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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
McCain_Rocks (or sucks) says there is no hope outside the Republican Party. I kid you not. If that is true, we are doomed, doomed I tell you!
Post Date: 2010-02-18 15:10:15 by James Deffenbach
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#23. To: out damned spot (#18) Ron Paul will never be president! Wake up and smell the defeat. And as fond as some are at calling Palin, "The Quitter," you can't beat Ron Paul for quitting! He is a SPOILER! EVERY STINKING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION! I agree. Every vote for Ron Paul was also a vote for BaLACK Obama. If you don't vote Republican then you are a DEMONrat plain and simple. Sarah Palin is a saint of a woman who will lead us to victory. As someone who lives in Nevada, are you going to sit idly by while your state's Tea Party continues its despicable actions against Sarah? It sounds like you realize there is no hope outside of the Republican Party. ...
Solidifying the Cult of Lincoln, Penny Wise
Post Date: 2010-02-17 21:42:54 by X-15
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In case you missed it (I did), Friday was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. In honor of the Great Centralizer, the United States Mint unveiled a new design for the penny. This should put to rest all of the discussion about the elimination of the worthless copper-clad zinc cent, but the real emphasis should be on the new message the penny pushes on the American public: Lincoln "saved the Union" and State’s rights is a fallacy. Don’t forget it. The face of the penny will remain unchanged, but the reverse will feature a shield with thirteen stripes and the phrase "E Pluribus Unum" emblazoned across the top. The Mint described the symbolism of the new penny as ...
Taxpayers Underwrite Prosecutors' Negligence; Negligent Prosecutors Get Promoted
Post Date: 2010-02-17 17:26:30 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Larimer County, Colorado will pay Tim Masters $4.1 million for his 1999 wrongful murder conviction. Masters was released last year after he was exonerated by DNA testing. The money will come from the county's risk management fund and from a payment from the county's insurer. The former is funded by taxpayers, and the latter will almost certainly raise the county's premiums, also paid by taxpayers. More interesting is who won't be paying. Former prosecutors Terry Gilmore and Jolene Blair convicted Masters on flimsy evidence (some drawings he'd made and testimony from an alleged expert on sexual deviants). They were also actually censured by Colorado Supreme Court for not ...
Mount Vernon Mush (Faux conservatives still trying to manipulate the ignorant)
Post Date: 2010-02-17 17:14:11 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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A bunch of right-wing heavyweights (and middleweights, and lightweights) have put together the Mount Vernon Statement, purportedly a manifesto for "constitutional conservatism." Glenn Reynolds writes that it's "heavy on small-government stuff, and light on social-issue meddling," and he suggests that "this supports the notion of a libertarian shift on the right." I suppose it's significant that the authors felt their agenda would be more appealing if it were framed with somewhat libertarian language, and if that's all that Reynolds means then I don't disagree. But the rhetoric here is so all-inclusive and platitudinous as to be practically ...
Obama Executive Order on Interpol Gives Fatcats Full Tax Exemption
Post Date: 2010-02-17 16:13:22 by Itistoolate
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Obama Executive Order on Interpol Gives Fatcats Full Tax Exemption | Written by Thomas R. Eddlem Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:04 President Barack Obama amended Reagan-era Executive Order 12425 on December 17, which granted agents of the global police database Interpol full immunity from U.S. tax and customs laws, as if they were full ambassadors from other countries. The original 1983 executive order designated Interpol as an international organization protected by some immunity laws, but Obama's amendment granted all Interpol employees full exemption from U.S. taxes and customs inspections. Under provisions of Obama's executive order, Interpol and its employees in the United ...
Antonin Scalia: No right to secede
Post Date: 2010-02-17 15:49:59 by freepatriot32
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Is there a right to secede from the Union, or did the Civil War settle that? Certain Tea Partiers have raised the possibility of getting out while the getting's good, setting off a round of debate on legal blogs. The more cerebral theorists at the smart legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy question whether such a right exists. Enter a New York personal injury lawyer, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The lawyer, Eric Turkewitz, says his brother Dan, a screenwriter, put just such a question to all of the Supreme Court justices in 2006 -- he was working on an idea about Maine leaving the U.S.and a big showdown at the Supreme Court -- and Scalia responded. His answer was no: ...
Status, ‘person’ and ‘individual.’
Post Date: 2010-02-17 14:02:33 by PatrickHenry
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Status, ‘person’ and ‘individual.’ A few words on claiming and establishing one’s true ‘status’—which is defined as "[a] legal personal relationship, not temporary in its nature nor terminable at the mere will of the parties." (Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th edition. Emphasis added.) State Citizenship is a status not created by either the corporate State or the common law state, but is a natural common law birthright. The right to such a determination is also supported by an international treaty, to which the United States is a party: International covenant on civil and political rights Article 1 All peoples have the right of ...
