Bob McCarty Writes

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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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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In an article published late this afternoon, the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle is reporting that a two-week strike by civilian contractor employees at Vance Air Force Base is over and that the more than 700 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 898 will report back to work Tuesday.
While [...]

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Rick Boardman can say all he wants to a reporter for the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle — as he does in the video above — in an attempt to justify the decision to strike that garnered support of 94 percent of the union members for whom he serves as president.  What he needs to [...]

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Lightning strikes are unpredictable.  Labor union strikes…not so much.  Both, however, can be damaging.
When I was growing up in Enid, Okla., a small northwest Oklahoma town of 47,000, lightning was a normal part of life, especially in the spring.  Labor strikes, on the other hand, happened only on very rare occasions.  Why?  Because the area’s [...]

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