Bob McCarty Writes

As a former Air Force officer, I like to “talk trash” when it comes to interservice rivalry.  Today, however, I must commend the folks serving aboard the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan and other U.S. Navy vessels in the Pacific as they risk radiation contamination while conducting rescue and recovery operations in Japan. The video below tells [...]

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Like millions of people around the world, I awoke hungry for details of the 8.9 megaquake that struck Japan just after 2:30 p.m. local time Friday.  When I landed at the web site for the International Tsunami Information Center, a center in Honolulu that was allocated $28 million for fiscal year 2011 and $29 million [...]

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An earthquake registering at 8.8 magnitude struck approximately 80 miles east of the island of Honshu, Japan, at 2:46 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Japan’s NHK television network is reporting that the national meteorological agency has issued a major tsunami warning to coastal areas in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. Based [...]

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The annual “Yellowstone is shaking and might erupt” news reports have surfaced, prompting me to ponder how the Obama Administration might respond to a natural disaster with its epicenter at the national park. The New York Times, among others, reported today that more than 100 mostly-tiny earthquakes a day, on average, have rattled a remote [...]

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The headline above isn’t true, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see headlines like it pop up during the next few days following news that senior Obama Administration officials had ordered a suspension of airlifts of critically-ill Haitians to the United States. While driving to St. Louis Lambert International Airport earlier this evening, I heard [...]

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Two earth-rattling events took place on opposite sides of Planet Earth this afternoon, leaving many to wonder (1) if they are somehow related and (2) which will cause the most damage. The first event took place just before one o’clock Eastern.  According to this report, the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives acted “with lightning speed” [...]

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With earthquake swarms rattling Yellowstone National Park, seismologists speculating about whether a mega-eruption is imminent and Wyoming residents raising tough questions about the danger of such an event in local newspapers, I can’t help but wonder why Barack Obama hasn’t told the American people how he’s going to save us from the carnage sure to [...]

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