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As the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s unprecedented resignation approaches, Americans would do well to re-examine the Watergate scandal before the Washington Post’sjournalistic fraud becomes inalterably ossified as historical fact. Watergate involved a massive cover-up, to be sure, but it was a campaign of concealment by Washington’s paper of record, not by the Nixon administration, the true victim of Watergate. We should recall that what had originally appeared in the aftermath of the arrests to have been a “rogue” burglary caper, bungled by bit players, eventually morphed, per sensational Post reporting, into a deliberately planned campaign scheme to influence an...

WOW - Don't know who was right and wrong but one helluva sucker punch

The newly retired commander of Army forces in the Pacific says the Obama administration’s “rush to repeal” the ban on openly gay men and women serving in the military “is moving way too fast” and risks damaging the armed forces’ fighting ability. Lt. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon, who retired May 1 after 35 years in the Army, told The Washington Times that he is concerned that repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy will cause problems with morale and mean the military will be less ready and able to fight. “There’s no question in my mind that this is...

The U.S. Army will not discipline a general who publicly urged troops to speak out against the proposed repeal of the military’s policy against gays serving openly. Lieutenant General Benjamin R. Mixon will not be formally reprimanded, Army Secretary John McHugh said today. “We consider the matter closed as of today,” McHugh told reporters. Mixon, of Fort Shafter, Hawaii, wrote a letter to the editor of Stars and Stripes newspaper saying he didn’t believe that most military personnel would support repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and he called on troops and their families who agree to...

Legislation (H.R. 1283) has been introduced in the 111th Congress to repeal the 1993 statute regarding homosexuals in the military, Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C., which is frequently mislabeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” In anticipation of this action, a number of retired flag and general officers decided that it would be important to show support for this law, which was written to protect unit cohesion and morale in our military. Congress approved the statute in 1993 with bipartisan, veto-proof majorities in both houses, and federal courts have upheld it as constitutional several times. We believe firmly that this law deserves...

Army General Admonished for Advocating for Gay Ban By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 25, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military's top uniformed officer has publicly admonished a three-star Army general for urging troops to speak out against allowing gays to serve openly. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that Lt. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, who heads Army forces for U.S. Pacific Command, was wrong to call on troops and their families to fight a repeal of the military's ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy. Mullen said if uniformed officers disagree with President Barack Obama's call...

The man who gunned down four Oakland police officers had robbed and raped two women at gunpoint earlier the same day as they set up a food cart in East Oakland, police said Monday. *** Police said earlier that Mixon was tied through DNA to the Feb. 5 rape of a 12-year-old girl in the East Oakland neighborhood where Mixon lived and where the officers were shot to death. The department was notified of the genetic match in that case the day before the killings. On Monday, investigators said a state laboratory had confirmed that Mixon's DNA matched that of...

The March 21 murder of four Oakland police officers by Lovelle Mixon, a convicted felon wanted for a recent parole violation, epitomizes the futility of “gun control,” or the banning and restricting of gun ownership for law-abiding adults. Using the officers’ tragic deaths to further an unrelated agenda — stripping away the Second Amendment rights of honorable citizens — is both harmful and distracting. Mixon was not an anomaly. Felons commit over 90 percent of murders, with the remainder carried out primarily by juveniles and the mentally unbalanced. The United States already has laws forbidding all three groups from owning...

“He’s nice, he’s kind, he’s sweet . . .” So said Enjoli Mixon of her brother Lovelle, the killer of four Oakland police officers. “We’re all shocked by this,” she told reporters. She shouldn’t be. Nor should anyone who knew Lovelle Mixon be at all surprised that he met his violent end on March 21. As is often the case in such violent crimes, many have called the murders “senseless.” They were actually anything but senseless. Indeed, but for the scale of the carnage Mixon inflicted before he died, it was an utterly predictable culmination to an utterly misspent life....

