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Entries from November 2011

Best News of the Week: Amazon Best-Seller List

November 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment

The best news of the week came Friday when I learned that my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice, had made it on an Amazon.com best-seller list. Of course, that was only one of the notable events highlighted below in this week’s recap: MONDAY, Nov. 7 [...]

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Barack Obama Costs Nation Another 20,000 Jobs

November 12th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger On April 11, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had a telephone conversation with National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel Lafe Solomon, a recent Barack Obama appointee.  According to a Solomon file note obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the watchdog group, Judicial Watch, Graham warned of [...]

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‘Three Days In August’ Joins Best-Seller List!

November 11th, 2011 · No Comments

Barely three weeks after it’s release, there is great news to share about my new book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice:  The Kindle version now ranks in the #9 position and the paperback in the #12 spot among Amazon.com’s best-selling new and future releases in the [...]

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Soldier’s Last Chance for Justice Approaching

November 10th, 2011 · No Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1LT Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda agent operating near Albu Toma, an area north of Baghdad.  Seven months later, the leader of the 18-member Delta Company, 5th platoon of the Army 101st Airborne Infantry Division was convicted of [...]

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‘It felt like someone put lighter fluid on me and caught me on fire’

November 9th, 2011 · No Comments

Having already survived several combat deployments in Iraq, Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart probably never expected to come face to face with death during a tour of “schoolhouse duty” at a NATO training center in Germany, but he did. Some details of the Green Beret’s brush with death are contained in [...]

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Explanation Offered for Title of New Book

November 8th, 2011 · No Comments

Since releasing Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice three weeks ago, several people have asked me to explain how I came up with the title. The first four words of the title reference the time element during which Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart‘s court-martial took place [...]

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Rick Perry: Once A Democrat, Always A Democrat?

November 8th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger At a time when the Republican field was limited to Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Gary Johnson (Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman still had not announced), it looked as if the Republican nomination would be wide open for a man like [...]

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