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The Benghazi scandal shows Obama Administration’s true colors–and it shouldn’t be supported by any American

11 May, 2013 (12:19) | GWOT, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

It’s taken several months, but now that the 2012 elections are well over and in the rearview mirror, the media can’t avoid covering the scandalous actions the Obama Administration has taken with regard to the September 11, 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi. Not that they didn’t try to avoid it, but the [...]

Still more that we don’t know than do about the Boston bombing “suspect”

21 April, 2013 (14:17) | Crime & Punishment, GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames

With the capture of the second bomber we are now in a position to be far more deliberate and thorough in moving the investigation forward. We know a lot more now than we did just 3 days ago but there’s more we need. There’s also some stuff we don’t need. This may sound premature but [...]

Ricin-laced letter sent to Senator, to White House. Arrest made in Mississippi.

17 April, 2013 (23:00) | Crime & Punishment, GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames

A letter that was sent to Senator Wicker (R-MS) tested positive for ricin, an extremely powerful poison. The alert was raised when the letter went through the off-site mail handling facility that checks each and every letter and package destined for Congress. A similar letter mailed to President Obama has been reported, as well. The [...]

Boston Marathon bombing investigation continues–I suggest patience.

16 April, 2013 (17:59) | Crime & Punishment, GWOT, The Media | By: ricjames

Yesterday, April 15, 2013, on the 117th running of the Boston Marathon some person or persons currently unknown set and detonated 2 bombs long the final stretch of the race course. The first exploded literally at the finish line, the second roughly 1 block from the finish along the course on Boylston Street. At the [...]

Never forget… 11 years since 9-11

11 September, 2012 (13:00) | GWOT, History, Human Interest | By: ricjames

Today I paused with my fellow Americans to recall the attacks 11 years ago that changed things so much. Anger may have dropped to a simmer and pain faded to the ache of an old injury, but remember I do. I offer prayers for our fallen countrymen and women, their families left behind, the members [...]

Lockerbie bomber dies, reports say.

20 May, 2012 (11:31) | Aviation, Crime & Punishment, GWOT | By: ricjames

Back in 2009 the UK released Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a man convicted of carrying out the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. They did so, they said, because al-Megrahi had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and only had 3 months to live. At the time, there were people none too happy [...]

Drone over Chicago? My take: it’s a fake.

19 May, 2012 (08:01) | GWOT, Military, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

This week saw a very sudden uptick in concern by several American citizens and groups over the notion that the US Government is using drone aircraft over US soil. This was most notably seen in a YouTube video where a military-grade, apparently Predator-class drone was spotted and taped over Elgin, IL just outside of Chicago [...]

Obama’s so-called “decision” to take out Bin Laden was apparently made by someone else.

28 April, 2012 (10:06) | 2012 Elections, GWOT, Military, Politics | By: ricjames

I’ve never understood the crowing that Obama and his supporters engage in over the fact that Osama Bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEALs during Obama’s administration. The direction to track Bin Laden, the funding and supplying of the teams in that mission, the priority set on him were all matters undertaken by the [...]

On keeping perspective in wartime and shutting mouths

14 January, 2012 (08:30) | GWOT, Military, Politics | By: ricjames

In the past few days a video has surfaced of some of our Marines in Afghanistan taking a moment to offer their opinion of the several Taliban fighters they’d just killed, expressed rather eloquently in the act of urinating on their corpses. In this current world of hyper-sensitivity to anything that might appear the slightest [...]

Are iris scanners the answer to security? And would we permit them?

29 May, 2011 (12:08) | GWOT, Immigration, Politics, Science, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

How far would you go to capture a known terrorist? To apprehend an escaped killer? To detain a man who raped a child? To catch a woman who, through fraudulent business practice wrecked a major financial institution, causing millions to become near destitute over night? If someone asked you to strap on a firearm and [...]