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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
US Postal Rates Undermine Small Publications
Post Date: 2007-04-18 14:07:24 by Stephen Lendman
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New US Postal Rates Undermine Small Publications - by Stephen Lendman The US Constitution's First Amendment guarantees the right of free expression including a press free to do it in. Jefferson, Madison and Congress wanted information easily and cheaply disseminated to the public and structured a comprehensive postal system designed to do it reaching into cities and villages alike including in new developing parts of the country in the West. The mass media of that time consisted largely of pamphlets like those Tom Paine wrote and colonial era newspapers beginning with the first ever published called the Boston News-Letter debuting in April, 1704 and later Ben Franklin's ...
Supreme Court Backs Power of Career Criminal Law
Post Date: 2007-04-18 13:34:46 by Brian S
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(04-18) 10:12 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday underscored the broad impact of a federal law allowing longer sentences for violent "career criminals." In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled against Alphonso James, a Florida man with three prior felony convictions, including one for attempted burglary. As long as an offense presents a serious potential risk of injury to another person, it satisfies the requirements of the Armed Career Criminal Act, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion. Attempted burglary under Florida law satisfies the requirement, Alito added. In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia said the boundaries of the act are ...
OK to boot Bush dissenters: attys.
Post Date: 2007-04-17 22:49:19 by robin
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Bush event volunteers say they did nothing wrong The Associated Press DENVER | White House officials have the right to exclude dissenters from appearances by President Bush, according to lawyers for volunteers who helped eject three people from a hall where Bush was about to speak. Defense attorneys made the argument last week in a civil suit filed against Michael Casper and Jay Bob Klinkerman. The suit was filed by Leslie Weise and Alex Young of Denver, who were told to leave just before Bush was to talk about his plans for Social Security at the March 21, 2005, taxpayer-funded event in Denver. Weise and Young argue they were ejected for their political views. They had arrived in a car ...
Sen. Harry Reid Cautions Against Rush on Stricter Gun Control Laws After Va. Tech Shootings
Post Date: 2007-04-17 19:42:52 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - After the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cautioned Tuesday against a "rush to judgment" on stricter gun control. A leading House supporter of restrictions on firearms conceded passage of legislation would be difficult. "I think we ought to be thinking about the families and the victims and not speculate about future legislative battles that might lie ahead," said Reid, a view expressed by other Democratic leaders the day after the shootings that left 33 dead on the campus of Virginia Tech. Democrats traditionally have been in the forefront of efforts to pass gun control legislation, but there is a widespread ...
White House to RNC: Don't You Give Those Emails to Dems
Post Date: 2007-04-17 18:56:22 by aristeides
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White House to RNC: Don't You Give Those Emails to Dems By Paul Kiel - April 17, 2007, 4:40 PM The White House and Democrats in Congress are both pushing for emails kept by the Republican National Committee, and the RNC is caught in the middle. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), wants to get its hands on those RNC-issued email accounts used by Karl Rove and other White House personnel. Congressional investigators want to know about Rove's and his deputy's involvement in the U.S. attorney firings. But the White House insists that it review the emails first, before handing anything over to Democrats. Last week, Conyers warned the RNC not to do ...
Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school (PAT ROBERTSON'S REGENT U)
Post Date: 2007-04-17 16:11:01 by aristeides
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Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school Grads influential in Justice Dept. By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 8, 2007 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- The title of the course was Constitutional Law, but the subject was sin. Before any casebooks were opened, a student led his classmates in a 10-minute devotional talk, completed with "amens," about the need to preserve their Christian values. "Sin is so appealing because it's easy and because it's fun," the law student warned. Regent University School of Law, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," has worked hard in its two-decade history to ...
Ban People - They Kill
Post Date: 2007-04-17 06:32:34 by Ada
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The tragic murders of Virginia Tech students, apparently by an insane person, will prompt new attempts to ban private ownership of guns. Once guns are banned, crime will explode. Households and vulnerable members of society will lose the ability to defend, which will invite more intrusions and attacks. Knife crimes will rise as they have in Great Britain. Gun prohibition will create a new industry for criminals – gun running and black market sales. Police will conduct stings by posing as black market gun dealers and entrap innocent citizens driven by fear and threat to secure means of personal protection. A large industry of family businesses dedicated to meeting the needs of ...
Uni gunman 'was Chinese student'
Post Date: 2007-04-17 01:51:11 by robin
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Uni gunman 'was Chinese student' From correspondents in Washington April 17, 2007 01:40pm Article from: AAP VICTIM: The first photo of a victim of the Virginia Tech massacre, Ryan Clark (left) has emerged. Meanwhile a survivor, Clay Violand, has told of his terror as the gunman, believed to be a Chinese student, opened fire. REPORTS have emerged that the gunman who killed 32 people in a rampage at a US university was a Chinese man who arrived in the country last year on a student visa. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed reported today that sources have said the 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai. ...
