With the prospect of a government shutdown looming as Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans battle obstructionist Democrats, I decided to turn back the pages of history and examine the effects of the most-recent government shutdown which began Dec. 16, 1995, and ended Jan. 6, 1996. According to the Congressional Research Service report, “Shutdown of [...]
Report Details Impact of 1995-96 Shutdown (Update)
April 8th, 2011 · No Comments
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I’m Stepping Away From Full-Time Blogging
June 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments
With the fourth anniversary of this blog’s birth less than five months away, I’m using this post to announce that I’m stepping away from full-time blogging at BobMcCarty.com. Why slow down after publishing nearly 4,000 posts? Several reasons exist, but I’ll limit myself to the most important one: I WANT TO FINISH WRITING MY FIRST [...]
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Counterterrorism Drill Compromised By PR Effort
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Terrorists looking for an opportunity to study how law enforcement agencies conduct a regional counterterrorism exercise received a gift Wednesday night. It came in the form of an embargoed news release. I came across the news release, a partial image of which appears above, via PR Newswire Wednesday at 8:37 p.m. Central. Issued by the [...]
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Check Out My Latest Piece at Pajamas Media
January 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Hey folks, check out my latest piece, Small Group of Bureaucrats Hampering Use of Anti-Terror Technology, published today at Pajamas Media. Based on an interview Monday with Professor James Chapman, the world’s foremost authority on the use of Computer Voice Stress Analysis® as a tool that can be used by law enforcement, intelligence and military [...]
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Did Obama Place INTERPOL Above U.S. Law?
December 29th, 2009 · 8 Comments
After learning recently that President Barack Obama had, on Dec. 17, quietly amended Executive Order 12425, I decided to find out what impact, if any, it might have on Americans. At first blind to the potential ramifications of the amendment, I was startled at what I found once the pieces of this disturbing political puzzle [...]
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Blogger Approached About Appearing in Documentary Special About Militia Movement
December 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments
What is it with me and this bond I seem to have with the militia movement? On March 18, I was inspired to write and publish a mostly-humorous post under the headline, Yikes, I Might Be Part of the Militia Movement! The inspiration came in the form of news that the Missouri Information Analysis Center [...]
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An Arresting Tale: From Podium to Pokey in 10 Days
October 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments
On Oct. 2, Catherine Bleish was one of a handful of speakers who revved up a crowd of 2,000 at the St. Charles (Mo.) Tea Party. Ten days later, she found herself in jail in the South St. Louis city of Maplewood. “I was standing in line outside,” the 25-year-old told me Monday afternoon during [...]
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