Bob McCarty Writes

In a post almost seven months ago, I reported on a claim that the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held portable lie detector system made by Lafayette Instrument Company, was never tested for countermeasures before it was deployed to troops in combat zones and that it was the success of National Institute for Truth [...]

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During an appearance as the guest speaker at the Oct. 8 meeting of The World Affairs Council of San Antonio, Jeffrey F. Addicott told the story of what happened after U.S. Northern Command issued a plea for help to professors serving at the nation’s 200 law schools:  Only one professor replied.  Addicott.
Distinguished Professor of Law [...]

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In the second paragraph of his Salon.com piece today, writer Glenn Greenwald claims President Barack Obama campaigned on a platform of increased defense spending. One needs only visit the Obama-Biden campaign web site or watch a campaign-trail video of Obama to see that the ever-so-hopeful writer is mistaken.
In Ten Reasons NOT to Elect Barack Obama, [...]

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Though I walked away from my Russian language classes more than 20 years ago with only rudimentary language skills, I learned a lot about the Russian people by studying their proverbs. Below, I share some Russian proverbs I think might shed light on the current conflict between Russia and Georgia:
Proverb: Where two are fighting, [...]

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It appears that public pressure — including eight BMW posts — did some good as the U.S. Defense Department has decided to reopen the KC-X aerial refueling tanker competition.

The decision comes four months after the Pentagon’s original awarding of a $35 [...]

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