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Local News Outlets Interested in Weldon Spring

February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments

Eleven days after publishing an exclusive story about Missouri health agency officials refusing to answer questions or inform St. Charles County (Mo.) residents about a new Weldon Spring cancer report, it appears that story is beginning to attract attention from St. Louis-area news media outlets. Yesterday, I received an email from Blythe Bernhard, medical reporter [...]

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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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Nuclear Weapons Facility in Texas on Lockdown! (Update)

January 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments

The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration PANTEX Plant, the nation’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility located 17 miles northeast of Amarillo, Texas, is on lockdown, according to a news release from the facility, the text of which appears below: NEWS RELEASE Pantex Activates Emergency Response Organization The Plant is in a [...]

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China Plays It Smart While Democrats Destroy: What You Need to Know About Your Energy Future

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments

As so-called “cap-and-trade” legislation winds its way through Congress, many Americans want to know how they their country’s energy future might be impacted if the legislation becomes law.  Because the mainstream media isn’t being too honest about the topic, they have to find alternative sources of information, including the blog you’re reading now.  Another good [...]

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Jerusalem Post Publishes ‘Must-Read’ Editorial

June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Amidst serious post-election turmoil in Iran, President Barack Obama has been quoted during the last 24 hours as saying that the United States respects that country’s sovereignty.  It’s too bad he doesn’t care as much for the people of Israel. One person who has taken notice of President Obama’s apparent “cold shoulder” toward the Jewish [...]

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One Nuclear Option Best for Iran, North Korea

May 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The cartoon above captures perfectly the best nuclear weapons options available to Iran and North Korea as both seek to become nuclear powers. [Hat tip: David Donar at Political Graffiti]

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Letter Encourages Barack Obama to Read ‘The JOE’

January 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Dear President-Elect Obama; If you do nothing else before taking office as president, I hope you will read The Joint Operating Environment 2008 (a.k.a., “The JOE”), a U.S. Joint Forces Command report that contains the following bit of military forecasting: In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large [...]

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