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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Rahm Emanuel On Mandatory Civil Service
Post Date: 2009-01-04 09:40:23 by PSUSA
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Rahm Emanuel On Mandatory Civil Service Published on 01-03-2009 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Daily News Caster Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel discusses his book The Plan in which he outlines a mandatory civil service requirement for all Americans from ages 18 to 25. “You look at WWII that was a draft. This is not a draft it is universal service.” says Emanuel about his mandatory 3 month civil service training program. Barack Obama spoke about the national security force he would like to see created while campaigning in the 2008 presidential election season. “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security ...
Gonzales Defends Role in Antiterror Policies. Some cheese with that whine?
Post Date: 2009-01-02 09:17:41 by PSUSA
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By EVAN PEREZ WASHINGTON -- Alberto Gonzales, who has kept a low profile since resigning as attorney general nearly 16 months ago, said he is writing a book to set the record straight about his controversial tenure as a senior official in the Bush administration. Mr. Gonzales has been portrayed by critics both as unqualified for his position and instrumental in laying the groundwork for the administration's "war on terror." He was pilloried by Congress in a manner not usually directed toward cabinet officials. Alberto Gonzales Interview Excerpts Alberto Gonzales, in his most extensive comments since stepping down as attorney general last year, discussed his tenure as White ...
Suspicious driver arrested near White House
Post Date: 2009-01-02 08:19:17 by PSUSA
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Dec 31, 9:41 PM (ET) WASHINGTON (AP) - Authorities near the White House arrested a man after he drove up to a security checkpoint in his car and drew the attention of wary police dogs Wednesday night, police said. The car approached a checkpoint at an intersection near Lafayette Park, just north of the White House, soon after 6 p.m. and police dogs grew suspicious of the car, according to police accounts. Several fire trucks, police cars and other emergency vehicles reported to the area after the driver was taken into custody. The driver was questioned before being arrested for possession of unregistered ammunition (shotgun shells) and having an unregistered vehicle, said Ed Donovan, a ...
Private Roads Work
Post Date: 2009-01-02 06:27:24 by Ada
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The issue of private roads stymies those who might otherwise be diehard libertarians. They can see how abolishing public education makes for better citizens and respects parental rights. They understand that Medicare, Social Security, and other government transfer programs are immoral abominations. They might even be so enlightened as to think that people should be able to travel where they wish as long as they don’t violate the rights of others in the process. But when it comes to privatizing roads, these same people just can’t see how it will work. Well, there is proof that it can and does. The concept of private roads is a simple one – the government will not be ...
Business groups sue over Homeland Security E-Verify program
Post Date: 2009-01-02 05:47:05 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business organizations filed suit against U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last week, complaining that the Homeland Security Department cannot legally require federal contractors to use its online worker verification database. Beginning January 15, 2009, the department will require certain federal contractors and subcontractors to use its E-Verify system, an online database run by the Homeland Security Department and the Social Security Administration against which employers can check a person's work status. Use of the system is voluntary, but President George Bush signed an executive order earlier this year requiring federal ...
CHANGE IN THE NICK OF TIME-- PART 1 of 3
Post Date: 2009-01-01 20:39:12 by DeaconBenjamin
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A militarized police state is coming to this country--into your own neighborhood, and with you and your family as its targets--unless you start, right now, to enforce the Constitution, as is your right and your duty. In addition to their long-standing strategy of “federalizing” and para-militarizing State and Local police departments under the General Government’s Department of Homeland Security, the big brains in the Disgrace of Columbia have two additional schemes openly in the works: (i) the overtly military, which depends upon the deployment of the Armed Forces as domestic police; and (ii) the covertly military, which depends upon the creation of SOME new, ...
Where's Dick Cheney?
