Nov 29, 2009 Afghanistan Stories:   Combined Joint Task Force – 82 PAO    Michigan Guard Engineers Wrap Up Afghan Deployment   Story by Sgt. Warren Wright     Army Sgt. Daniel DeRoche, a team leader with 3rd Plt, 1431st Engrs, carries a vehicle drive shaft torn from his vehicle after striking a roadside bomb. [...]

Military interest in a PR offensive Nov 29, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Kuhner The United States Navy has betrayed its own. The names of the victims are Petty Officer Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe and Petty Officer Julio Huertas. They are Navy Seals, part of an elite commando unit, who recently captured one of [...]

Americans need to know who’s in charge of what Nov 29, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES When considering how to handle captured terrorist suspects who represent an existential threat to America, the U.S. government owes the American people the fullest measure of reassurance that decisions are made by people without any conflicts of interest. In [...]

Nominees put on hold Nov 29, 2009 By S.A. Miller Sen. Jim DeMint has locked a “hold” on President Obama’s pick to head the Transportation Security Administration over concerns the nominee would undermine safety by allowing airport security screeners to unionize, the latest in a series of appointments stymied by Republican objections that are increasingly [...]

  By Jim Hoagland Sunday, November 29, 2009   Dec. 1, 2009: My fellow Americans, This is not the speech you expected to hear. But my wordsmiths are tied in knots writing an acceptance speech for the only Nobel Peace Prize ever awarded for making speeches. So I am going to tell you how I [...]

RENEWED FOCUS ON HELMAND Obama expected to give war plan in speech By Greg Jaffe Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 29, 2009   KABUL — Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew [...]

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN   Published: November 28, 2009 What should we make of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood? Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support [...]

By PETER S. GOODMAN   Published: November 28, 2009 The Obama administration on Monday plans to announce a campaign to pressure mortgage companies to reduce payments for many more troubled homeowners, as evidence mounts that a $75 billion taxpayer-financed effort aimed at stemming foreclosures is foundering. “The banks are not doing a good enough job,” [...]

November 28, 2009   by Bill O’Reilly It took a while, we’re talking decades, but finally some American religious leaders say they are fed up. A few days ago, a faith-based group including Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York issued a scathing indictment of secularism in the USA entitled “The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of [...]

November 28, 2009   by Paul Driessen As legions of scientists, activists, journalists, bureaucrats and politicians prepare to embark for Copenhagen, a predictable barrage of climate horrors has been unleashed, to advance proposals to slash hydrocarbon use and carbon dioxide emissions, restrict economic growth, and implement global governance and taxation. CO2 has reached a new [...]