By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Sixty-six years and six months ago, the largest amphibious force ever assembled sailed across the stormy waters of the English Channel, bound for the heavily fortified beaches of Normandy, France. Nearly half of the 156,000 invasion troops were Americans. They and the troops of allied nations suffered massive casualties [...]
World Too Dangerous for Well-Intentioned Amateurs
December 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments
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New Survey: Americans More Concerned Than Ever About Obama Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments
Americans are more concerned than ever that the ongoing Obama administration effort to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba will allow dangerous terrorists to go free, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Eighty-four percent of likely U.S. voters are now at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free [...]
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Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives (Update)
December 7th, 2010 · 11 Comments
By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, [...]
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Passenger-Friendly Screening Technology Ready (Update)
December 1st, 2010 · 36 Comments
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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Parents Share Update on Wrongly-Imprisoned Son
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the latest message sent by Scott and Vicki Behenna about their son, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, a man who’s serving a 15-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth following his wrongful conviction, sentencing and imprisonment for killing a known Al-Qaeda operative in Iraq in self-defense: To all Michael Behenna supporters, With [...]
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Ignoring Obama Birth Certificate Issue, Democrat Demands GOP Candidate’s Birth Certificate
July 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Hector Maldonado hasn’t gained much traction in his bid to win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate race in Missouri. Recently, however, he did earned national headlines when he told a campaign crowd in Branson that he’s thinking about filing a lawsuit against Robin “Coakley” Carnahan, the lone Democrat in a contest littered with Republicans [...]
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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, [...]
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