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Someone needs to give Jane Harman an award for this
Post Date: 2009-05-05 06:51:49 by Ada
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Someone needs to give Jane Harman an award for this (updated below - Update II) A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about one of the most shameless and absurd spectacles to appear in Washington in some time: the self-righteous, self-obsessed rage expressed by Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) -- leading defender of Bush's illegal domestic eavesdropping programs -- upon learning that one of her conversations had been legally eavesdropped upon as part of a criminal investigation into the actions of a suspected Israeli agent. Over the weekend, Harman (along with half of the U.S. Congress) appeared at the AIPAC conference and continued her new anti-eavesdropping crusade, actually vowing to ...
Military demands details on soldiers' private guns: Fort Campbell command reversed under pressure
Post Date: 2009-05-04 21:01:21 by Deasy
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A military commander at Fort Campbell in Kentucky demanded his soldiers give him the registration numbers of any guns they own privately and then reveal where they are stored. The order was stopped, according to base officials, when it was discovered the commander was not "acting within his authority." The original order was issued on the letterhead of Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment and said effective March 11, any soldier with a "privately owned weapon" was required to submit the information, along with any information about any concealed carry permit the soldier may have, and what state issued the permit. Further, the rule warned, "If ...
Grants Pass police arrest 10 after downtown fracas ('hate crimes' for conduct) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-05-04 20:10:21 by bluegrass
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Grants Pass police arrested 10 people, including six juveniles as young as 12, in a downtown brawl they say may have had white supremacist and neo-Nazi overtones. Lt. Bill Landis said the Saturday night fight involved up to 20 people, and broke out when someone yelled at three people riding by on bicycles. The fight eventually spread over a couple blocks, though no property damage was reported. Landis said some people were yelling racial slurs and giving the Nazi salute, which allowed for hate crime charges to be brought against some of those arrested. He added that all seven police officers on duty, plus a few more, were needed to break things up. The Daily ...
4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding
Post Date: 2009-05-04 14:18:50 by Jethro Tull
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4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding Ex-Secretary of State Stresses Legality By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 4, 2009 Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president," former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was pressed again on the subject yesterday by a fourth-grader at a Washington school. Rice, in her first appearance in Washington since leaving government, was at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital before giving an evening lecture at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. She held forth amiably before a few dozen students about ...
The Threat
Post Date: 2009-05-04 06:55:45 by Ada
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"…It is necessary to recognize that the ultimate power of every government – whether of kings or caretakers – rests solely on opinion and not on physical force. The agents of government are never more than a small proportion of the total population under their control. This implies that no government can possibly enforce its will upon the entire population unless it finds widespread support and voluntary cooperation within the nongovernmental public." ~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe The Department of Homeland Security issued a report on April 7th titled, "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and ...
AMERICAN GULAG...COMING SOON
Post Date: 2009-05-03 21:34:22 by IndieTX
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American Gulag... Coming Soon By Alan Stang 6-21-5 It was Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer, who made the "gulag archipelago" part of our language. He won the Nobel Prize for the book of that name, lived here in exile and was mentioned in the media almost every day until he made the fateful speech at Harvard, one of many universities founded to spread word of Jesus Christ. On June 8th, 1978, Solzhenitsyn told a Harvard audience that "convergence" of the Soviet and American systems was doomed. "Convergence" has of course been one of the main purposes of the conspiracy for world government since the beginning. While he spoke, it was well under ...
Is the American Experiment Dead?
Post Date: 2009-05-03 17:56:40 by IndieTX
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King George III would be so proud. He and his aristocratic friends laughed at America’s quaint “experiment” with self-government. To them it was unthinkable that common people were enlightened enough to rule themselves. Today that experiment is the envy of a world where people in fewer than 100 countries live under democratic governments. Yet here in the United States, old King George may yet be right. Astonishingly, today’s Americans expect government to care for us from cradle to grave, the way commoners once expected a benevolent king to care for his subjects. We treat people as members of groups rather than as individuals, insidiously devolving into the very class ...
HR 1913 Hate Crimes Bill Heading To The Senate (Critical Analysis)
Post Date: 2009-05-03 15:38:51 by Deasy
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HR 1913 Hate Crimes Bill Heading To The Senate Friday, May 1, 2009 at 3:02AM Douglas V. Gibbs in Constitutional Rights, Government, History, Politics, Crime & Punishment By Douglas V. Gibbs With full control over the Congress by the Democrats, they are trying to push through every vile law that they can muster. One such piece of legislation is H.R. 1913, the federal “Hate Crimes” bill. If this freedom killing leglislation becomes law it will give the incentive of federal funding to local and state law enforcement agencies to prosecute cases involving perceived attacks against sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. This adds to the current law enacted ...