Fed’s Objectives Threatened by U.S. Debt
Post Date: 2010-02-17 11:30:38 by DeaconBenjamin
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Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said the U.S. must take “difficult” steps to reduce spending and increase revenue so the central bank isn’t pressured to fund the “unsustainable” federal debt. “It is a fact that the current outlook for fiscal policy poses a threat to the Federal Reserve’s ability to achieve its dual objectives of price stability and maximum sustainable long- term growth, and therefore is a threat to its independence as well,” Hoenig said today in a speech in Washington. The Obama administration estimates budget deficits will total $4.3 trillion during the next five years and hit a ...
250+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' Found in the Mainstream Media [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-16 16:34:50 by James Deffenbach
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250+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' Found in the Mainstream Media
Another case of TSA overkill [disabled 4 yr old forced to remove leg braces & ordered to walk through dectector]
Post Date: 2010-02-16 10:32:46 by James Deffenbach
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Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in. Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn't allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces? Unfortunately, it's no joke. This happened to Bob Thomas, a 53-year-old officer in Camden's emergency crime suppression team, who was flying to Orlando in March with his wife, Leona, and their son, Ryan. Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday. The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have ...
MK-ULTRA: The CIA's Mind Control Program
Post Date: 2010-02-16 05:57:52 by Stephen Lendman
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MK-ULTRA: The CIA's Mind Control Program - by Stephen Lendman MK-ULTRA was the code name for a secret CIA mind control program, begun in 1953, under Director Allen Dulles. Its purpose was multifold, including to perfect a truth drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War. It followed earlier WW II hypnosis, primitive drugs research, and the US Navy's Project Chatter, explained by its Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request as follows: It began "in the fall of 1947 focusing on the identification and testing of drugs (LSD and others) in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. The research included ...
545 People
Post Date: 2010-02-14 20:06:31 by Esso
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545 People By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control ...
Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power
Post Date: 2010-02-14 12:36:56 by Ada
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WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities. Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign. “We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders ...
[Former Vice President Dan] Quayle: 51 Votes 'Not What Our Founding Fathers Had In Mind'
Post Date: 2010-02-13 14:28:45 by Ferret Mike
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Former Vice President Dan Quayle appeared on Fox News this afternoon to chip in his two cents on the health care debate. Namely, he warned that using the reconciliation process would set a "very bad precedent" because a simple majority is just unconstitutional. "They're gonna go to budget reconciliation, which I believe would set a very bad precedent, because essentially -- if they could do it, and I don't know if they can do it, but if they could do it -- what you have done, effectively, is to take away the filibuster in the United States Senate," Quayle said. "So, therefore, you have 51 votes in the House and 51 votes in the Senate. That is not what our ...
U.S. reviewing terrorism suspects procedures: report
Post Date: 2010-02-13 11:17:15 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The White House is reviewing a plan that would require the Justice Department and FBI to consult with the intelligence community before deciding whether to inform terrorism suspects arrested in the United States that they have the right to remain silent and to consult with an attorney, according to the Washington Post. U.S. Senior administration officials said the proposed change in policy is the result of a review ordered by President Barack Obama, the paper reported in its Saturday edition. It follows a controversy over the handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a plane headed to Detroit on Christmas Day and who was read his so-called ...
Paper Money and the Constitution
Post Date: 2010-02-13 08:52:04 by Eric Stratton
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Paper Money and the Constitution by Rick Lynch January 2009 Why do we have a Constitution? How and why did it come into existence? Just what, exactly, prompted the calling of the Constitutional Convention, which gave birth to it? Most Americans believe, logically enough, that with the passing of the British from the scene it was simply time to create a new government to take the place of the old. That notion, however, ignores the facts that Americans already had a functioning government at the time of the Convention and that that government had been in effect for six years following the final British defeat at Yorktown. No, the overthrow of the old government and the establishment of the ...
TSA Patriots
Post Date: 2010-02-12 00:31:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Posted by Lew Rockwell on February 11, 2010 04:08 PM Writes Todd Fuller: While returning from a work trip in Reno yesterday, I happened to be on the same flight as 3 young amputees that were without a doubt military “veterans.” I have a difficult time using that term since these were just kids. I’d guess their ages to be around 22 to 25. I must mention that I’m fully anti-war and do not subscribe to the “support the troops” mantra. However, I did serve in the Navy and therefore realize that choices made at a young age don’t always have to define who you are for the rest of your life. I looked at these young kids and couldn’t help but well up a ...
