Bob McCarty Writes

Shouldn’t front-line soldiers be able to use equipment deemed most effective by those who’ve used it in the field?  Most people believe would agree to that, but not the folks at the Pentagon — and, specifically, the folks in the Army’s polygraph community.
Consider these facts:

More than 1,800 law enforcement agencies across the country trust Computer [...]

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Rick Boardman can say all he wants to a reporter for the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle — as he does in the video above — in an attempt to justify the decision to strike that garnered support of 94 percent of the union members for whom he serves as president.  What he needs to [...]

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I remain dumbfounded by the nerve and/or stupidity of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers members who went on strike Monday — and remain on strike today — against their employers, CSC Applied Technologies and its subcontractors at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Okla.
Five days ago, I reported on the beginning of [...]

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Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna of Edmond, Okla., was convicted of executing an Iraqi detainee, Ali Mansur, on May 16, 2008, according to a recent report at NewsOK.com.  Many, including a bipartisan group of more than two dozen prominent Oklahoma attorneys, are waging a campaign to have the conviction overturned.  Recently, they sent this [...]

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Published under the GQ headline, “AND HE WILL BE JUDGED,” Robert Draper’s lengthy feature article about Donald Rumsfeld is chock full of criticism about the former secretary of defense and his boss in the Oval Office.  What I found more worthwhile about the article, however, were details about Scripture verses that began appearing on Pentagon [...]

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