Post Date: 2009-01-01 14:47:29 by TwentyTwelve
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Where's Dick Cheney? He set the pro oil energy policy early in the administration... He bullied the CIA into going along with an attack on Iraq when they knew it was not a threat... He authorized torture... Now he's appearing on TV to set the record straight on his "legacy." Details: www.brasschecktv.com/page/504.html "The results speak for themselves" Can someone explain to me how this weasel ended up running the US for eight years? Hanging is a legally authorized penalty for those convicted of crimes like treason and murder. Of course, Mr. Cheney deserves a fair trial - after eight years in Quantanamo in an orange jumpsuit. Legally authorized ...
The Arrogant Self-Righteousness of Vichy Liberalism
Post Date: 2009-01-01 12:20:50 by Ada
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There was a time when liberalism was the undisputed philosophical underpinning of Western Civilization. Consider the first liberal: John Locke’s ideals freed the world from kings and tyrants and their arrogant self-righteousness that assumed the citizenry was put on earth just for them to command. The forces of liberalism changed the authoritarian paradigm, leading people to believe that consensus was more important than accidents of births. But by the 20th century, liberalism had changed, coming full circle. Today the advocates of modern liberalism no longer embrace liberty and tolerance, but a new type of ruler: a benevolent government determined to make people equal by whatever ...
The DUI Exception to the Constitution
Post Date: 2008-12-31 21:21:30 by freepatriot32
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In the course of various postings concerning MADD, I have received emails suggesting that they are a civic-minded organization which does not deserve my criticisms. As I have said on many occasions, I believe them to be a well-intentioned group of "true believers" — who, like most zealots, have a rigid and narrow focus and are ignorant of the harm they cause to others. And in other posts I have tried to explain the nature of that harm. Many years ago, I was invited to give a lecture to a "think tank" of government, corporate and academic types. In the years since then that I have given versions of it to other groups, the legal and political situation has only grown ...
Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years (and be assured everything still works when you dig it up)
Post Date: 2008-12-31 10:08:42 by PSUSA
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By Charles Wood Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the nation in general and gun owners in particular seemed rather grim to many people. A few years earlier in 1986, Congress had banned civilians from owning newly manufactured machine guns. There was ever more strident talk of banning semi-automatic weapons or so called assault weapons. Many of us regarded a semi-automatic rifle as the foundation of a home defense battery. Many of us believed that more laws banning ever more types of guns were imminent. About that time I acquired a Ruger Ranch Rifle through a private sale. I decided to stash it away in a safe place just in case my worst fear was to materialize, another gun ban. The ...
America's War on Islam - The "Fort Dix Five" [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-12-31 06:01:13 by Stephen Lendman
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America's War on Islam: The "Fort Dix Five" - by Stephen Lendman With world eyes on Gaza, the horrific carnage on the ground, innocent civilians being slaughtered, Israel's grievous crimes of war and against humanity, and its slow-motion genocide gaining speed, it's easy to forget America's war at home on Islam and its growing number of victims. This article highlights five recent ones - innocent young Muslim men called the "Fort Dix Five." On December 22, The New York Times headlined: "5 Are Convicted of Conspiring to Attack Fort Dix" in reporting that a federal jury "convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at (the ...
Eligibility case finds 'standing'? New suit claims unique state law enables citizens to demand proof
Post Date: 2008-12-31 01:14:20 by Rotara
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Eligibility case finds 'standing'? New suit claims unique state law enables citizens to demand proof Posted: December 30, 20089:54 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2008 WorldNetDaily Attorney Stephen Pidgeon A new case challenging Barack Obama's natural-born citizenship and, therefore, constitutional eligibility to serve as president has the potential to clear a hurdle that caused several other similar cases' dismissal: the issue of "standing." In the case brought by Pennsylvania Democrat Philip Berg, for example, a federal judge ruled against the lawsuit in deciding Berg lacked the "standing" to sue, arguing that the ...
