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The N.C. Air National Guard, which is based at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, current flies eight C-130Hs. Under a new Air Force planning document, the unit would convert to C-17s…
Noemie Emery offers interesting observations within a Washington Examiner column about women in the highest ranks of American politics. Poor Hillary. 2008 was her year and she blew it, and…
Walter Williams‘ latest column posted at Human Events questions restrictive rules of engagement for American troops in the Middle East. War is nasty, brutal and costly. In our latest wars,…
My latest column for Carolina Journal: RALEIGH — It’s a decision that on its face seems very strange: The Air Force wants to stop basing transport planes at Pope Field,…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on a new state audit that reveals N.C. Medicaid management abuses, including $1.6 million in excessive pay, nepotism, lax oversight, and failure to…
I’ll be writing a column on this for Carolina Journal, but for now here’s a quick summary on the latest U.S. Air Force C-130 fleet plan, which was just presented…
One problem with reforming government are permanently entrenched bureaucracies, seeking ever more dollars to do things the way they’ve always been done. And that’s especially true in the military. With…
Lockheed Martin is going to develop a civilian version of its C-130J military cargo plane. Don’t laugh, the company sold over 100 commercial versions of earlier-generation C-130s. And anything that…
The Pentagon is again pushing for another round of base closings. The North Carolina Air National Guard is based out at the airport and flies C-130s. The Air Force isn’t…
If you are a dog lover, you will be moved to tears by this story about military dogs in general, and Azza in particular. It’s been almost seven months since…
The lefty hand-wringers at N.C. Policy Watch are exorcized over the fact that waiters and waitresses get only a portion of the minimum wage in actual pay. [L]abor advocates use…
Read it and weep. Here are your federal tax dollars at work. After a $1 billion investment that produced “negligible” value, the Air Force is formally scrapping a next-generation logistics…