Bob McCarty Writes

Though I’m all in favor of boosting national security, the prospect of surveillance drones spying on Americans makes me sick to my stomach.  I can only describe it as “red-light cameras on steroids.” The video footage above shows what appears to be an unmanned aerial vehicle (a.k.a., “UAV” or “drone”) soaring across the sky above [...]

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As I read through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s February 2012 document, Environmental Justice Strategy, I was reminded of a post I had published around the time of the National Football League’s 2010 Super Bowl.  It included one spot lifted from a series of tongue-in-cheek Audi commercials in which members of the “Green Police” [...]

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As recently as last week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was one of a handful of members of Congress who asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate possible “duplication of effort and internal redundancies” involving agencies of the federal government.  With that fresh on my mind, I was struck by a troubling question when I saw the [...]

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A preliminary hearing for Mohamed H. Dawod is set to take place Oct. 12.  Now, one question remains:  Will the mainstream media show any interest in the case that involves a man with a Muslim name allegedly shooting a man he didn’t know in a public place on the eve of the 10th anniversary of [...]

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Having spent a number of years in the media relations business, I’m familiar with the concept of releasing “bad news” on Friday.  Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano used that approach to share news about her decision to cancel the Secure Border Initiative (a.k.a., “electronic fence”) that was supposed to help safeguard the nation’s southern [...]

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Tonight, I came across a very intriguing story about a lady who went through security at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers International Airport while seated in a wheelchair, carrying a dog and wearing only her underwear.  I share it with you, not because I came across it a short time after I publishing a an airport [...]

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Full-body scans, pat-downs and other procedures wouldn’t be necessary at the nation’s airports if the federal government, including the Transportation Security Administration, would only turn to a safer, touch-free, passenger-friendly technology with nearly four decades of success behind it. Because of its timeliness in relation to current events, I share a slightly-modified version (below the [...]

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