ago, in the deep ... More >>

A Visit With Jon Voight About Lone Star

Photos by Hal SamplesAdrianne Palicki, left, and Jon Voight on the set of Lone Star​As you're no doubt aware by now, Lone Star premieres tonight on FOX at 8 p.m. It's shot here but set in Houston and Midland, between which James Wolk's Bob/Robert bounces while leading the con man's double life. An ... More >>

Meet Ron White, the Texas-Born Memory Champ You’ll Never Forget

Revenge of the Nerd

Friedlander wows the Improv

G.I. Jerk

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

Soler Power

Plus: Summer Reading List; Iraq and Roll

Toy Soldiers

Computer game designers in Bedford re-create the greatest generation online

SEAL Appeal

Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis lend nobility to brutes

Naval gazing

G.I. Jane is liberated, all right--from good acting and a good story

Spies like us

Idiotic agents sabotage the flawed, energetic Mission: Impossible