Last year, retired U.S. Air Force officer Hal Bidlack [2] sought to unseat fellow Republican Doug Lamborn in Colorado's Fifth Congressional District. Lamborn, as Associate Editor Patrick Doyle noted in an August 2008 profile for 5280 [3], possessed impeccable conservative credentials but came under fire for his campaigning style. In the end, voters stuck with Lamborn, and Bidlack (pictured) moved on, most recently as a critic of hand-held devices used by troops in Iraq to detect bombs and other weapons, according to The New York Times [4]. The sensor devices---known individually as an ADE 651--cost between $16,500 and $60,000 each. Iraq has bought more than 1,500 of the devices, but Bidlack, a retired lieutenant colonel, claims the devices work "on the same principle as a Ouija board"---nothing more than divining rods for explosives.