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Northrop Grumman Ends Bid for Tanker Contract

March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

After publishing 13 posts during the past two years about the battle over the contract to produce new inflight refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, today I’m pleased to report good good news in the form of a statement from Wes Bush, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation [Editor's Note: Click [...]

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Proposed Law Would Keep Best Tools Out of the Hands of Law Enforcement During War on Terror

February 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Like many Americans, you might deem the information below “yawnworthy.”  If, however, you’re interested in ensuring that our nation’s Departments of Defense and Homeland Security are equipped with the best possible tools to fight the War on Terror, you’ll be interested in what happens in states like Washington where a push is being waged to [...]

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No Need for Research, Interrogation Tool Exists

February 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

More than 1,800 law enforcement agencies across the United States are using non-polygraph technology to interrogate suspected criminals with great success — above 95 percent accuracy, according to one university professor who studied more than 2,100 case files. More than 400 members of the U.S. military — including individuals in our nation’s most-elite special operations [...]

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Congress to Debate Raising Debt Limit — Again!

January 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Congress is scheduled to begin debate tomorrow on raising the debt ceiling near the $12.4 trillion limit, and Americans need to take action to stop them, according to the folks at the Employment Policies Institute.  Why?  Because spending is out of control. “Last year, all of the government’s tax revenue was used to cover Social [...]

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Report on Fort Hood Shootings a ‘Whitewash’

January 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Appearing on Fox News Channel, retired Army Col. Ralph Peters described the recently-released Department of Defense report on the shootings at Fort Hood as a “whitewash” of a report that never asked the question, “Why did this happen?” Peters, author of “The War After Armageddon,” blamed the pervasive climate of political correctness in the Army [...]

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Check Out My Latest Piece at Pajamas Media

January 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Hey folks, check out my latest piece, Small Group of Bureaucrats Hampering Use of Anti-Terror Technology, published today at Pajamas Media. Based on an interview Monday with Professor James Chapman, the world’s foremost authority on the use of Computer Voice Stress Analysis® as a tool that can be used by law enforcement, intelligence and military [...]

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CIA Deaths, Terrorism Could Have Been Prevented

January 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments

James Chapman was as distraught as any patriotic American about seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan being killed in an explosion set off by a double-agent Dec. 31. The 67-year-old Marine Corps veteran made it clear that he hated to see our nation’s security compromised the way it was Christmas Day when a 23-year-old Nigerian man, [...]

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