Every year, it gets more difficult to decide what to include in my end-of-year wrap-up stories. This year, I decided to reflect on my favorite interviews of 2010. They appear below: Roy Blunt Needs Education About Tea Party Folks — During a Feb. 26 interview with Roy Blunt, the seven-term congressman who would go on [...]
2010 Interviews Tackled Politics and Combat
December 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Missile Launch Incident Raises Serious Questions
November 9th, 2010 · 8 Comments
As a former Air Force public affairs officer who served for nearly two years with the 381st Strategic Missile Wing — think Titan II ICBMs — at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., I can guarantee with 100 percent certainty that officials inside the Pentagon know the exact location from which the large missile [...]
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Despite President Obama’s Objections, Those in Uniform Know Global War on Terror Continues
November 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Almost nine months ago, President Barack Obama ordered members of his administration to stop using the phrase “Global War on Terror” to describe the nation’s effort to fight back against the likes of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. In it’s place, he let it be known that “overseas contingency operation” was a term better suited to [...]
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Attorney Calls for Formal Investigation of DoD Contract for Study of Portable Lie Detectors
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
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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Law Professors Snubbed U.S. Northern Command
October 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Writer Wrong About Obama’s Defense Positions
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Air Force Tanker Competition Begins Anew
July 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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 billion contract award to Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space [...]
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