FRENCH SOLDIER STABBED IN THE THROAT OUTSIDE OF PARIS *

MILITARY SPOX SAYS THE STABBING OCCURRED ON SAT IN THE FRENCH COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF LA DEFENSE *

THE SOLDIER'S INJURIES ARE CONSIDERED NON-LIFE THREATENING *

STABBING COMES JUST DAYS AFTER A BRITISH SOLDIER WAS KILLED IN A LONDON STREET DURING A SUSPECTED TERROR ATTACK *

TWO PEOPLE CONFIRMED DEAD IN HEAVY FLOODING THAT HAS PROMPTED HIGH-WATER RESCUES IN THE SAN ANTONIO AREA *

SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPT SPOX SAYS A 29-YR-OLD WOMAN WAS TRAPPED IN HER CAR AND WAS SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD WATERS AFTER CLIMBING ONTO THE ROOF... THE OTHER FATALITY WAS WOMAN IN HER 60S WHO WAS ALSO SWEPT AWAY IN HER CAR BY RUSHING WATERS *

THE FIRE DEPT HAS CONDUCTED MORE THAN 235 WATER-RELATED RESCUES *

WATER IS UP TO FOUR FEET HIGH IN SOME HOMES *

SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT RECORDED ALMOST 10 INCHES OF RAIN BY SAT AFTERNOON *

THREE MORE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN THE KILLING OF AN OFF-DUTY SOLDIER IN LONDON *

SCOTLAND YARD SAYS COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICERS ARRESTED TWO MEN, 24 AND 28, AT A RESIDENCE IN LONDON *

A THIRD 21-YR-OLD MAN WAS ARRESTED SEPARATELY ON A STREET IN THE CITY *

FOUR OTHERS ARE ALREADY DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF 25-YR-OLD SOLDIER LEE RIGBY, WHO WAS STABBED TO DEATH WHILE WALKING OUTSIDE THE ROYAL ARTILLERY BARRACKS IN SOUTH LONDON WED *

GAS PRICES ONLY ABOUT A PENNY HIGHER THAN A YR AGO, PETROLEUM ANALYSTS AT GASBUDDY.COM SAY *

THE WEBSITE PLACES ESTIMATES FOR THE NATL AVG AT $3.66 PER GALLON, 17 CENTS HIGHER THAN A MONTH AGO *

BUT ANALYST GREGG LASKOSKI SAYS A HOLIDAY WKND DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN HIGHER GAS PRICES *

LASKOSKI SAYS PRICES TEND TO RISE IN SPRING, STAGNATE IN SUMMER AND THEN BEGIN TO FALL IN OCT *

FRENCH AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING WHETHER THERE IS A LINK TO THAT ATTACK *

RESCUERS CONTINUE SEARCH FOR THE PILOT OF THE ANGEL FLIGHT THAT CRASHED IN UPSTATE NY FRI NIGHT, KILLING TWO PASSENGERS *

INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED A POND SAT WHERE THE PLANE WAS FOUND SUBMERGED IN EPHRATAH, WEST OF ALBANY, AS WELL AS NEARBY WOODS *

FAA SAYS THE PLANE LEFT BEDFORD, MA, AND WAS HEADED TO ROME, NY *

ANGEL FLIGHT IS A NONPROFIT GROUP THAT ARRANGES FREE AIR TRANSPORTATION FOR SICK PATIENTS FROM VOLUNTEER PILOTS *

PRES OBAMA PLANNING TO VISIT THE OKLAHOMA CITY AREA SUN TO MEET WITH FAMILIES IMPACTED BY MON'S DEADLY TORNADO *

OBAMA WILL ALSO VIEW FIRSTHAND THE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL RESPONSE EFFORTS *

THE EF5 TWISTER HAD WINDS NEAR 200 MPH AND KILLED 24 PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF MOORE, INCLUDING SEVEN CHILDREN *

NTSB IS ON THE SCENE WHERE A BRIDGE COLLAPSED THURS IN WA *

INVESTIGATORS WILL SPEND AT LEAST A WEEK INSPECTING THE I-5 BRIDGE OVER THE SKAGIT RIVER AT MOUNT VERNON AND TALKING TO THE TRUCK DRIVER WHOSE VEHICLE HIT IT *

