Only three days after Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the new rules that prohibit drivers of trucks and buses from using cell phones and texting while behind the wheel, officials at the Highway Loss Data Institute released study findings that show no reductions in crashes after hand-held phone bans take effect. Rresearchers for HLDI, an [...]
Was Trucker Cell Phone, Texting Ban Premature?
January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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No Buggy Required to Avoid Health Care Mandate
January 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments
My first thought after reading the headline of an article in the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times was, “I’m gonna become Amish.” The headline: Amish families exempt from insurance mandate. Delving into the article, I learned that the health care reform legislation now floating through the halls of Congress does not specify that members of the [...]
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CIA Deaths, Terrorism Could Have Been Prevented
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, [...]
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The Michael Behenna Story: Part Nine
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments
EDITOR’S NOTE: On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda agent operating near Albu Toma, an area north of Baghdad. Seven months later, the leader of the 18-member Delta Company, 5th platoon of the Army 101st Airborne Infantry Division was convicted [...]
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The Michael Behenna Story: Part Eight
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments
EDITOR’S NOTE: On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda agent operating near Albu Toma, an area north of Baghdad. Seven months later, the leader of the 18-member Delta Company, 5th platoon of the Army 101st Airborne Infantry Division was convicted [...]
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Help Army 1st Lt Michael Behenna Find Justice
December 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna finds himself in a cell at Fort Leavenworth. Join the effort to help him obtain justice — and freedom — by sharing the information below with bloggers, journalists, talk show hosts, elected officials and anyone with a forum to help the American people find out about his case: WHY [...]
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Army Officer Kills Al-Qaeda Operative, Imprisoned After Prosecutors Ignore Own Expert Witness
December 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments
By Bob McCarty and Carrie Fatigante An e-mail Dr. Herbert Leon MacDonell sent to Capts. Meghan Poirier, Jason Elbert and Erwin Roberts — Army prosecutors all — just after 4 o’clock in the afternoon Feb. 27, 2009, should have warranted their attention for several reasons, but they opted to treat the information it contained in [...]
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