We talked yesterday about the utter uselessness of "gun control" in preventing a killer's shooting rampage. We further broke down how the media presented misinformation about guns. Here's more, presented as straight news: Mixon, who police believe was hiding in a closet in a back bedroom, began firing through the door and wall with a military assault rifle, sources said. Not unless it was designed to be capable of fully automatic fire he didn't. And then we have Chip Johnson of The San Francisco Chronicle, typifying the type of blood dance that always accompanies calls to disarm you and me:...

Oakland -- About 60 people marched and rallied in Oakland tonight to condemn the police and honor Lovelle Mixon, who was killed by Oakland police after he fatally shot four officers Saturday. "OPD you can't hide - we charge you with genocide," chanted the demonstrators as they marched along MacArthur Blvd., near the intersection with 74th Avenue where Mixon, 26, a fugitive parolee, gunned down two motorcycle officers who had pulled him over in a traffic stop. He then killed two more officers who had tried to capture him where he was hiding in sister's apartment nearby. The protest was...

SAN FRANCISCO – The parolee who killed three Oakland police officers and left a fourth brain-dead over the weekend had been tentatively linked by DNA evidence to a rape the day before the shootings, authorities said. Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason confirmed a report on the San Francisco Chronicle's Web site on Monday night that DNA from an unsolved rape in Oakland in February was a probable match to that of 26-year-old Lovelle Mixon. Investigators got that information Friday, the day before Mixon opened fire on the officers following a routine traffic stop. Mixon is the primary suspect in the...

4 cops shot, suspect dead after Calif. traffic stop Police say suspect behind two separate shootings involving officers OAKLAND, Calif. - Four officers were in critical condition and a suspect dead on Saturday after gunfire at a traffic stop led to a massive manhunt that ended in a shootout, police said. Two officers were shot in the first incident just after 1 p.m. after they stopped the suspect's vehicle in east Oakland, said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason. The suspect fled the scene on foot into a nearby neighborhood, police said, leading to an intense manhunt by dozens of Oakland...

I thought that this item, from last month, was appropriate now, with the MSM making a really big deal over General Petraeus' recent mention of the possibility of reducing troop levels by early '08 - which is being used in advance attacks on his expected good September Report. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Surge progress may lead to troop reductions in northern Iraq, general says 15 July 07 by John J. Kruzel American Forces Press Service BAGHDAD — Now at full strength, the U.S. troop surge in Iraq is showing “definitive progress”...

Eunice Mixon of Tifton is the kind of Democrat even Republicans love. She’s not really a Democrat, though. As U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) pointed out, she represents the “South Georgia Party.” “Politics,” said Miss Eunice, “is a way to decide who gets what, and I wanted my area to get as much of the ‘what’ as we could … and good government.” To suggest that Miss Eunice is not really a Democrat is editorial exaggeration of the highest order. Maybe even outright lyin’. “She’ll die a Democrat, but she’ll work with anybody,” clarified Boston City Councilman Mark Saunders. He...

Accused Terrorist Is Big GOP Donor February 19, 2007 1:51 PM Justin Rood Reports: Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari gave $15,250 to the NRCC since 2002, according to FEC records published on the Web site opensecrets.org. On Friday, Alishtari pled not guilty to funding terrorism and other crimes, including financial fraud. The NRCC is the main political group dedicated to helping the Republican party win seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reached Monday morning for comment, an NRCC spokeswoman declined to discuss the matter on the record. The indictment against Alishtari unsealed in Manhattan federal court Friday charges him...

(snip) ...The authorities say that Ms. Mixon drove her old gray Toyota Camry — with her three children inside — past traffic barricades and past the law enforcement officials who had blocked off roadways near DeSoto County's civic center in Southavenwhile President Bush gave a speech inside. Then, with the police, sheriff's deputies and Secret Service agents in pursuit, she drove on, the authorities say, finally crashing the car into the side of the civic center. No one was hurt. A three-foot wide panel of bricks in the side of the civic center was crushed. Mr. Bush was whisked away,...