Jake Johnson is a man with more than a decade of Special Operations experience who left the service in 2006 for a sales career in Arizona. During a recent interview, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to ask him about a NATO proposal to award what some are calling the “Courageous Restraint Medal” to soldiers in [...]
Entries from May 2010
Special Forces Veteran Says ‘No’ to Courageous Restraint Medal for Troops Who Don’t Shoot
May 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: · Bob McCarty, Defense, Special Forces
Motorcyclist Rally to Support Imprisoned Soldier
May 18th, 2010 · No Comments
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, I share a message that Scott and Vicki Behenna sent today to supporters of their son, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, in conjunction with his 27th birthday, the second birthday he’s spent behind bars following his wrongful conviction, sentencing and imprisonment by an Army court-martial panel for killing a known Al-Qaeda [...]
Tags: · Army, Bob McCarty, michael behenna
Kerry and Lieberman Introduce New Gas Tax
May 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments
American Solutions is warning Americans about a new piece of legislation introduced today by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) that will burden Americans with a new gas tax. The excerpt below, from an e-mail sent out by Vince Haley, the group’s vice president of policy, explains what’s at stake, thanks to the [...]
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Salazar Shares Anti-Oil Message With Employees
May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
One week ago, I shared the text of a message Interior Secretary Ken Salazar sent to all employees of his department two weeks after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster began in the Gulf of Mexico. It was provided to me by a friend who works for DOI. Today, I share the text of his most-recent [...]
Tags: · Bob McCarty, BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Ken Salazar, oil and natural gas industry
Census Worker Charged With Rape, Burglary (Update)
May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Barely three months after I advised Americans to Think Twice Before Opening Door to Census Worker, two Indiana women were allegedly attacked by 39-year-old Daniel Miller, a U.S. Census worker who had been on the job for two weeks and now faces rape and burglary charges, according to a news report (below) out of Indianapolis. [...]
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Texas Top State for Business, California Worst
May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
For the fifth year in a row, CEOs rated Texas as the #1 state in which to do business and California as the worst, according to a Chief Executive magazine survey. North Carolina maintained its #2 rank, while Tennessee rose two positions to the #3 spot. Virginia was up three slots from last year to [...]
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Hearing Set for Army Officer on Eligibility Issue (Update)
May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
A formal hearing for Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, the flight surgeon who’s being court-martialed for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until President Barack Obama proves his eligibility under the Constitution to serve as president of the United States, is set to take place June 11 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, according to a [...]
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