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Politics and Intelligence Just Destined to Clash!

Gen. Clapper has built a reputation as a straight shooter who speaks respectfully but directly to everyone.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - It seems unnatural to me to use the two words Politics and Intelligence in the same sentence or even the same article but use them together I must.

President Obama has named Lieutenant Gen. James Clapper USAF (Ret.) as director of National Intelligence. Gen. Clapper has had a long and distinguished career, accumulating over 43 years experience in various segments of the Intelligence community including military, civil service, the private sector, and in education.

Commemorating 1,600,000 Dead Battle Veterans

Looking back at the U.S. sacrifice in war.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I had the honor to be asked to speak. I checked my computer for deaths in all U.S. wars. It was appalling, most were under 21 years old.

It brought me back to Elegy for a Dogface Infantryman. I was barely able to read it. It brought back too many bad memories. I was earning about ONE DOLLAR per day in the mud, rain and snow.

An Open Letter to President Obama

An Open Letter to President Obama About Veterans Exposed to Environmental Hazards.

(WASHINGTON. D.C.) - Dear President Obama: We know that you may have read and been briefed about individuals exposed to environmental hazards at Camp Lejeune.

For Camp Lejeune, Senator Daniel Akaka (D, HI) estimated that as many as 500,000 veterans and dependents may have been exposed to organic solvents in the base’s water supply.

Remembering The Dead

Lives are not given in war, they are taken.

(GOLD RIVER, B.C.) - Yesterday was Memorial Day in the United States where I happen to be. Its origins lie in the Civil War and it was first proclaimed in 1868 by the Grand Army of the Republic to honor the Civil War dead.

Pride in the United States... Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!

We are proud of our heritage, proud of our constitution, proud of the brave men and women who serve in uniform, proud of each other, and proud of our flag.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - President Obama has ordered the American rescue forces in Haiti to take down their American Flags so no one would be offended.

This is not a joke, it is for real according to an article published in USA Today on March 15, 2010 and written by Alan Gomez and Oren Dorell.

Time for Repeal of Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell Policy

Repeal "don't ask, don't tell" now. It is the right thing to do.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - It is about time for an immediate repeal of the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" policy for homosexuals in the military. I only wish President Obama had fulfilled his campaign pledge by repealing the policy by executive order.

And I don't understand why the current proposal for repeal will go into effect only after the $5 million Pentagon study is received on December 1. What if the study recommends against repeal?

Watching Israel Delegitimize the U.S.

We have been seduced by those masterful at deceit to freely embrace the very forces that delegitimized us as a nation and collapsed our economy from within.

(TEMPE, Az.) - The U.S.-Israeli relationship has long been America’s Achilles heel. Our first president warned against “entangled alliances” particularly when, as here, there’s a “passionate attachment.”

Our “special relationship” with this rogue state has placed the U.S. outside the same system of international law that we now seek to impose on others, including Iran.

Is the Times Square Terrorist an Asset of Organized Crime?

Why is no one reporting that “Faisal the Fizzler” is tied to Israeli-American Leon Black and Israel-dominated organized crime syndicates dating back to the 1920s?

(TEMPE, Az.) - Faisal Sharzad—AKA The Times Square Fizzler—reportedly was trained by the “Pakistan Taliban” for a deadly deed that went horribly wrong.

Not only did he lock his keys in the car, including his apartment key, his Rube Goldberg contraption of alarm clocks, Walmart propane tanks and firecrackers failed to explode.

Health Care for Exposure to Military Environmental Hazards

Part II: Environmental Exposure Claims and Senate Bill S.3378: Good Try but Not a Winner.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Most Americans would agree that those injured in the military are entitled to health care to heal their bodies.

Report: Israel Offered to Sell South Africa Nuclear Weapons

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu revealed the existence of Israel's nuclear weapon's program to the Sunday Times in 1986.

(BETHLEHEM Ma'an) - Documents uncovered by an American academic on the close ties between Israeli and the then apartheid South Africa in the 1970s provide the first documented evidence of Israel's possession of nuclear weapons.

The secret documents reveal that the then Defense Minister, and current president, Shimon Peres responded to a request from his South African counterpart for warheads by offering them "in three sizes," the minutes of top secret meetings reveal, the British daily The Guardian wrote.