Judge doesn't see humor in Cheba Hut shop(you only have 1st amendment rights if you agree with goverment propaganda )
Post Date: 2009-05-03 13:07:32 by freepatriot32
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GREELEY, Colo., April 28 (UPI) -- A Colorado judge says he won't give a liquor license to the Cheba Hut sub shop, saying he doesn't like the use of marijuana humor in its marketing. Despite no opposition from neighbors and no record of police problems at its location near the University of Northern Colorado campus in Greeley, Judge Robert Frick, the city's lone liquor-license authority, denied owner Scott Jennings a license, The Denver Post reported Tuesday. "This restaurant is founded upon the principles and theme of the illegal drug marijuana and incorporates other illegal controlled-substance-related themes," Frick said in his ruling, perhaps referring to Cheba ...
Harry Reid: Paying Income Tax is Voluntary
Post Date: 2009-05-02 21:26:23 by Artisan
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Harry Reid: Paying Income Tax is Voluntary YouTube May 1, 2009 “Our system is a voluntary system,” declares Reid. Yeah, sure. Don’t try this at home unless you want a SWAT team to drop by [url]
Obama to Ensure Constitutional USA Does Not Return
Post Date: 2009-05-01 20:07:30 by freepatriot32
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About a week ago, I wrote a column that included a long laundry list of what Big Brother Obama is affecting to destroy the USA’s Republic and why he and the Left must do so. Note: The underlying reason was and is to seize and retain—at all costs to humans living within the USA—power over We-the-People. It seems almost impossible to keep up with the presidential usurper Obama’s actions but, I’ll continue to attempt to do so for as long as is possible. Today, we have Obama taking over the US banks which maintain 2/3 (that’s two-thirds folks!) of the USA’s assets. He is putting them through his own personal “stress tests” to ensure that they will ...
Obama and ACORN GPS Marking EVERY Front Door in America?
Post Date: 2009-05-01 19:35:19 by Horse
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According to one of the Census workers, who spoke with me on condition of anonymity, they must GPS mark the coordinates “within 40 ft of every front door” in America and they are supposed to complete that mission nation wide, within 90 days, by the end of July 2009. The workers were not told why they were GPS marking every front door. But a supervisor is sent out to follow them door-to-door, to make certain that no door is left unmarked. Every door will be marked by one employee, and then checked by a follow-up supervisor. So, I had to ask, why? Why does the Obama administration need or want the latitude and longitude coordinates for every home in America? Why the rush to GPS ...
Mom says Patriot Act stripped son of due process
Post Date: 2009-05-01 19:21:18 by freepatriot32
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Oxford, N.C. — Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby's bedroom in his mother's Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere – on the bed, on the floor, on the wall. But according to the United States government, the tenth-grade home-schooler is being held on a criminal complaint that he made a bomb threat from his home on the night of Feb. 15. The family was at a church function that night, his mother, Annette Lundeby, said. "Undoubtedly, they were given false information, or they would not have had 12 agents in my house with a widow and two children and three cats," Lundeby said. Around 10 p.m. on March 5, Lundeby ...
Condi Rice Pulls A Nixon: When the President Does It, That Means It is Not Illegal
Post Date: 2009-05-01 11:31:43 by freepatriot32
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Condoleezza Rice was recently speaking at Stanford when students asked her an excellent question on waterboarding and torture. They have her answer on tape and it isn't pretty. Condi Rice absolutely pulls a Nixon. Here are the relevant quotes: "The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture." Nothing we would do? Nothing? As I ask in the video above, what would happen if the president authorized you to murder someone, would it still not be illegal? Next up, Condoleezza Rice denies any personal responsibility: "I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the ...
Why the 10th?
Post Date: 2009-05-01 06:43:17 by Ada
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The recent rejuvenation of interest in State’s rights, nullification, and secession has been a welcome result of the explosion of federal power since the housing and credit bubbles burst last fall. The 10th Amendment movements and "tea parties" are, at least on one level, a pure form of "republicanism." Unfortunately, there are those who call themselves Republicans who have little understanding about the history of the republic, namely how the Founding generation conceptualized the "united States" as Jefferson called it in the Declaration of Independence. "Country club" Republican "protesters" have jumped on the bandwagon, and as ...
Major defeat for Bush/Obama position on secrecy
Post Date: 2009-05-01 06:38:30 by Ada
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[updated below (interview with lead counsel Ben Wizner of the ACLU) - Update II - Update III (transcript of Wizner interview)] The first sign that the Obama DOJ would replicate many of the worst and most radical arguments of the Bush DOJ was in the Jeppesen case, a lawsuit brought by five victims of the CIA's rendition and torture program (including Binyam Mohamed). The Bush administration had argued that the entire "subject matter" raised by the lawsuit (the rendition program) was such a gravely important "state secret" that the court could not consider any lawsuit relating to that issue. That argument was a by-product of one of the Bush DOJ's most ...
