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Passenger-Friendly Screening Technology Ready (Update)

December 1st, 2010 · 36 Comments

Full-body scans, pat-downs and other procedures wouldn’t be necessary at the nation’s airports if the federal government, including the Transportation Security Administration, would only turn to a safer, touch-free, passenger-friendly technology with nearly four decades of success behind it. Because of its timeliness in relation to current events, I share a slightly-modified version (below the [...]

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Army Mom Pens Powerful Letter to Army Secretary

October 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Fresh on the heels of publishing a piece about Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna’s upcoming review by the Army Court of Appeals, I decided to share — with permission — the text of a letter written by Beverly Perlson — the spark plug behind pro-troops group, The Band of Mothers — to Secretary of [...]

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Proposed Law Would Keep Best Tools Out of the Hands of Law Enforcement During War on Terror

February 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Like many Americans, you might deem the information below “yawnworthy.”  If, however, you’re interested in ensuring that our nation’s Departments of Defense and Homeland Security are equipped with the best possible tools to fight the War on Terror, you’ll be interested in what happens in states like Washington where a push is being waged to [...]

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‘Rhetoric v. Reality’: Obama Fails to Deliver

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments

The video, “Rhetoric v. Reality” (below), highlights numerous campaign promises related to the War on Terror Overseas Contingency Operations upon which President Barack Obama has failed to deliver. The video above comes only one day after I published a post which included a video highlighting an average citizen’s calls (1) for Attorney General Eric Holder [...]

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Florida Firm Cites BMW Posts in News Release

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie detectors in combat: Two-Part Investigative Series: Military ‘Turf War’ Places Americans at Increased Risk In a recently-published two-part investigative series, a [...]

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Senator Inhofe Reviews Obama Defense Budget

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke on the Senate floor Monday, delivered a detailed review of the Obama administration’s proposed cuts to the Department of Defense budget Monday.  Below left is a video of his speech and, in italics below, is the text of the first three minutes [...]

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Inhofe: ‘President Obama is disarming America’

April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In a You Tube video today from Afghanistan, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) blasted an announcement by the Obama Administration that they propose to make deep, widespread cuts to the military budget. The announcement, made at the Pentagon this morning by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, comes as more than 200,000 servicemen and women are deployed [...]

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