THE COLLAPSE SENT VEHICLES AND PEOPLE INTO THE WATER *

THERE WERE NO FATALITIES, BUT RESCUERS PULLED THREE INJURED PEOPLE FROM THE WATER *

THE INVESTIGATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO DELAY REPAIR WORK ON THE BRIDGE *

OLDEST PERSON TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST RETURNS SAFELY FROM MOUNTAIN *

8O-YR-OLD YUICHIRO MIURA WAS PICKED UP BY A HELICOPTER *

THE JAPANESE FORMER EXTREME SKIER SCALED THE PEAK ON THURS *

AN 81-YR-OLD COMPETITOR IS CURRENTLY ATTEMPTING THE SAME FEAT HOPING TO BREAK MIURA'S RECORD *

AT MORE THAN 29,000 FEET, MOUNT EVEREST IS THE WORLD'S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN *

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What’s up with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid? Why do the Senate Democrats pick him as their leader? Pick the Senate’s #2 Democrat, Senator Dick Durbin

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Nov 16 2012 - 7:28 PM ET

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How does Senator Harry Reid get selected as the Democrats Leader in the Senate?   Does he have naked pictures of them?   I know many of the Democratic Senators and they want to solve our nation’s problems so it perplexes me that the Democrats continue to select Senator Reid as their leaders.  Leaders lead….he does not.  And worse, he is using his power to stop others, including his own Democratic Party members from working on solutions to national problems.  This is wrong.

First, Senate Majority Leader has – all by himself – blocked our nation from having a budget.  The President submitted a budget, the House submitted one, members of the Senate Budget Committee wanted to draft one….and Senator Reid refuses to allow the Senate Budget Committee to draft a budget which means the process stops.  Instead of having the 3 budgets (House, President, Senate) to reconcile and set the nation on a path  to solvency, he just stops it all.  He uses his position as Senate Majority Leader to stop any effort by anyone – including other Democratic Senators – from working to put our nation’s finances in order.  This is wrong.  This is not a leader.

And so now I read tonight (see letter posted below from Reid to McCain and Graham) that he refuses to permit the formation of a single Senate Select Committee to investigate the death of 4 Americans in Benghazi.  He says the issue has been “manipulated by Members of both the House and the Senate in service of partisan agendas.”  

Since when does investigating the murder of 4 Americans and investigating absurd misdirecting stories (the video protest story) by the Executive Branch of government become a “partisan agenda?”  Don’t all Americans deserve to know the truth?  What does Senator Reid want to do, ignore it?  Or let those involved investigate themselves like sending the fox out to guard the chicken coop?  There is reason we don’t ask people to investigate themselves.

Senator Reid accuses others of being partisan and yet he is the guilty party.  He is the partisan one.  His blocking for the Obama Administration, the refusal to either submit a budget or allow for a full and open investigation of Benghazi is just that: a partisan agenda.  He does not want to get the facts.  He has taken a side before facts have been developed in the face of very unusual  circumstances surrounding the death of 4 Americans – including inconsistent statements and weird explanations.  Is Senator Reid hiding something? Helping others to hide something?   I don’t know where the facts will lead but I sure become suspicious of those who don’t want them fully and fairly developed and who use their power to stop anyone from getting the facts…especially when 4 Americans are dead. 

It is the Obama Administration – Senator Reid’s party –  who has been politicizing Benghazi.  The Obama Administration has done everything in its power to drag out giving answers until AFTER the election even though time really matters in investigations, especially murders.  You can’t deny that dragging it out past the election and doing it with silly stories and slow walking investigations (like not talking to the Tunisian known to have been at the Consulate) is politicizing!  But, ok….election is over…stop the politicizing….time is up and now Americans should get full and complete answers.

One single select committee to investigate is efficient and wise.  It gets to the bottom of it.  It should include members of the House and the Senate, with both Democrats and Republicans, so as to streamline the process.   Does Senator Reid really think it makes sense to have several committees investigate? drag witnesses multiple times to multiple hearings before several Committees instead of one Committee simply handling it?  

Senator Reid is once again obstructing.  I wish the Senate Democrats would wake up and see what is going on.  Time to set him aside and pick someone else – someone who wants to solve problems, not just get in the way and stall the country.

How about the #2, Senator Dick Durbin?  They should elevate him to Senate Majority Leader.   We need leadership – not obstructionists. 

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