Bob McCarty Writes

Three words — terror, terrorism and terrorists — came to mind after reading a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about five visiting scholars from Kabul University in Afghanistan being reported missing from the University of Washington.  None of those words, however, appeared in the left-coast newspaper article, despite the fact that our nation is waging a war [...]

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In the wake of this weekend’s terrorist strike upon the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, new poll results released by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs this morning show significant support among the American public for rooting out and going after terrorist leaders in their Pakistani hideouts:

Asked what the United States should do if it [...]

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A Pakistani semi-truck driver and his passenger reportedly raised red flags with law enforcement officials when their load mysteriously lightened between weigh stations while on I-70 en route to Denver, host city for the Democratic National Convention Aug. 25-28.
I became aware of this report after my comprehensive Google Alert search for the phrase, “Terror Alert,” [...]

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If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” It’s a truism that applies to people at all levels of society. Not surprisingly, it applies equally to both nouveau riche homeowners and to candidates running for president of the United States.
A CASE [...]

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Today, I recognized an instance of life imitating art in my corner of the world and thought it worth sharing with a world engaged in a Global War on Terror.
I was one-third of the way through ACT OF TREASON, the latest terror-action novel by Vince Flynn, when I came across a BBC News article about [...]

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