UPDATE 10/01/11 at 3:05 p.m. Central: With my book, Three Days In August, scheduled for release Oct. 19, I’ve removed posts containing content found in the book and ask readers to visit the book’s website to learn more about it. Thanks! If you enjoy this blog and want to keep reading stories like the one [...]
Soldier Refused to Violate Code of Conduct (Update)
January 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments
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Americans Being ‘Fist Bumped’ by Democrats
April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Until Barack and Michelle Obama received so much attention in the press after exchanging one on the campaign trail, I wasn’t very familiar with the “fist bump.” So I decided to do some research. The Wikipedia definition for fist bump includes the following: “The fist bump (also called a knuckleslap, knudge, fist pound, bro-fist, fist [...]
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Will Health Care Reforms Impact Senators, Too?
February 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Will health care reform policies contained in the so-called “Economic Stimulus Package” impact members of the 111th Congress the same way they will ordinary Americans? I doubt it. Just in case, however, I decided to take a look at three of the most-senior members of the U.S. Senate and speculate as to how the new [...]
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Unusual Ideas Offered for Cinco de Mayo
April 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Several factors motivate me to offer some unusual-but-necessary ideas for celebrating Cinco de Mayo next month. For your convenience, I’ve listed those factors below: The first is an abundance of political rhetoric on the issues of illegal immigration and border security; The second is a shortage of substantial and immediate federal government action on the [...]
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Obama Organized Farrakhan’s ‘Million Man March’
April 2nd, 2008 · 44 Comments
Democrat presidential front-runner Barack Obama not only marched with Nation of Islam Founder Louis Farrakhan in the first Million Man March on Washington, D.C., but he helped organize the 1995 event! The “he marched” claim was reported in a 1995 Chicago Reader article and brought back to the attention of the blogosphere March 29 by [...]
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April Fools Day Prank Picked Up by CNET
April 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find my 2008 April Fools Day prank — concocted several weeks ago and posted early this morning at Bob McCarty Writes — mentioned in an article published at the CNET News Blog. Writer Jonathan Skilling began his piece, All the April Fools’ news that’s fit to print, with this [...]
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WordPress Tools Yield Results Like Wikipedia Scanner
August 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments
In a piece yesterday at WIRED.COM’s THREAT LEVEL blog, Kevin Paulsen predicted “a lot of sad, embarrassing secrets will emerge from this project once netizens dive into it — and we’d like to be a part of that.” So would I! The “project” Paulsen talked about is The Wikipedia Scanner, a tool which became the [...]
Tags: · CIA, Diebold, kevin paulsen, Mitt, Mitt Romney, Threat Level Blog, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Scanner, Wired.com
