The closer it gets to Barack Obama's inauguration, the more talk we're hearing about closing Guantanamo Bay -- and what to do with the 250 supposed Islamic radicals who are still there. Last week, Kansas Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts said no way do they want the suspected terrorists shipped to the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. On Monday, Brownback issued a press release inviting Obama to tour the USDB."I would be honored to show him first hand why Fort Leavenw
Did you know that there's an office at 635 Woodland that collects reports from local police departments about suspicious activities in the metro area and analyzes them for terrorist threats? And that "suspicious activities" can include taking pictures of questionable aesthetic value, lurking around potential terrorist targets like power plants and oil refineries, or looking up subversive stuff on the 'net?
Amateur photographers who like staging photo shoots in the West Bottoms, you might wan
www.atomicbombmuseum.orgBannister Road Kansas City PlantWhen the feds sell a project, by God, they really sell a project. Representatives from the National Nuclear Security Administration and the General Services Administration dropped by City Hall yesterday to ask for the Planning and Zoning Committee's final blessing on the Kansas City Plant's move from offices on Bannister Road to a new facility in what one presenter called "the industrial heart of the 6th District." In doing so, they threw a
The idea of robots eating people didn't seem likely just two weeks ago. But that was before Cyclone Power Technologies announced on July 7 that it had finished the biomass engine system that would power the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) from Robotic Technology Inc. In short hand, that means a robot that draws its power from whatever organic material is available. EATR, which looks like Wall-E's head attached to a yellow pine wood derby racer, is a rolling scout designed for the
Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell​A story on Wired's website a week ago outlined how a Department of Defense "warning order" solicited feedback on a potential ban on the use of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook by military personnel. Such a ban seemingly would fly in the face of efforts by Lt.General William B. Caldwell, who oversees the Army's Command and General Staff College on the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, Missouri. Caldwell recently ordered every officer at
