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President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday. “During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released. Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at least two of the Americans killed in...

Unreal… Team Obama Leaves Americans Stranded in Libya; Military STILL on Standby Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 5:07 PM The Obama Administration won’t send the military to rescue US citizens in Libya. They don’t want to look like war-mongers. Stranded: An estimated 600 U.S. citizens are stuck on board the Maria Dolores (pictured) in Tripoli, and won’t leave until at least Friday (Daily Mail)The Obama Administration is STILL grappling with whether or not to send the military into Libya to rescue US citizens.CNN reported, via HotAir: The senior U.S. official also said the “prudent planning� for...

Of all of the characteristics one might ascribe to Susan Rice, prescience is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Surprisingly however, five years ago she said something that demonstrated a momentary clarity of vision that is staggering. In a March 2008 interview she said the following: “Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at 3:00 in the morning, and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready. They’re both not ready to have that 3 AM phone call.” If the events immediately following Benghazi showed Ambassador Rice to be a hapless marionette of the administration, the...

President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday...

Neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to the secretary of state during the 8-hour attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. At a Thursday hearing in the Senate, Republican Ted Cruz asked both Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey, "In between 9:42 p.m., Benghazi time, when the first attacks started, and 5:15 am, when Mr. Doherty and Mr. Woods lost their lives, what converations did either of you have with Secretary Clinton?" "We did not have any conversations with Secretary Clinton," Panetta responded. "And General Dempsey, the...

A transgender woman named Elizabeth Tremblay, who deserted the Marines 31 years ago when she was Pvt. Donald Tremblay, learned today she will get a discharge "with honorable conditions." ... I've posted video up top of the interview Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal reporter Daryn Slover conducted with Tremblay before she learned she would get her honorable discharge.

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The young serviceman convicted of plotting a massacre of his fellow soldiers near Fort Hood in Texas received dual consecutive life sentences today. Naser Jason Abdo, 22, sat in a Texas court today in a bizarre mask made of white cloth around his mouth and a black mesh covering over his hair and face, a Department of Justice official told ABC News. The life sentences were handed down for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and for possession of a weapon in furtherance of a federal crime. Abdo got another 60 years for the attempted murder of "officers...

WACO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge will try again to sentence an AWOL soldier convicted of planning to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood soldiers. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo faces up to life in prison. He has said he will represent himself in court at his Friday sentencing in Waco. The original hearing set for Thursday afternoon was postponed after Abdo requested more time to prepare. The 22-year-old Abdo said during an earlier hearing that he and his attorneys weren't communicating effectively. He was convicted in May on six federal charges, including attempting to use...

It's no secret that our federal government has been AWOL for decades in doing their job of defending our nation from illegal alien invaders. Every elected official (federal, state and local) raises his or her hand and swears to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. This includes Article 4, Section 4, which clearly states that our government, "shall guarantee to every state in this Union a Republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion." Increasingly documented incidences of homicide, rape, property theft, serious infectious diseases, drug running, gang violence, human trafficking, terrorism, stolen jobs and...

With Hurricane Irene preparing to strike the United States, I have a few questions: 1)Why is President Obama still in Martha's Vineyard as of 12:17 EST? Was this not the same Man who was very critical of the government response in the aftermath of Katrina and boosted if he was in charge, the response would have been better? Why is he not in Washington leading all preparation efforts. 2)Where are his fellow Democrats like Harry Reid, Dick Durban and the rest of the Congressional Bunch, who was also very critical in the aftermath of Katrina? Why have they not return...

Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, after raising suspicions at a Killeen, Texas, gun shop where he purchased six pounds of gunpowder and several boxes of shotgun shells, was in police custody in Killeen on Thursday, accused of plotting to kill fellow soldiers in a frightening reprise of the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood. Abdo, 21, who grew up in Garland outside of Dallas, was close to pulling off a "terror plot" in which the intended target was troops based at Fort Hood, said Killeen Police Chief Dennis Baldwin. "We would probably be here today giving you a different briefing had...

Economy: As the president works on his golf game, the economy is coming apart again. Housing is taking another leg down, job gains seem to be tailing off and a fiscal iceberg lies just ahead. Will someone sound the alarm? President Obama has busied himself with many things lately — angering longtime allies such as Israel, plunging us into an open-ended conflict in Libya without congressional approval, spending quality face-time with the British royals, golfing on Memorial Day. On Wednesday, he even found time to declare June "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Month." We know the president is busy, but...

Dems show no signs of returningBY KIRSTEN GIBSON | City Editor Purdue Exponent Posted: Friday, March 25, 2011 10:00 am It's officially been a month since the Indiana House Democrats left the state and there is still no end in sight. Rep. Randy Truitt, R-West Lafayette, said the Republicans weren't sure when the Democrats were coming back, or even if they would come back. The Democrats originally left to deny the Republicans a quorum. This prevented voting on an anti-union bill but, after the bill was thrown out, their stay continued: This time, for voucher bills as well as amendments...

