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The Benghazi Betrayal — Panetta Had Time for Rescue but “Stood Down” Instead

Friday, May 17th, 2013

The Benghazi Four were betrayed. They called for help on September 11 but were left to die instead. Since then, Obama’s craven political appointees have tried to cover their backsides, and his, by lying about the time and resources needed to respond.

In the 3-minute May 11 clip below, former Navy Seal Christopher Mark Heben and Col. David Hunt (Ret.) explain how Alert-30 and Alert-60 forces could have been on-site in Benghazi within about 3 hours. Those forces train for missions like Bengh...

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Miss water-boarding-obtained intel and Bush yet?

Monday, April 29th, 2013

Bush, 9/11, Obama, Boston and the Axis of Evil

It’s easy to forget the fear that gripped America in the aftermath of al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. soil. It’s even easier to take for granted the homeland peace that followed until the Islamist-inspired  Tsarnaev Brothers & Co. bombings in Boston on the Ides of April, 2013. And it’s even easier than that to not remember what made the peace possible, especially if your political party opposed nearly every...

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Remember

Saturday, September 10th, 2011


We got the call from my step-daughter early that day; we didn't have hours, days or weeks of worry.  She was a lovely and quite intelligent young woman, only 25, who worked in lower Manhattan, not all that far from the WTC,  and lived in Brooklyn.  She was okay.  Her building had been evacuated and she was going to have to walk back to Brooklyn that day.  Our younger daughter was in 6th grade and the school called because they were concerned about her.  She seemed...

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