A rare peek at Homeland Security’s files on travelers
Post Date: 2008-12-31 00:09:19 by Pinguinite
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The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security. Inside, I found 20 photocopies of the government's records on my international travels. Every overseas trip I've taken since 2001 was noted. I had requested the files after I had heard that the government tracks "passenger activity." Starting in the mid-1990s, many airlines handed over passenger records. Since 2002, the government has mandated that the commercial airlines deliver this information routinely and electronically. A passenger record typically includes the name of the person traveling, the name of the person who submitted the information while arranging the trip, and details ...
FAT-CAT PALACE IS A 'CRA$H' PAD - EX-MERRILL BIG'S 'BAILOUT' BONANZA
Post Date: 2008-12-30 11:41:07 by mirage
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Look what taxpayers' Wall Street rescue helped buy one former honcho! Peter Kraus - a former top executive at Merrill Lynch who received a $25 million golden parachute after only three months' work - has landed himself a $37 million Park Avenue pad. Kraus, 55, doled out the staggering sum for the five-bedroom co-op at 720 Park Ave. near East 70th Street after taking $25 million from Merrill after the company was sold to Bank of America in September. The palatial pad - featuring 11-foot-high ceilings, three fireplaces, three maid's rooms, a library, a gallery and a family room/gym - sold for twice what the previous owners, Democratic fund-raisers Carl Spielvogel and ...
Oregon to use GPS to calculate new "mileage tax"?
Post Date: 2008-12-30 09:58:56 by PSUSA
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Kulongoski to pursue mileage tax By Hasso Hering Albany Democrat-Herald A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads — via a mileage tax and satellite technology — could work. Now Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he’d like the legislature to take the next step. As part of a transportation-related bill he has filed for the 2009 legislative session, the governor says he plans to recommend “a path to transition away from the gas tax as the central funding source for transportation.” What that means is explained on the governor’s website: “As Oregonians drive less and demand more fuel-efficient ...
Suit Claims City Witholding Red Light Camera Study
Post Date: 2008-12-28 14:22:31 by PSUSA
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12-26-2008 Houston Chronicle Two longtime critics of the city's red-light camera program filed an open-records lawsuit against the city today, claiming officials refused to release a study on whether the devices reduce accidents. Houston lawyers Paul Kubosh and Randall Kallinen, who have fought the program in courts before, allege that the report by Rice University professor Bob Stein has languished unseen by the public since August 2008. "It is clearly an open record," they said a written news release. "The public needs to see the report to make informed decisions whether to continue the privately run red-light camera system costing Houston citizens tens of millions ...
Habeas Corpus Barely Saved
Post Date: 2008-12-27 09:51:17 by Ada
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Once in a while the fading embers of freedom flare with defiant vigor. That happened in June when the U.S. Supreme Court sternly informed the Bush administration that it may not hold people suspected of being terrorists indefinitely without charge and without judicial review at its prison at Guantanámo Bay, Cuba. In a too-close-for-comfort 5-4 ruling, the Court reminded the American people — indeed, the world — that arbitrary power destroys individual liberty. Where government can lock people up and throw away the key — answerable to no one at all — there liberty does not dwell. That is what the Bush administration has aspired to, but in June the Court drew a ...
BANKRUPTED STATES = CON-CON & NEWSTATE CONSTITUTION
Post Date: 2008-12-27 07:57:22 by PSUSA
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BANKRUPTED STATES = CON-CON & NEWSTATE CONSTITUTION By Nancy Levant December 24, 2008 NewsWithViews.com The strategically planned and forthcoming Constitutional Convention, which will address “a balanced budget,” is quite a cover story. Therefore, let us consider the truth behind this elaborate usurpation scheme. As the country is failing in every direction – from the former individual in America to each and every individual state in the country, the total economic crash of EVERYTHING – and all converging at the very same time and as we speak – is, let us say, extraordinarily convenient. Add this convenience to the fact that on March 27, 1969, President ...
