Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced what was touted as a “major aviation security milestone”. Specifically, she claimed in a news release that 100 percent of passengers traveling within the United States and its territories are now being checked against terrorist watchlists through the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight program—a major step [...]
Entries from June 2010
Serious Flaws in Homeland Security IT System
June 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: · Bob McCarty, Department of Homeland Security, information technology, Terrorism, Transportation Security Administration
Congressman Phil Hare Fails With Vets and Threats
June 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Earlier this week, I reported here and here about an incident that took place between Ken Moffett and U.S. Rep. Phil Hare, a two-term Democrat from Rock Island, Ill., who is running for re-election in Illinois’ 17th Congressional District. It seems Congressman Hare has been selling himself on the campaign trail as a tried-and-true military [...]
Tags: · Bob McCarty, Congress, Illinois, Phil Hare
I’m Stepping Away From Full-Time Blogging
June 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments
With the fourth anniversary of this blog’s birth less than five months away, I’m using this post to announce that I’m stepping away from full-time blogging at BobMcCarty.com. Why slow down after publishing nearly 4,000 posts? Several reasons exist, but I’ll limit myself to the most important one: I WANT TO FINISH WRITING MY FIRST [...]
Tags: · academia, academicians, Armed Forces, big government, Blogging, Bob McCarty, content theft, elected officials, full-time blogging, Government, government bureaucrats, I'm Stepping Away from Full-Time Blogging, lack of support, law enforcement, military, non-fiction book, Pajamas Media, terrorists, writing a book
Officer’s Requests for Testimony, Records Denied (Update)
June 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Article 32 hearing for the decorated Army officer demanding that Barack Obama prove his eligibility under the Constitution to serve as president and commander-in-chief will proceed without testimony from any government official about records that would prove — if they exist at all — that Obama is eligible to serve. Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, [...]
Tags: · Afghanistan, Army, army chief of staff, army officer, article 32, article 32 investigation, Barack Obama, Columbia University, Commander in Chief, dr chiyome fukino, gen george w casey, george w casey, hard labor, harvard law school, hawaii, hawaii department of health, lt col daniel j driscoll, lt col terrence lakin, ltc terrence lakin, maj gen carla hawley-bowland, military judge, Obama, occidental colege, Officer's Requests for Testimony Records Denied, President, president's eligibility, punahou school, terrence lakin, walter reed, walter reed army medical center
Phil Hare Needs to Stop Calling Himself A Veteran (Update)
June 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments
U.S. Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.) is back in the news two months after he was caught on video(below), saying, “I don’t care about the Constitution.” This time, however, he’s drawn the ire of a military veteran who wants the two-term congressman from Illinois’ 17th Congressional District to stop calling himself a veteran. In a letter [...]
Tags: · 17th congressional district, blake chisam, congressman hare, congressman phil hare, hare, hare calls himself a veteran, house committee on standards of official conduct, Illinois, It's Time for Phil Hare to Prove He's A Veteran, military veteran, moline, Phil Hare, us rep phil hare, veteran
Protests Grow Outside Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv
June 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Three days ago, I shared a post containing exclusive video of protests taking place outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv. Today, I offer exclusive coverage of a second protest rally held Thursday evening. It shows a growing number of people are taking to the streets to protest the Turkish government’s involvement with the Gaza-bound [...]
Tags: · anti-turkey protest, crisis in the Middle East, flotilla, gaza, gaza-bound flotilla, Israel, Israeli blockade, Middle East, protests, Protests Grow Outside Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, tel aviv, Turkey, turkish embassy
How Far Are Environmentalists Willing to Go?
June 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
How far are environmentalists willing to go to exploit the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster? I have proof that they’re gushing outright lies about “Big Oil”. Below is an example of the kinds of blatant lies being circulated via e-mail about San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corporation [Note: To protect the identity of the recipient of the [...]
Tags: · Big Oil, Bob McCarty, bp, chevron, Environmentalists, gulf of mexico, oil spill
