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Dave Carter is a cross country truck driver, retired military veteran, former private detective, and radio show host. As a Security Forces member and Senior Historian in the US Air Force, he deployed throughout Asia, Europe & the Middle East. Author of over 40 volumes of Air Force histories, he also accompanied aircrews on combat missions in order to record combat events from a participant's perspective. His military awards and decorations include, but are not limited to, the Air Force Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Force Achievment Medal, National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Star, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terror Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award With Valor, and Expert Marksman with Rifle and Pistol. Weapons qualifications include the M-60 machine gun, M-203 grenade launcher, Light Anti-Tank Weapon (LAW Rocket), M-16 rifle, .38 cal. and 9mm pistols, plus sundry grenades and mines. Dave spends his time these days observing the country he defended from the relative comfort of an 18 wheeler.


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Dave Carter
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Dave Carter
Hometown:
Lake Charles, LA
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Dave Carter

David, I think they reserve the seats and things to protect the general public. It has a marvelous quarantine effect.

Dave Carter

Christie, your memory is entirely too good, young lady.

Dave Carter

So, if I understand this correctly, the Obama Administration's view of Constitutional governance is to shred the 1st Amendment, disembowel the 2nd Amendment, ignore the 4th and 10th Amendments, and then take refuge behind the 5th.  That about right?  

Dave Carter

I hate to post, comment, and run,...but I'm trying desperately to get to the next Ricochet meet-up in Seattle on the 23d.  I need to make it to western Nebraska today.  I'll check in later, but in the meantime, please feel free to mingle....

Dave Carter

Stephen Hall

Barbara Kidder: You are, indeed, a modern-day Thomas Paine!

I would like to propose a higher accolade. You are a modern day Edmund Burke. · 24 minutes ago

Edited 24 minutes ago

Oh heavens no!  I'm a retired NCO, and an American trucker from the bayous of Louisiana, who has been privileged to breathe deeply the sweet air of freedom and recognizes that it doesn't come cheap.  

Dave Carter

Illiniguy: Randy Barnett wrote in an article in the Tennessee Law Review that (in the context of advocating the repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments):

...

[T]the courts allow Congress to exercise unchecked power over the national economy and everything that may affect it, limited only by the express guarantees of the Bill of Rights.... The original scheme of islands of federal powers in a sea of liberty has been transformed into a regime of islands of rights in a vast sea of national power."

Federalist 84 argued against a Bill of Rights, saying that:

"They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted... [I]t is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power."

Our liberty hangs on a slender thread. · 14 minutes ago

Hence, the observation of Benjamin Franklin, among others, that the American system of government would be unsuitable to any but a virtuous people.  

Dave Carter

Excellent distillation of events and the people behind them.  I'll be sending this post far and wide.  Thanks!  

Dave Carter

Crow's Nest

Dave Carter

Well, one is propaganda.  And the other....

(Sorry,.....couldn't resist...)

There is an uncanny mustache resemblance.....hrm.....

We may need a study to examine this.

Several hundred thousand dollars at taxpayer expense should suffice. · 43 minutes ago

There ya go!!  

Dave Carter

Crow's Nest: Hrm. What are we to make of this, then? · 18 minutes ago

soviet_medium

Well, one is propaganda.  And the other....

Dave Driving

(Sorry,...couldn't resist..)

Edited on May 16, 2013 at 8:05pm
Dave Carter

Outstanding post! Unfortunately, the only person standing in the way of a special committee on Benghazi, for example, is the Speaker of the House. We've got to stay on these people with regard to the IRS, the press intrusion, Bemghazi, the EPA's political and selective Freedom of Information Act responses, and the desperate need to defund and defang Obamacare before this same IRS implements it.

Dave Carter

What a pretentious ass...

Dave Carter

Not yet, Bob. Then again, they'd never tell me till it was too late. I'll have to call you in the next couple of days to make sure you're in the registry too. ;)

Dave Carter

I'm not a wine expert, but I thought Review #2 rocked!

Dave Carter

Now I'm homesick.

Dave Carter

My dispatcher is aware of the date. I'm hoping it will work out, but it's too soon to know for sure, since I'm depending on the vagueries of freight. I may try clicking my heels too. If it worked for Dorothy....

Dave Carter

Unequivocal, concise, passionate, accurate, and damning.   Are you sure you're a lawyer?  

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