What's Better And Worse In The News?

What's Better With The Navy Seals?
  The parents of the 17 Seals and other  special-ops people who were killed in the Chinook as it attempted to land in Afghanistan several years ago are asking for an investigation. Cindy Sheehan caught the fancy of the liberal press because of Bush's military policies ( which, strangely, Obama has followed during his presidency). But this endeavor is not getting the liberal media's attention, just as the Benghazi Alamo didn't.
Seals are at the tip of the spear, and we, the people, need to protect them. The best Seal book I have read is about that event in Afghanistan. It covers what happened before the Chinook came in balls-the-wall to rescue an ambushed small Seal team and what happened when a Taliban fired an missile right up the ramp of the Chinook as it was opening to drop off the rescuers. This book is "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell.
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What's Better With Benghazi?
A congressman from Virginia has written Speaker John Boehner asking for the creation of a bipartisan select committee on Benghazi. Frank West's suggestion seems to make a lot of sense.
------------------------------------------------------------------------What's Better In Afghanistan?                                                           The president of Afghanistan is offering the U.S. either 9 bases as ours or just access to 9 bases out of the 180 bases the coalition built there.
At least, it appears Karzi wants our continued presence there. One of the administration's goals in a continued presence in Afghanistan is to take out high profile militant targets. We can only hope that Obama will start using the Seals again instead of only using drones. Seals are very good at shooting only the targeted people and those who resist. Plus, they  gather the all-important intelligence so we have a better idea of what is going on. Even if the one-man missile from a drone is perfected, it does not gather the papers, telephones, and computers belonging to the target. Our present missles are killing innocents and destroying homes which just increases the hostility toward us by the Afghan people. It is speculated that Karzi is attempting to get the goodwill of America as he introduces his candidate for the up-coming presidential election.
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What's Better With Gay Marriages in Minnesota?
Minnesota's House has just passed a gay marriage bill. It is expected to pass the Senatae and Governor Mark Dayton says he will sign it. This will make the twelfth state to legalize gay marriage. If you thought "Divorce Court" was interesting, you haven't seen anything yet!
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What's Worse In Russia?
An anti-corruption blogger, very well know in Russia, has announced that he will run for president in 2017. Putin will not allowed that to happen as the Russian people could spiral out of his control because of their desire to end the corruption in Putin's government and among his many friends. Therefore, Putin just had this blogger, Alexel Navalny, arrested on trumped-up charges of stealing timber years ago. Navalny fully expects to be found guilty which will make him ineligible to run for president. We should have listened to General Patton and destroyed the Russian Communist Party when only we had the atomic bomb.
Peter Nickerson, Gainesville, Florida  352-359-0850
Sources: The Wall Street Journal, The Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts
Herman Cain, Rush Limbaugh, Chip Morrison, Andy Dean and reading widely.