A president who doesn't take photographers

AP Texas News "Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass shooting on an Army post in the United States. The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood's Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night."

Survivors Say Fort Hood Gunman Shot the Wounded Again

ABC News ""I started crawling, I called 911 with my phone to my side... and I turned back and looked at him. He was about two body lengths away from me, longways, shooting people on the ground still. So I was just waiting to get shot in the back," she said. Bono instead made it to a cubicle and around the corner out of sight where a sergeant and other soldiers were hiding."

It's a 'Christmas' tree at the Ky. Capitol again

Google News "Spokeswoman Kerri Richardson says the administration received a steady stream of e-mails and phone calls about the "holiday" tree. She says it's always been a Christmas tree to the governor, and it will be this year, too." It's that time again.

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Obama to Native Americans: 'No Lip Service....I'm on Your Side'

ABC News ""For the next eight years -- next four years at least -- let me now jump the gun. For the next three years and one month that I'm assured of this current position, we are going to make sure that we put the infrastructure and the framework in place so that a new dynamic, a new set of relationships have been established.”" Then this: "A tribal leader from Wisconsin gave Obama the Indian name "He Who Cares," and a man who rose wearing a war bonnet told the president he wanted to him to have it."

Fort Hood Tragedy: What Muslims Know and what non-Muslims conveniently don’t

The American Muslim "Many American Muslims have no criminal records and have HONORABLE Discharges, many of them gave the ultimate sacrifice for our nation and are buried in Arlington, this murderer is no more a part of us as the pedophile priest, the abortion doctor killer, or the millions behind bars now who claim to be Christian, are a part of you. Can we all just be civil for a moment see this as a tragedy for all Americans..." Robert Salaam: a veteran of the United States Marine Corps where he served for 6 years until receiving an Honorable Discharge as a Sergeant.

The Victims of Fort Hood

Pajamas Media "...Hasan had taken “a lot of extra classes in weapons training, which seems a little odd for a psychiatrist.” In retrospect — and combined with information that Hasan had started yesterday by giving away some of his personal effects, such as furniture — it appears that his assault at Fort Hood wasn’t the result of a man under extreme pressure suddenly snapping. Instead, it looks like a calculating murderer took the time to prepare for his attack well in advance."

Great question; squishy answer

ABC News Jake Tapper: "Kind of a -- a theoretical question, but what -- at what point does an attack become considered a terrorist attack, even -- even if it's a domestic terrorist attack?"

Tea Partiers 'Stormed' Congress, But Pro-ObamaCare 'Activists' Simply 'Staged a Sit-in'

Newsbusters "Take Washington Post's Philip Rucker, who did masterful job in skewing his 19-paragaph-long page A4 story "Activists bring 'tea party' to Capitol Hill" in favor of ObamaCare proponents while smearing conservatives in a negative light. Rucker's labeling bias was a thread woven through the entire piece, starting with the lead paragraph (emphasis mine) ..."

Pregnant Soldier Shot Dead By Fort Hood Killer Screaming “Allahu Akbar” ..Update: Hasan Sat on Obama’s National Security Panel

Gateway Pundit "Velez was a sitting duck when the accused gunman, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, yelled “God is great” in Arabic and opened fire with the two guns he’d smuggled into an intake center, Col. John Rossi said at a post-massacre briefing." No mention of the child's father.

In Forcing Americans to Buy Health Insurance, Dems Are Saying, ‘The Hell With the Constitution,’ Mark Levin Says

CNS News "Both the House and Senate versions of health-care reform would force all individuals who are citizens or legal residents of the United States to buy health insurance or else pay a fine. That had Levin fuming..."

‘Kill the Bill,’ Conservatives Chant at ‘House Call’ Rally on Capitol Hill

CNS News I looked all through today's USA Today for mention of this huge rally and found only the mention of supporters and opponents staging "dueling demonstrations"