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Nearly two weeks after 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle was murdered on San Francisco’s Pier 14 by an illegal alien and convicted felon who was released from prison earlier this year, President Barack Obama has failed to contact the victim’s family or mention her in public. Yet Obama took the time to write (and release) 46 personal letters this month to felons imprisoned for non-violent drug offenses whose sentences he has commuted. Like the 46 felons to whom Obama wrote, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez had served time for non-violent offenses, some of them drug-related. After his arrest, Lopez-Sanchez, who had been deported five...

Letter from the President regarding the commencement of operations in Libya (as provided by the White House)-March 21, 2011-Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) At approximately 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on March 19, 2011, at my direction, U.S. military forces commenced operations to assist an international effort authorized by the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council and undertaken with the support of European allies and Arab partners, to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and address the threat posed to international peace and security by the crisis in Libya.As part of the multilateral response authorized under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973,

To: Larry Wilson, Public Editor, Pasadena Star News http://www.insidesocal.com/publiceye/2009/08/the_friday_column_truths_for_t.html#comments "Mr. Wilson, I don't understand you liberals; you claim you are for total freedom of speech, yet when anyone disagrees with you, we are immediately called "wingnuts" un-American, mobs, Nazis, Astroturf and worse. My reply to you, Sir is the same as I wrote to Congressman Schiff. My letter follows: August 19, 2009 Congressman Adam Schiff 29th Congressional District 87 N. Raymond Avenue, Suite 800 Pasadena, CA 91103 Dear Congressman Schiff, My wife and I and several friends attended your “Town Hall” meeting last week. We have never before attended any...

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2006 – A mother-daughter trio has compiled a book of children’s letters to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Barbara Baldwin and her two daughters, Amber D’Amico and Heather Duff, decided a year ago to highlight children’s appreciation for men and women in uniform.   The book, “Dear Soldier,” was released Memorial Day weekend. Baldwin said she and her daughters were inspired to create the book after reading children's letters for care packages sent to troops as part of a church project.   "Because the children's letters were so compelling, we would read them aloud as the...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's leader has written to President Bush proposing "new solutions" to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian head of state to an American president in 27 years, a government spokesman said Monday. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki delivered the letter to the Swiss ambassador on Monday, ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told The Associated Press. The Swiss Embassy in Tehran houses a U.S. interests section. In the letter, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposes "new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world," spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told a news...

FORT POLK, La. (Army News Service, Feb. 1, 2006) -- "It really is Combat Logistics Patrols for Dummies," said Capt. Justin Redfern, joking about a handbook that Soldiers in his battalion put together in Iraq. Redfern and other Soldiers of Fort Polk's 142nd Corps Support Battalion have made a serious effort to distill their experiences running CLPs in Iraq into an easily accessible handbook. The book, the brainchild of battalion commander Lt. Col. Ronald Green, consists of two volumes. "Volume One can be picked up by any unit coming into theater to learn how to run a CLP," said Capt....

SACRAMENTO (AP) - In an effort to jump start his campaign to change how legislative and congressional districts are drawn, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has contributed $1.25 million of his own money to the Yes on Proposition 77 committee. The committee also received another $1.25 million from Steve Poizner, a Silicon Valley billionaire who is heading up the drive to pass the redistricting measure. Both donations were reported to the secretary of state Friday. Poizner said Tuesday that he and Schwarzenegger agreed to make the contributions at a meeting earlier this month in which the governor also asked Poizner to serve...

Peter F. Paul writes Senator Hillary Clinton Posted by Senior Editor on 2005/2/26 1:17:22 Senator Hillary Clinton U.S.Senate Washington, DC Via Hand Delivery Dear Hillary: It is with profound regret and extreme disappointment that I am forced to write this letter to you reminding you of your responsibility as a Federal elected official to comply with the laws and regulations of the United States that you have sworn to defend and protect, and as a citizen, the same laws and regulations that govern your individual conduct. As you are personally aware, in May, 2000, I was induced by your National...

McGreevey On The Defensive Governor Writes Op-Ed For USA Today Aug 17, 2004 6:30 am US/Eastern NEW YORK (AP) Gov. James E. McGreevey, speaking out for the first time since disclosing his homosexuality and an extramarital affair with a man, defended his record as governor and the effective date of his resignation in an op-ed piece that appears on USA Today's Web site. McGreevey refers only generally to the reason for his resignation, calling it personal and a decision that was not easy "but one that was in the best interests of my family and the state that I humbly...

ROME (AP) - Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist known for ruthlessly grilling her subjects, says she detests interviews but has granted one herself - to herself - because she is dying of cancer. The Milan daily Corriere della Sera published the slim volume, "Oriana Fallaci Interviews Oriana Fallaci," as a supplement to its newspaper Friday. In the work, Fallaci, 74, asks herself why she agreed to the interview. "Because death is on my back. Medicine has issued the sentence: 'Lady, you cannot get better. You won't get better,'" is the reply. Fallaci's battle with cancer began some 11 years ago....

Mysterious Scribe Writes Baghdad Web Log Fri Mar 28, 5:58 PM ET By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. - Every day, tens of thousands of people turn to the Web seeking updates from a mysterious scribe whose detailed accounts of life in besieged Baghdad have made him a cyberspace celebrity. Little is known for sure about Salam Pax, whose nom de plume means "peace" in Arabic and Latin. But his Web journal — ostensibly written from his Baghdad home — vividly criticizes the authoritarian rule of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and the U.S.-British war on...