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Congress Leads Border Patrol Down Wrong Path

December 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Less than a week after another Border Patrol agent was killed by Mexican bandits, Congress forwarded to the White House a bill that, within two years of its enactment, will result in Customs and Border Patrol heading down the same misguided path the Department of Defense took in 2007 when it comes to interrogation technology. [...]

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Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives (Update)

December 7th, 2010 · 11 Comments

By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, [...]

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Stop Whining About Too Much Snow

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

In case you’re one of those who finds yourself whining about too much snow and thinking that winter has made your life uncomfortable, think about our fighting men and women serving in Afghanistan are enduring. The U.S. Army photo above, shot by Sgt. Russell Gilchrest, shows a U.S. Army soldier from the 118th Military Police [...]

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Top 25 Posts Propel Blog to Record-Setting Year

December 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

It’s been another record-setting year at Bob McCarty Writes.  Three days shy of the new year, this blog has logged more than 1.9 million page views and attracted nearly 500,000 unique visitors. Much of this blog’s success is due to the popularity of 25 most-viewed posts published on this blog during 2008.  The headlines and [...]

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Fort Bragg Soldiers Living in Deplorable Conditions

April 29th, 2008 · 17 Comments

Believe it or not, I learned about some ought-to-be-condemned facilities in which Army soldiers are living at Fort Bragg by reading a post at the ON DEADLINE blog at USA TODAY: Edward Frawley posted this video on YouTube after seeing the conditions his son was living in at Fort Bragg following a 15-month deployment to [...]

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