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Dr. Kevorkian Alive and Well in Sacramento

January 10th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger By now, almost every living American, other than public employees and their union officials, is aware that state governments across the nation are on the verge of fiscal collapse. According to a February 2010 Washington Post report, “Even before financial markets crashed in fall 2008, state governments nationwide had [...]

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Passenger-Friendly Screening Technology Ready (Update)

December 1st, 2010 · 36 Comments

Full-body scans, pat-downs and other procedures wouldn’t be necessary at the nation’s airports if the federal government, including the Transportation Security Administration, would only turn to a safer, touch-free, passenger-friendly technology with nearly four decades of success behind it. Because of its timeliness in relation to current events, I share a slightly-modified version (below the [...]

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Airport Security Breach in Detroit! (Update)

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments

A security breach at Detroit’s Metro Wayne County Airport resulted in the arrest of a man just before 8 a.m. Eastern today.  It also prompted re-screenings of hundreds of passengers. The man apparently walked through the Transportation Security Administration screening area, according to a Michigan Public Radio report, ignoring repeated orders to stop, and proceeded [...]

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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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Coming Soon: Interview with Expert Who Has Counterterrorism Technology Ready for Use

January 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Almost two weeks after an Al-Qaeda terrorist failed in his attempt to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route to Detroit from Amsterdam and after eight CIA employees were killed by a “double agent” in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama explained to the nation Thursday that “America’s first line of defense is timely, accurate intelligence [...]

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Homeland Security’s Napolitano: ‘System Worked’

December 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano can’t seem to get her story straight. On Sunday, she told a CNN “State of the Union” audience “the system worked” to stop the attempted Christmas Day terrorist bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam.  A day later, she said airline security failed.  Finally, the [...]

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ABC Refuses to Identify NWA Incident as Terrorism (Update)

December 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Two sentences contained in an ABC News article published today stand as proof that the network and its faux reporters are in denial when it comes to identifying terrorism and terrorists: It is unclear how powerful the explosive could have been and what the man’s intentions were. Initial reports were that fireworks or firecrackers had [...]

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