Bob McCarty Writes

Dick Cheney unleashed a barrage of common sense this morning in a speech to counter President Barack Obama’s defensive, namby-pamby approach for dealing with terrorism and terrorists. Two videos — Part One (above) and Part Two (immediately below) capture the former vice president waging a staunch defense of actions taken by President George W. Bush’s [...]

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Published under the GQ headline, “AND HE WILL BE JUDGED,” Robert Draper’s lengthy feature article about Donald Rumsfeld is chock full of criticism about the former secretary of defense and his boss in the Oval Office.  What I found more worthwhile about the article, however, were details about Scripture verses that began appearing on Pentagon [...]

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Prediction: Americans will, within the next 10 years, begin designing and manufacturing their very own vehicles using in-home three-dimensional printing systems, services and consumables. Why do I believe such an outlandish prediction? For starters, it’s because others believe it, too! Almost a month ago, someone predicted that, by 2013, the global market for 3D Printing [...]

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Today, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on his Democrat and Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate to stand by their commitment to prevent Gitmo detainees from being transferred to the U.S. by signing on to his legislation (S.370). Senators Inhofe and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) yesterday introduced [...]

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Following the May 7 roll-out of the fiscal year 2010 budget proposal for the Department of Defense, Air Force officials announced in a news release today plans to retire legacy fighters to fund a smaller and more capable force and redistribute people for higher priority missions. The Combat Air Forces restructuring plan would accelerate the [...]

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Below are three videos which capture some of the emotions of Chrysler dealers in Georgia, Michigan and New York who’ve been told their dealerships are set to close: Video #1 (above): Daniel Womack, owner of a Claxton Chrysler in rural Claxton, Ga., warns the loss of his dealership in a town where everyone knows each [...]

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In an investigative report that aired last night on NBC affiliate KSDK Channel 5, reporter Leisa Zigman tried to stoke the fires of anger and discontent that have been brewing in St. Louis ever since the 2008 purchase of Anheuser-Busch by Belgium brewer InBev.  She went so far as to compare the actions of executives [...]

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