Every year, it gets more difficult to decide what to include in my end-of-year wrap-up stories. This year, I decided to reflect on my favorite interviews of 2010. They appear below: Roy Blunt Needs Education About Tea Party Folks — During a Feb. 26 interview with Roy Blunt, the seven-term congressman who would go on [...]
2010 Interviews Tackled Politics and Combat
December 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Will Military’s Homeland Security Mission Grow?
July 10th, 2010 · 11 Comments
One and a half years ago, the folks at the CATO Institute published a piece under the headline, Be Wary of Using Military as Police. In the opening paragraph, they offered a warning of sorts: The mainstream media has finally gotten around to reporting that the Pentagon has assigned active-duty troops to a homeland defense [...]
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Read My Latest Piece at Pajamas Media (Update)
April 7th, 2010 · No Comments
Check out my latest piece, Smashing the Left’s Stereotypes about Tea Partiers, published this morning at Pajamas Media. Here’s a snippet: I had the privilege of interviewing three interesting individuals among the 500 or more who attended the Tea Party Express III rally Monday afternoon in St. Charles, Mo. One is a student at nearby [...]
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State Prison Numbers Dip for First Time Since 1972
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments
For the first time in nearly 40 years, the number of state prisoners in the United States has declined, according to Prison Count 2010, a new survey by the Pew Center on the States. The decline is not due solely to budget shortfalls at the state level which prompt early release of inmates, the survey [...]
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Whatever Happened to Henrietta Hughes?
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Henrietta Hughes tugged at the nation’s heartstrings when she stood Feb. 10, 2009, at a town hall gathering in Fort Myers, Fla., and told President Barack Obama about how she and her adult son, Corey, were homeless, living in a vehicle and in need of “our own kitchen and our own bathroom.” Whatever happened to [...]
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Tiger Woods Seriously Injured in Car Wreck – NOT!
November 27th, 2009 · No Comments
UPDATE 11/27/09 at 4:13 p.m. Central: Incredibly, it appears members of the mainstream media either jumped to conclusions or just plain got it wrong. Tiger is, according to the latest report from his publicist via ESPN, in good condition and has been released from the hospital: Breaking News: Golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured in [...]
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One Dead in Orlando Shooting (Update #7)
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Breaking News: The Orlando Sentinel and other media outlets are reporting that eight people have been injured in a shooting incident in downtown Orlando. Is it a copycat shooting less than 24 hours after the massacre at Fort Hood? Developing… UDPATE #1 11/6/09 at 11:55 p.m. Central: Fox News is reporting that the shootings took [...]
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