Crack pot Cops Cuff wrong Chink
Post Date: 2007-04-16 23:02:18 by Jethro Tull
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Story here
Roundup of No-Fly lists and other watchlists
Post Date: 2007-04-16 19:19:46 by Zipporah
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Roundup of No-Fly lists and other watchlists Wired News's Ryan Singel published an excellent three-part story on watchlists, no-fly lists and similar enemies lists compiled by the Bush government. These are lists of people who are too dangerous to give a mortgage to, let on an airplane etc -- or just people who need to be sat down in a little room and questions for hours on end, every time they get on an airplane -- but not so dangerous that they need arresting. No one will say who's on these lists, nor how you get on these lists, nor how you get off -- but there are babies, US senators, and tiny, harmless old ladies on the list. Kushigian is just a member of a growing club of ...
Campus Gun Ban Disarmed Virginia Tech Victims
Post Date: 2007-04-16 17:28:19 by Mind_Virus
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Campus Gun Ban Disarmed Virginia Tech Victims VA Tech has "blood on its hands" as gun control advocates milk tragic events Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet Monday, April 16, 2007 A gun ban recently enforced by Virginia Tech campus prevented over thirty victims of today's mass shooting from defending themselves against the killer, and yet gun control advocates are already politicizing this morning's tragic events to pull the lever for mass gun control. Virginia is a concealed carry state and yet Virginia Tech campus recently enforced a policy prohibiting "unauthorized possession, storage or control" of firearms on campus. According to gun ...
Ex-Justice Official's Statements Contradict Gonzales on Firings (MIKE BATTLE)
Post Date: 2007-04-16 15:18:42 by aristeides
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Ex-Justice Official's Statements Contradict Gonzales on Firings By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, April 16, 2007; A04 The former Justice Department official who carried out the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year told Congress that several of the prosecutors had no performance problems and that a memo on the firings was distributed at a Nov. 27 meeting attended by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a Democratic senator said yesterday. The statements to House and Senate investigators by Michael A. Battle, former director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, represent another potential challenge to the credibility of Gonzales, who has said ...
Monica Goodling - A graduate of Messiah College and Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School
Post Date: 2007-04-16 10:52:54 by robin
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Monica Goodling is not my kind of gal. A graduate of two schools not known for partying (Messiah College and Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School), she would not be my ideal seatmate on a long airplane flight. But for vowing to take the Fifth in the ongoing probe of why and how eight U.S. attorneys were fired, I offer her my hearty congratulations. She knows that in Washington, free speech can cost you a for tune in legal fees. The standard question about Goodling is: What is she hiding? After all, until her resignation last week, Goodling was the senior counselor to Attor ney General Alber to Gonzales and his liaison to the White House. She was at the center of the White ...
Hookergate: The Silencing of Carol Lam
Post Date: 2007-04-15 14:14:00 by Zipporah
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THE SILENCING OF CAROL LAM Was San Diego US Attorney fired for knowing too much? WORLD EXCLUSIVE April 10 2007 by Daniel Hopsicker Several little-noticed recent developments point towards major fireworks still to come in the current series of Republican scandals... Fired San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam has disclosed the existence of a still-secret and presumably-sealed indictment of an as-yet unknown individual in the Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham “Hookergate” Scandal, issued by her office at the same time as indictments were made public last month of defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former CIA No 3. man Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the MadCowMorningNews has ...
Smoking gun: the Senate has the documents...
Post Date: 2007-04-15 14:00:48 by Zipporah
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The use of multiple e-mail accounts to bypass the spirit and letter of the law governing White House documents and communications is a major development in the growing Prosecutor Purge Scandal: In other words, it was an open secret at the White House that the parallel system was to be used for everything you didn't want coming out later—an understanding that was most likely never made explicit, but a situation that was carefully preserved by not providing apparently any parameters for what sort of communication should be done via the White House system. And naturally, now that folks are asking questions the emails have been lost—perhaps up to 5 million of them. So, we ...
Zundel challenges judges in bid for rehearing
Post Date: 2007-04-15 09:03:34 by Eoghan
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Cincinnati, Ohio--Two of three judges who denied his federal court appeal should voluntarily disqualify themselves because of improper associations with his federal government adversary, maverick publisher Ernst Zundel says in a petition filed April 12 with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati seeking a rehearing on his United States habeas corpus case. The court denied his bid for a habeas corpus fact-finding hearing in February 2007. Zundel, a German national married to a United States citizen but currently jailed in Germany, is asking for either a rehearing by a new three-judge panel because of bias, or a rehearing en banc by a larger group of judges because of the critical ...
WHO HIRED THE PENTAGON & WHAT DO THEY WANT DONE?
Post Date: 2007-04-14 21:22:08 by robin
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On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the Pentagon had lost, by the estimate he chose to use for his speech, $2.3 trillion dollars. Many of you good readers know about this and are asking where the money went? That's a good question, but what really intrigues me is: Where did it come from? If you add up the entire US defense budgets from 1996 to 2001, you only come up with circa $1.6 trillion. Yet, according to Rummy, not only was that much money lost, but an ADDITIONAL $700 billion dollars has disappeared. Remember, we're talking about $2.3 trillion dollars missing. Exact figures vary by source, but are close to each other, so I'll deal in ...