There was a time when an American president at least pretended to care when he sent American women and American men in harm’s way. Not so in this new golden age of celestial choirs. In this our Mess-iah utopia, an American plane crashes in a hostile land, crew lives in danger, but President Who Gives A Crap? is too busy playing the “grand tourist” (AP’s words) and looking out at “brilliant beaches” to, well, give a crap.

Obama Urged to Seize Reins as Crises Pile Up A conflict approaching civil war in Libya. An end-times tsunami in Japan. A Congress that can't reach a budget. And ... gender inequality? The topic of President Obama's weekend radio address has raised some eyebrows, as Obama has met mounting crises with the same restraint and cool that characterized his slow-and-steady campaign for president. To some critics, the tone set by the White House in light of recent upheaval may hurt the president's public image. Amid chaos around the world and on Capitol Hill, Obama's Saturday radio address was devoted to...

Capitol Chaos: Senate Dems Glad to be HomeStory Created: Mar 11, 2011 WISCONSIN - For the first time in three weeks, Today's TMJ4 was able to interview a Senate Democrat who was actually in Wisconsin at the time. "I'm really excited to be home," says Senator Lena Taylor. Taylor is among the Democrats who have come back to Wisconsin after being out of state for three weeks trying to slow down the legislative process on Governor Walker's budget repair bill. "I think people are geared up and ready to speak to the recalls and speak to January 2012." **SNIP** Senator...

GOP imposes $100 fines on Wis.'s AWOL DemocratsBy Scott Bauer, Associated Press – 17 mins ago MADISON, Wis. – Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday to fine the chamber's AWOL Democrats $100 for each day they miss of the legislative session, and the governor said the GOP remains committed to his plan to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights. Gov. Scott Walker met with GOP senators in a closed-door meeting a day after releasing details about concessions he's offered to Democrats, saying he had the backing of his fellow Republicans. "They're firm," Walker said after dashing...

Walker: It Only Takes One Democrat Doing His Job to Help WisconsinPublished February 27, 2011 FoxNews.com It only takes one state senator to stand up and do his job to balance the budget and avoid a $165 million loss in savings to the state, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Sunday, challenging any of the 14 Democratic senators who fled the state more than a week ago to return to vote on a budget. Democrats "need to come back and do what they were elected to do. They don't have to vote for it, they don't have to support it," Walker...

WI Senate Dems still AWOL after Assembly passes budget billGov. says layoffs will come next week if bill isn't passed. Bill Kissinger, Judy Wang, WGN-TV 1:08 p.m. CST, February 25, 2011 MADISON, Wisc. — The Wisconsin state Assembly has passed a budget bill that strips state workers of their union bargaining power, but it's still not a done deal. Republicans passed the measure in Madison early Friday morning over loud protests from opponents. But the bill has hit a roadblock in the state Senate because 14 democrats fled the state to stall the vote. **SNIP** "Without the labor movement, what...

Some senators left Wisconsin with little more than the clothes on their backs. Others came to Illinois equipped with an Urban Essentials pack: clothes, toiletries, cell phones, smart phones

Troopers visit Sen. Miller's home "Dispatched by state Senate leadership Friday, Senate sergeant-at-arms Ted Blazel and an officer from the Wisconsin State Patrol knock on the door at the Monona home of Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller in an attempt to bring him into the Capitol and obtain a quorum." Click Link to see Video: http://www.wiscnews.com/vmix_32386d12-3be9-11e0-8d03-001cc4c002e0.html Note: Lone protester- "This is not what Democracy looks like"

AWOL Wisconsin Democrat calls CNN with list of demandsBy Mary Katharine Ham - The Daily Caller Updated: 4:31 PM 02/17/2011 State Senator Mark Miller, a member of the missing band of Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers who fled Madison Thursday to avoid a vote on a budget bill, called into CNN with the group’s list of demands for Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Miller, a state senator since 2004, would not disclose where he and his colleagues were hiding out, saying only “we are in what we consider a secure location outside the capital. We are not all in one place at this...

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Labor: Unionized Wisconsin teachers should be ashamed of their response to legislation that would end their privilege to bargain collectively. And if such lousy behavior continues, they should be relieved of their duties. The Wisconsin government is in a financial hole, operating with a $137 million deficit for the current fiscal year ending June 30. Its future is filled with bigger deficits, projected to be as large as $3.6 billion. One way to cut into the shortfall is to end the public employee unions' collective bargaining privilege that has landed them the generous salaries and benefits the taxpayers are struggling...

