February 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Imagine tons of explosives being stolen in Mexico and then transported by truck across the border into the United States. Could it happen? Over the weekend, it did. Almost.
On Friday, according to an article in the Latin American Herald Tribune, 18 tons of industrial explosives were stolen from a cargo container during a robbery along [...]
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February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
It was almost 9 p.m. in Tehran as I published this post, and people around the world are still trying to decide what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threatened “punch” against the West is going to be. Some influential Americans appear to think it might come as a cyber attack.
For more information, I direct your attention [...]
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February 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Like many Americans, you might deem the information below “yawnworthy.” If, however, you’re interested in ensuring that our nation’s Departments of Defense and Homeland Security are equipped with the best possible tools to fight the War on Terror, you’ll be interested in what happens in states like Washington where a push is being waged to [...]
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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, Umar [...]
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Cartoonist David Donar of Political Graffiti seems to have come up with a solution to two issues at the center of heated debates — health care reform and airport security.
By having Transportation Security Administration screeners perform some basic health care screenings in conjunction with their passenger-screening duties, we can tackle both problems and realize cost-cutting [...]
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