Yes, I Can Break The Law: I’m a Police Officer
Post Date: 2010-02-12 00:27:23 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The totalitarian conceit that people wearing state-issued costumes are exempt from the laws that govern mere Mundanes was expressed with commendable candor by Sgt. Graig Harding of the St. George (Utah) Police Department. “Officers break laws to keep law and order,” announced the headline of Harding’s February 3 “On the Beat” column. Harding explained that because “[t]hose who serve in law enforcement occupy a special niche in society,” they sometimes “have to break the very laws they are sworn to uphold.” This means, for instance, “officers buy drugs to arrest sellers (which would be an illegal act for a citizen).” Note carefully how ...
The Antifederalists Were Right
Post Date: 2010-02-11 23:24:20 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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September 27 marks the anniversary of the publication of the first of the Antifederalist Papers in 1789. The Antifederalists were opponents of ratifying the US Constitution. They feared that it would create an overbearing central government, while the Constitution's proponents promised that this would not happen. As the losers in that debate, they are largely overlooked today. But that does not mean they were wrong or that we are not indebted to them. In many ways, the group has been misnamed. Federalism refers to the system of decentralized government. This group defended states rights — the very essence of federalism — against the Federalists, who would have been more ...
Obama is Owned - You Can Bank On It
Post Date: 2010-02-11 09:04:42 by Eric Stratton
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Obama is Owned - You Can Bank On It Ann Coulter Wednesday, February 10, 2010 The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. As the saying goes, there is no truer friend than a Wall Street arbitrageur -- they are the salt-of-the-earth, the most loyal men who ever drew a breath! What are Republicans thinking? While not every money-manipulator on Wall Street deserves to be treated like a heroin dealer, lots do. Could the Republicans be a little more discriminating in picking up the Democrats' old friends? The Democrats are acting as if they want to punish everyone in the financial ...
Palin Exposes the Tea Partiers' True Colors [SPOT-ON READ!!!] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-11 08:51:55 by Eric Stratton
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Palin Exposes the Tea Partiers' True Colors Steve Chapman Thursday, February 11, 2010 The tea party movement started as a welcome protest against the alarming growth of federal spending and federal control. It had a strong anti-statist flavor, or seemed to. But judging from the applause for Sarah Palin at its convention, the movement's suspicion of government power is exceeded only by its worship of government power. Her keynote address at last week's gathering in Nashville may have been the curtain raiser on a 2012 presidential campaign. "I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country," she told Fox News when ...
Guantanamo Detainee Deaths: Responding to the Defense Department's Whitewash
Post Date: 2010-02-11 05:51:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Guantanamo Detainee Deaths: Responding to the Defense Department's Whitewash - by Stephen Lendman On December 7, 2009, under the direction of Professor Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall University School of Law's Center for Policy & Research (CP&R) published its 15th GITMO report titled, "Death in Camp Delta," covering three simultaneous deaths on June 9, 2006 in the maximum security Alpha Block. The detainees were found hanged in separate cells shortly after midnight on June 10, unobserved for at least two hours, rags stuffed down their throats, despite constant surveillance by five guards responsible for 28 inmates in a lit cell block monitored by video cameras. One of ...
Arabic flashcards land student in U.S. detention
Post Date: 2010-02-10 17:46:33 by Ferret Mike
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Federal agents detained and interrogated a U.S. college student at the Philadelphia airport simply because we was carrying a set of English-Arabic flashcards, a lawsuit alleged on Wednesday. The American Civil Liberties Union said it filed the suit on behalf Nicholas George, 22, a language student at Pomona College in California who was held at Philadelphia International Airport for nearly five hours in August 2009. George, a U.S. citizen from the Philadelphia suburb of Wyncote, was on his way back to college when airport security officers found him carrying the flashcards, each of which had an English word on one side and its Arabic equivalent on the other, the ...
It Is Now Official: The US Is a Police State [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-10 06:41:00 by Ada
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Americans have been losing the protection of law for years. In the 21st century the loss of legal protections accelerated with the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” which continues under the Obama administration and is essentially a war on the Constitution and U.S. civil liberties. The Bush regime was determined to vitiate habeas corpus in order to hold people indefinitely without bringing charges. The regime had acquired hundreds of prisoners by paying a bounty for terrorists. Afghan warlords and thugs responded to the financial incentive by grabbing unprotected people and selling them to the Americans. The Bush regime needed to hold the prisoners without charges ...
Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor
Post Date: 2010-02-09 22:36:45 by Ferret Mike
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KERMIT, Tex. — It occurred to Anne Mitchell as she was writing the letter that she might lose her job, which is why she chose not to sign it. But it was beyond her conception that she would be indicted and threatened with 10 years in prison for doing what she knew a nurse must: inform state regulators that a doctor at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. When she was fingerprinted and photographed at the jail here last June, it felt as if she had entered a parallel universe, albeit one situated in this barren scrap of West Texas oil patch. “It was surreal,” said Mrs. Mitchell, 52, the wife of an oil field mechanic and mother of a teenage son. “I said how can ...
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