01-01-2011 21:38 N. Korean soldiers leave barracks en masse looking for food An increasing number of North Korean soldiers are showing “AWOL” behaviors to avoid intense physical training and look for food, the local daily, Chosun Ilbo, said Saturday, sourcing it to RFA. AWOL is a military acronym for "absence without leave." “It’s hard to punish them because there are too many of such soldiers,” an unnamed North Korean informant, told RFA in the report. Some of the soldiers display “on-off’ AWOL behaviors, for example, leaving the barracks in the morning looking for food and coming back in the evening....

Not that Obama doesn't appreciate the sacrifices of veterans. He absolutely does. Just ask the Indonesians. He was in Jakarta for their Heroes Day this week to honor their veterans "who have sacrificed on behalf of this great country." "This great country," of course, being Indonesia. "When my stepfather was a boy, he watched his own father and older brother leave home to fight and die in the struggle for Indonesian independence," Obama told the audience. And the White House wonders why so many people think there is something foreign about this guy.

SAN ANTONIO -- A young San Antonio mother who is considered a deserter by the U.S. Army says she had no idea that was her status. Sabrina Torres, 26, was arrested earlier this week and booked at the Bexar County Jail. Her mother, Cindi Mayen, told KENS 5 that Torres signed up for the Army in 2003 when she was 18 years old. But then she found out she was pregnant. Mayen said the recruiting officer told them Torres would be discharged. But now, the Army says Torres never followed the proper procedures and was never discharged. "Why are they...

The 17 reported AWOL Afghan pilots at Lackland AFB's English Language Institute has now ballooned to 46. A network known as "Big Mexican Women," or BMW's are believed to have helped the men escape to Canada or taught them how to live under-the-radar in the U.S. One Big Mexican Woman is in custody. The odd thing is, there is little reporting on this story, with the exception of Fox New.

loose network of Mexican-American women, some of whom may be illegal immigrants, have been responsible for helping numerous Afghan military deserters go AWOL from an Air Force Base in Texas, FoxNews.com has learned. Many of the Afghans, with the women's assistance, have made their way to Canada; the whereabouts of others remain unknown. Some of the men have been schooled by the women in how to move around the U.S. without any documentation. The Afghan deserters refer to the women as "BMWs" — Big Mexican Women — and they often are the first step in the Afghans' journey from Lackland...

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- A be-on-the-lookout alert issued last month for 17 Afghan military men who walked away from an Air Force base in Texas has turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg. No fewer than 46 members of the Afghan military have gone absent without leave from the Defense Language Institute’s English Language Center at Lackland Air Force Base in recent years, FoxNews.com has learned. From a series of interviews with civilians and military personnel conducted over the course of a week, and according to documents obtained from a variety of sources, FoxNews.com has...

President [Barry Hussein Soetoro] gave the White House press corps the slip last night. He’s done it again. How many times is this president going to give the White house press corps the slip before the people of the United States realize that there is a problem? What other president in the history of the United States of America has ever had to disappear with whereabouts unknown? (see previous post) If one remembers, and I do, this is supposed to be the most ethical, transparent, open presidential administration in the history of the United States of America. So why does...

At least 11 of the 17 members of the Afghan military who went AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas and are considered deserters by their nation have turned up in the exact place you'd expect to find them in the year 2010. They're on Facebook.

While everyone else was beguiled by the BP show trials, the always astute K.T. McFarland was posing a few intriguing questions about the AWOL Afghani soldiers who have evaporated someplace in the United States. 1. Why are we just hearing about this situation now, when some of the people on the list have been missing for 2 years? And when the most recent person to go missing was 6 months ago. Has something changed? What’s happened to make us — all of a sudden — become more alert? 2. Was there a previous notice about this missing men? The Be-on-the-Lookout...

uh oh seems to be an understatement here... Seems some Afghanistan "pals", training to become pilots, were here in the US to learn English. All, including both officers and enlisted men, have security security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations. The Afghans were attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DLI program teaches English to military pilot candidates and other air force prospects from foreign countries allied with the U.S. "I can confirm that 17 have gone missing from the Defense Language Institute," said Gary Emery, Chief of Public Affairs,...

The following 17 Afghan military members have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas and are being sought in a nationwide alert in the U.S. Citizens are asked to be on the look out for any of the following: Mohammad Mo. Mohammad, born 8/8/1977 (Carries decapitating knife at all times.) Mohammad M. "C-4" Mohammad, born 9/3/1982 (Drives late model Mercedes with burning fuse. Mohammad Muhammad Mohammad, born 12/4/1966 (Has box cutter collection.) M.M. Mohammad, born 8/27/1982 (Has tattoo of woman scantily clad in a head-to-toe burqa on right arm.) Mohammad M. Mohammad, Jr. 5/5/1978 (Had tattoo of "MOM"...

