Archive for July, 2011
Soldiers Ordered Not To Shoot Taliban As They Plant Mines Because It Would Agitate Locals (7)
Daily Mail UK: Soldiers were ordered not to open fire on Taliban fighters planting mines in case they disturb local people, it has been claimed. U.S. military chiefs ordered troops to exercise ‘courageous constraint’ and even warned them they could be charged with murder if they shot any Taliban without permission from above. The claims [...]
Boehner, Cantor In Secret Debt Meeting With Obama Yesterday (1)
Politico: President Barack Obama and the two top House Republican leaders held an unannounced meeting at the White House Sunday, trying to get debt talks back on track with just two weeks left before the threat of default. Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor were both part of the discussions which come even [...]
Valor Awards Mount Up For Little-Known Battle (2)
Marine Corps Times: GARMSER DISTRICT, Afghanistan — Just a few weeks into a short-notice deployment to southwestern Afghanistan, Capt. Byron Owen and the Marines in his force reconnaissance platoon got an urgent mission: Go to Shewan. Their job was to take back a Farah province village that an infantry platoon with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, [...]
Debt Ceiling Debate Moves From White House To Congress, Prospects Uncertain (0)
FoxNews: The debate over the debt ceiling moves Monday from the backrooms of the White House to the halls of Congress, as the House and Senate take up dueling measures to grapple with the problem. Though the White House says the president still wants a “big” deficit-reduction deal linked to a debt-ceiling increase, a solid [...]
Rand Corp Issues Disturbing Army-Commissioned Report On “Stablility Police Force For The United States” (40)
Related Video: Obama Creates Army Hidden In Health Care Bill Excerpted from Extrano’s Alley, a gun blog: The Rand Corporation has released a study on the feasibility of an internal “security police force for the United States.” That is certainly an ominous thought. It would take a substantial investment in men and materiel to keep [...]
Petraeus Hands Over Command Of Afghanistan To Marine (0)
CSMonitor US Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Afghanistan, officially relinquished command of international forces here to US Marine Gen. John Allen in a ceremony in Kabul on Monday. Unlike his departure from Iraq, General Petraeus leaves his successor a war that is far from over. War and Conflict Government and Politics Afghanistan [...]
Al Sharpton To Take Over Keith Olbermann’s Time Slot On Media Matters/MSNBC? (4)
MediaBistro: Cenk Uygur was thrust onto the MSNBC schedule in January, when Keith Olbermann‘s departure set in motion several host changes on the progressive channel’s lineup. Now TVNewser hears Uygur may be moved out of the 6pm hour, possibly to be replaced by Al Sharpton. When the host changes happened earlier this year, the 6pm [...]