Bush says federal troops might be needed to help stop bird flu pandemic
Post Date: 2009-04-30 14:27:16 by Jethro Tull
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Bush says federal troops might be needed to help stop bird flu pandemic Article from:AP Worldstream Article date:October 5, 2005Author:document.writeln('JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer');document.getElementById('ctl00_ph_ctl00_ArticleMain_AuthorLinks_ctl01_lnkAuthor').title='JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer'More results for:martial law pandemics JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 10-05-2005 Dateline: WASHINGTON President George W. Bush, stirring debate on the worrisome possibility of a bird flu pandemic, suggested federal troops might be dispatched to enforce quarantines in areas where the killer virus might emerge. Bush ...
Obama - Smoking gun finally found?
Post Date: 2009-04-29 17:49:49 by Itistoolate
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Obama - Smoking gun finally found? Tue Apr 28, 2009 15:50 On Tue, 4/28/09, UCT wrote: Interesting concept Obama opposes :: United States Justice Foundation ... Subject: Smoking gun finally found? April 1, 2009 AP- WASHINGTON D.C. - In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental ...
The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs
Post Date: 2009-04-29 09:12:52 by bush_is_a_moonie
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In the seven and a half years since September 11, the United States has witnessed one of the greatest expansions of executive authority in its history, at the expense of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers. President Obama, as only the third sitting senator to be elected president in American history, and the first since John F. Kennedy, may be more likely to respect the separation of powers than President Bush was. But rather than put my faith in any president to restrain the executive branch, I intend to take several concrete steps, which I hope the new president will support. First, I intend to introduce legislation that will mandate Supreme Court review of lower court ...
Bush's betrayal of the Republican party is consummated this day - Specter will carry Silver Bullet Vote
Post Date: 2009-04-28 22:45:15 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Bush's betrayal of the Republican party is consummated this day In 2004, President Bush campaigned actively to help incumbent liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania defeat conservative challenger Rep. Patrick Toomey in the Republican primary, which Specter did by the narrowest of margins. And today? Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said on Tuesday he would switch to the Democratic party, presenting Democrats with a possible 60th vote and the power to break Senate filibusters as they try to advance the Obama administration's new agenda. In a statement issued about noon as the Capitol was digesting the stunning turn of events, Mr. Specter said he had ...
Supreme Court upholds TV profanity crackdown( an d says f**k you to the 1st amendment)
Post Date: 2009-04-28 14:11:04 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court upheld a government crackdown on profanity on television, a policy that subjects broadcasters to fines for airing a single expletive blurted out on a live show. In its first ruling on broadcast indecency standards in more than 30 years, the high court handed a victory on Tuesday to the Federal Communications Commission, which adopted the crackdown against the one-time use of profanity on live television when children are likely to be watching. The case stemmed from an FCC ruling in 2006 that found News Corp's Fox television network violated decency rules when singer Cher blurted out an expletive during the 2002 Billboard Music Awards ...
U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine' -- Cass Sunstein sees Web as anti-democratic, proposed 24-hour delay on sending e-mail
Post Date: 2009-04-28 10:43:05 by Rotara
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Cass Sunstein WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period. The revelations about Cass Sunstein, Obama's friend from the University of Chicago Law School and nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, come in a new book by Brad O'Leary, "Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech." OIRA will oversee regulation throughout the U.S. government. Sunstein also ...
Alabama councilman removes Confederate flags from graves
Post Date: 2009-04-28 03:13:28 by X-15
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Mary Norman was shocked Thursday afternoon when Auburn Councilman Arthur L. Dowdell pulled up a Confederate flag placed on her great-grandfather’s grave and snapped it in half, she said. Dowdell, who denies snapping the flag, said Thursday he was picking up his daughter from Auburn Junior High School near the cemetery when several people told him they “had a problem” with the flags. He drove to the cemetery and started pulling up flags, he said. “It’s offensive to me,” he said. “To me, it represents the Ku Klux Klan and racism.” The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed the flags earlier this week, as they have done for 50 years, in ...
Did Obama Wimp Out on a Rape Case?
Post Date: 2009-04-24 15:41:27 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The president who was once a champion of defendant's right to DNA evidence as a senator in Illinois has now let his Justice Department oppose that right at the Supreme Court. What happened? This week at the Supreme Court, the Obama administration took a position that both surprised and dismayed the president’s supporters in the criminal-justice and civil-rights communities. The Department of Justice’s action was “pretty disappointing,” says David C. Fathi of the civil-rights organization Human Rights Watch. "It isn't consistent with Obama's history of fighting for more access to DNA testing." At issue in District Attorney's Office for the ...
Obama Legal Team Wants Defendants' Rights Limited
Post Date: 2009-04-24 14:49:41 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule long-standing law that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present, another stark example of the White House seeking to limit rather than expand rights. The administration's action _ and several others _ have disappointed civil rights and civil liberties groups that expected President Barack Obama to reverse the policies of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, after the Democrat's call for change during the 2008 campaign. Since taking office, Obama has drawn criticism for backing the continued imprisonment of enemy combatants in Afghanistan without trial, invoking the ...
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