Bob McCarty Writes

Fox News Channel is reporting that flights across the country are being affected by the failure of a computer communications system located at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.  That system, according to Fox, handles FAA flight planning for aircraft based, primarily, on the East Coast. The FAA web site’s status information map (above) indicates general airport conditions [...]

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Crane Durham, host of the Nothing But Truth radio program on 97.1 FM Talk, expressed wonder this morning about the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement that terrorism was not behind the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Why? Because the announcement came before any official investigation had taken place to determine a cause. In response to [...]

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Folks, this is difficult for me to write, so bear with me as I outline a series of seemingly-inexplicable events related to my recent coverage of terrorists suspected of conducting “dry runs” at the nation’s airports. On Wednesday, I wrote an investigative piece, Terrorists Recognize ‘Power of Cheese’, that sought answers to under-reported details of [...]

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Today, I read an article, Ex-Marine, 72, Teaches Pickpocket a Lesson. Published at FoxNews.com, it highlighted the story of Bill Barnes, an ex-Marine, former Golden Gloves boxer and retired iron worker who took matters into his own hands after a suspicious character had “invaded” his space. To be precise, Barnes detected a would-be pickpocket attempting [...]

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We learned today that a bipartisan Congressional committee has authorized, for undisclosed reasons, Secret Service protection for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). It stands as the earliest such authorization in U.S. history. Here’s what this news means from a purely partisan political angle: Senator Obama is costing the American taxpayer more than his counterparts already — [...]

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