Perry aide has data on Texans [sieg heil]
Post Date: 2007-04-14 19:05:07 by IndieTX
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AUSTIN – The Homeland Security Division of the governor's office has pieced together a mammoth database that contains information on more than 1 million Texans, covering everything from traffic tickets to more serious run-ins with police. The operation has been overseen for the last two years by Steve McCraw, who reports directly to Gov. Rick Perry. He is not a certified police officer, although he has an extensive law enforcement background. Such extensive data collection raises privacy worries, civil libertarians say, especially when thousands of law-enforcement officials across the state have access to the information. They also question whether the data is secure enough. ...
Does the RNC Have Launch Codes?
Post Date: 2007-04-14 13:23:52 by robin
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According to House Democrats, the White House is stonewalling on offering up e-mails sent on the RNC's servers for the U.S. Attorneys investigation.White House Counsel Fred Fielding, in a letter today, told Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, that the White House has not budged in its refusal to allow the panels to question several White House aides, including Karl Rove, about what they know regarding the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, moving the two sides closer to a constitutional battle over the scandal...."As I stated in my earlier letter to the Republican National Committee today, the Judiciary ...
Weekly Standard: Bush has "near dictatorial power"
Post Date: 2007-04-14 08:28:34 by Ada
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The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb participated in a conference call with former Senator George Mitchell yesterday, during which Mitchell advocated a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. This is what Goldfarb wrote about that call: Pam Hess, the UPI reporter who gave us this extremely moving and persuasive glimpse of the liberal case for the war in Iraq, asked if timetables for withdrawal "somehow infringe on the president's powers as commander in chief?" Mitchell's less than persuasive answer: "Congress is a coequal branch of government...the framers did not want to have one branch in charge of the government." True enough, but they sought an energetic ...
Documents Show Justice Ranking U.S. Attorneys
Post Date: 2007-04-14 02:20:59 by nolu_chan
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All Things Considered, April 13, 2007 · The Justice Department sent Congress a new batch of documents about the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys. The documents show Justice Department and White House staffers planning the firings and trying to control the subsequent fallout. Some of the newly released documents are repeats, like the letter in which Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, responds to a suggestion from White House counsel Harriet Miers that all 93 U.S. attorneys be fired. NPR now has new information about that plan. According to someone who's had conversations with White House officials, the plan to fire all 93 U.S. attorneys ...
The Bush administration's terrible luck with finding documents
Post Date: 2007-04-14 00:11:32 by nolu_chan
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Thursday April 12, 2007 11:14 EST The Bush administration's terrible luck with finding documents The administration's claim that it lost potentially thousands of e-mails relating to the U.S. attorneys scandal is merely the latest in a series of similar incidents. Glenn Greenwald Apr. 12, 2007 | (Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V - Update VI) I feel -- in this vaguely intuitive sort of way -- as though there is some kind of a pattern buried within this set of facts, but as much as I search, I just can't quite figure out what it might be: New York Times, today: Political advisers to President Bush may have improperly used their Republican ...
White House Seeks Boost to Spy Powers
Post Date: 2007-04-13 17:54:47 by Brian S
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(04-13) 14:26 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration asked Congress Friday to allow monitoring of more foreigners in the United States during intelligence investigations. The plan is one of several proposed changes, which have been in the works for more than a year, that go to the heart of a key U.S. surveillance law. The administration says the changes are intended to help the government better address national security threats by updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to bring it into line with rapid changes in communications technology. Civil liberties groups see the government's effort as a needless power grab. The proposal would revise the way the ...
Karl Rove visits Portland area, and police prepare for protests (FUNDRAISER)
Post Date: 2007-04-13 17:10:00 by aristeides
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Karl Rove visits Portland area, and police prepare for protests Posted by The Oregonian April 13, 2007 11:34AM Karl RoveRepublicans in Washington County are aflutter today, police are scrambling and lefty bloggers are ablaze over the visit to the Portland area of Karl Rove, one of the White House's most controversial figures. President Bush's chief political strategist is scheduled to give a talk in Tigard that's organized by the Washington County GOP. The "grassroots reception" -- for people wearing "business attire, please" -- is designed to help funnel funds into local GOP coffers. At $60 a pop, the event quickly sold out. According to Tigard police, ...
We're living in a surveillance society [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-13 13:18:09 by intotheabyss
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We can't say we weren't warned. In his dark novel, 1984, George Orwell predicted a nightmare society, where cameras and computers spy on citizens' every move, writes The Marlborough Express in an editorial. Now comes a newspaper report from Britain where it says there are 32 closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras within 200m of Orwell's former home in Islington North London. Britain has become the extreme case of the surveillance society, with latest studies showing the country has an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country. And New Zealand's privacy commissioner, Marie Shroff, has added her warning to the growth of the ...
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