What kind of zoo is B. Hussein Obama running? I honestly have no confidence in the CIA, DOD, NCIS, NSA, Treasury and I am tossing in the political wing of the FBI doing Holder's bidding, as Obama just imported 17 Afghani Taleeban al Qaeda to America, via the United States Air Force into Texas, and after giving them complete high level security access..........Obama lost them. Just like Jamie Gorelick lost the 9 11 terrorits. Just like Eric Holder "lost" Faisal Shahzad in letting me enter an international airport after they knew he was armed with an assault rifle. The worst...

FOX News is reporting that 17 Afghan military members are AWOL from a training base in Texas. This would be an interesting story, except for one thing: They didn’t just go AWOL. They’ve been missing for quite awhile, and we are now JUST getting around to hearing about it. This is further proof that our military, bloated like a bureaucratic pig, is only trying to cover its proverbial rear while it continues to exhibit incompetence. "I can confirm that 17 have gone missing from the Defense Language Institute," said Gary Emery, Chief of Public Affairs, 37th Training Wing, at Lackland...

Via twitter - BREAKING CNN: 2 people are in custody after trying to get onto MacDill Air Force Base, the home of U.S. Central Command: Air Force spokeswoman

Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Has anybody heard of them coming to Alvin Greene's defense? There's a political lynching going on right in front of the nation's eyes. Are Sharpton & Jackson MIA?

DULLES, Va. -- It's pretty common to hear about an airline losing your luggage, but what about your dog? A Norwegian military dog is missing on the grounds of Dulles International Airport. "The airline called me to the gate and told me my dog had escaped," Gunn Anita Fossli, a platoon commander for the Norwegian Armed Forces Military Police, tells WTOP. The 20-month-old Doberman was crated, but somehow ended up outside of the travel box and on the tarmac of an Iberian Airlines flight Wednesday night. Airport personnel were unable to capture Qondor (pronounced condor) and then the fog rolled...

President Barack Obama quietly breached years of protocol on Saturday morning by leaving the White House without the press with him. About two hours before reporters were supposed to be in position to leave with the president, Obama left the grounds of the White House. Members of the press were told he was attending one of his daughter's soccer games in northwest Washington, D.C. The White House press corps traditionally travels with the president anywhere he goes, inside and outside the country, to report on the president's activities for the benefit of informing the public and for historical record.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama quietly breached years of protocol on Saturday morning by leaving the White House without the press with him.

Following months of heated public debate and aggressive closed-door negotiations, Congress finally cast a historic vote on healthcare late Sunday evening. It was truly a sad weekend on the House floor as we witnessed further dismantling of the Constitution, disregard of the will of the people, explosive expansion of the reach of government, unprecedented corporate favoritism, and the impending end of quality healthcare as we know it. Those in favor of this bill touted their good intentions of ensuring quality healthcare for all Americans, as if those of us against the bill are against good medical care. They cite fanciful...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Nov. 20, 2009) — A Missouri National Guardsman in training to become a military truck driver faces charges of making a terrorist threat in a school near Whiteman Air Force Base. According to court records, the trainee, Pfc. Michael John Frederick, 19, went into a Sedalia high school during a Saturday evening event and told the superintendent that the Army had told him to warn area schools that escaped prisoners might be trying to kidnap students. Frederick was wearing his military uniform when he made his warning about escaped inmates. However, there were no escaped inmates...

Reporting from Ft. Hood, Texas - President Obama is slated to speak at a memorial service today at this grieving Army base, where a military psychiatrist is accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage. The service, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. local time, will be a traditional military affair, with a sermon, a roll call of the dead and a rifle volley. About 3,000 spectators, as well as the families of the 12 soldiers and one civilian killed, are expected to attend. The tribute comes amid new questions about whether the shooting, in which dozens were also...

Yesterday, 13 of our own troops were killed and 30 others were injured in Fort Hood, Texas at a secure U.S. Army base and the president is nowhere to be seen. This doesn't even surprise us, but for the people who still support Obama, you now further understand why we call you 'idiots.' Signs of Trinity church, Black Liberation Theology, Bill Ayers and Marxist professors? Hmmm.... After all, President Obama seemed to make it to Manhattan last month when Goldman Sachs, his number one Wall Street campaign contributor along with several other shadow banking firms attended an expensive DNC fundraiser...

Mayor Gavin Newsom was spotted this morning at City Hall, but there's still no word on his mysterious disappearance. He arrived at his office at about 9:30 a.m., walking past members of the media who were hoping he'd comment on his absence. No such luck. "The mayor is back, and he's busy conducting meetings in his office in City Hall right now," said his spokesman, Nathan Ballard. Newsom is meeting with staff and plans to meet with both sides of the hotel workers' dispute sometime today, Ballard said. He is not planning to make any public appearances. "He's been kept...