Puppycide
Post Date: 2008-12-26 08:46:15 by PSUSA
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Radley Balko | December 23, 2008, 11:38am Infuriating story from San Diego's City Beat: Around noon on Tuesday, Dec. 2, [Demarkus] Peeples was watching TV at home when he heard a knock at the front door. When he looked out the door’s top window, he saw a group of men standing on his porch wearing jeans and T-shirts, a couple of them looking a little ratty. To get a better look, he went to a side window and peeked through the drawn blinds. “Honestly, they looked like they were transients,” he said. The men, it ends up, were undercover narcotics officers who were there on a complaint about drug activity at that address—Peeples was later told that it had to do with a ...
Fed lets GMAC tap bailout fund
Post Date: 2008-12-25 01:44:04 by Rotara
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The Federal Reserve has granted a request by the financing arm of General Motors to tap the government's $700 billion rescue fund, bolstering GM's ability to survive. The Fed announced Wednesday that it had approved GMAC Financial Services' request to become a bank holding company. That designation makes GMAC eligible to receive a portion of the bailout fund and get emergency loans directly from the Fed. Analysts had speculated that without financial help, GMAC would have had to file for bankruptcy protection or shut down, dealing a serious blow to GM's own chances for survival. The Fed cited "emergency conditions" in justifying its decision. The move to rescue ...
Kenyan government imposes gag order on Obama family - No media contact: 'We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information
Post Date: 2008-12-25 00:17:57 by Rotara
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Gagged: Mama Sarah ObamaThe Kenyan government has barred unapproved contacts between the media and President-elect Barack Obama's extended family. Family members will be required to receive permission from the government before making any public statements about their famous relative, according to the Nairobi Star. "We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information," Athman Said, an under-secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told the Obama family in Kogelo. "The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media." Journalists wishing to speak with the family must first ...
Real ID/RFID Enhanced Border Passport Cards Available Now...
Post Date: 2008-12-24 12:36:17 by farmfriend
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Real ID/RFID Enhanced Border Passport Cards Available Now... Written by Jim Capo Saturday, 20 December 2008 12:52 Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was handing out "extensions" to all 50 states, including those that refused to comply with federal deadlines, for upgrading their driver licenses to Real ID security requirements. Meanwhile, the United States Department of State continued to move forward with the Bush Administration's Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). The WHTI requires that citizens of the United States, wishing to "get themselves home," must present a WHTI compliant piece of identification at all land and sea ...
Feds consider searches of terrorism blogs
Post Date: 2008-12-24 11:33:37 by bush_is_a_moonie
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WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA. The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit members and spread propaganda. "Blogging and message boards have played a substantial role in allowing communication among those who would do the United States harm," the department said in a recent notice. Homeland Security officials are looking for companies to search the Internet for postings "in near to real-time which precede" an attack, particularly a bombing. Bombings are "of great ...
North Las Vegas pig James Vernon Clayton arrested, still getting paid.
Post Date: 2008-12-24 09:41:51 by PSUSA
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North Las Vegas Police Detectives arrested 40-year-old James Vernon Clayton Tuesday morning. Clayton has over three years of service with the North Las Vegas Police Department. He was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on five counts of misconduct of a public officer (felony), two counts of oppression under color of office (felony), and one count of open and gross lewdness (gross misdemeanor). Clayton was arrested on a warrant obtained after a five month investigation conducted by North Las Vegas Police Department Investigators. That investigation was prompted by third party allegations of misconduct on Clayton's part while he was on duty as a patrol officer ...
The First Amendment Takes Another Hit
Post Date: 2008-12-24 05:59:01 by Ada
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Fellow Brooklynite Javed Iqbal, 45, today plead guilty to broadcasting Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV programming to US customers. The charge is “providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.” Eric brought this news item to my attention and asked if I wanted to blog about it. “Not really. What should I add?” “Add your outrage.” I paused and thought about it. “But I’m not outraged right now.” And that got me to thinking — why AREN’T I outraged? Is it that I am so used to this Administration jailing people for absurd and frivolous reasons? Am I now merely bored by the thought of the government spying on American ...
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