From NBC News: Army deserter who fled to Canada sentenced to 10 months in prison By Keith Coffman, ReutersDENVER — An Army private believed to be the first female U.S. soldier to seek refuge in Canada rather than return to duty in Iraq was sentenced to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to desertion, [...]
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Crossing a Red Line
From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: U.S. Believes Syria Used Gas White House Shifts Assessment on Chemical Weapons; New Pressure to Respond By Adam Entous ABU DHABI—U.S. intelligence agencies now believe the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, the White House told Congress on Thursday, saying the agencies have “varying degrees [...]
From Around the Blogroll: Midweek Edition
This week has seen a lot of great stuff from our friends around the blogroll! Kate of the Victory Girls spotted how conservatives have highjacked the #askFLOTUS hashtag on Twitter. If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, a hashtag is like a subject category for Twitter and other social media messages, which allows the media users [...]
Sequester? President Obama won’t let a silly thing like the sequester stop him from spending more money.
From The New York Times: U.S. Opens Drone Base in Niger, Building Africa Presence By Eric Schmitt and Scott Sayare | Published: February 22, 2013 WASHINGTON — Opening a new front in the drone wars against Al Qaeda and its affiliates, President Obama announced on Friday that about 100 American troops had been sent to [...]
The Army documents the cuts expected from the sequester
From Gretchen: Mission accomplished, Obama! YOUR plan starts military decimation!Army lays out state-by-state cuts in report militarytimes.com/news/2013/02/a… — GretchenInOK (@GretchenInOK) February 20, 2013 And here is the article referenced: Army lays out state-by-state cuts in report Tom Vanden Brook – USA Today – Posted : Tuesday Feb 19, 2013 18:21:57 EST The Army estimates automatic [...]
How on earth does a decision like this get taken?
From the Marine Corps Times: New medal for drone pilots outranks Bronze Star By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Feb 13, 2013 17:47:27 EST The Pentagon is creating a new high-level military medal that will recognize drone pilots and, in a controversial twist, giving it added clout by placing it above some [...]
Another one in Basic Combat Training
The son of Robert Stacey Stacy McCain is in Basic Combat Training, having enlisted under the rigorous 18X program. The elder Mr McCain received a five-minute phone call from his son, something I know very well about from when my daughters were in Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. BCT soldiers can write [...]
Chuck Hagel and Iran
From The New York Times: Iran Said to Be Set to Hasten Uranium Enrichment By Alan Cowell | Published: January 31, 2013 LONDON — Iran has told the United Nations nuclear supervisory body that it plans to install more sophisticated equipment at its principal nuclear enrichment plant, a diplomat said on Thursday, enabling it to [...]
From around the blogroll
Karen noted one of President Obama’s jobs programs: Obama Kills Off Another Coal Plant Along With 3900 Jobs. Your Editor had thought that President Obama’s jobs proposals were supposed to help create more jobs, and not kill existing ones, but Karen pointed out that the President was keeping a promise. William Teach noted Senator Dianne [...]
