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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Finally ... an actual hearing --- on eligibility
Post Date: 2012-01-27 16:07:44 by BorisY
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Finally, an actual hearing on eligibility For four long years, compelling evidence has been available that challenges the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to occupy the White House. In fact, I would say the evidence that he does not meet the simple requirements of the law is overwhelming. But it was not until Thursday that the evidence – any of it – was heard in a single courtroom in America. Not until very recently has any of it been examined by any official public proceeding or reviewed by any agency of government. They say the wheels of justice grind slowly, but this is ridiculous. The good news for the rule of law is what happened in a Georgia courtroom ...
Police Use of GPS to Track Suspects’ Cars Is Limited by U.S. Supreme Court
Post Date: 2012-01-23 12:44:36 by Brian S
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The U.S. Supreme Court (1000L) put new limits on the power of police to track criminal suspects’ cars using GPS signals, ruling for the first time on the constitutional implications of the increasingly common devices. Today’s decision addresses the unprecedented power technology is giving police to peer into Americans’ day-to-day activities. The justices unanimously overturned the drug conviction of Antoine Jones, while splintering in their reasoning. Writing for the five-justice majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said police officers “encroached on a protected area” when they attached a global-positioning system device to Jones’ car without a valid warrant. ...
In 2006, Gingrich Backed Censoring The Web
Post Date: 2012-01-22 17:34:03 by Brian S
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By JOSH GERSTEIN | 1/21/12 5:30 PM EST At Thursday night's debate in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich painted himself as a friend of a free and open Internet, but in the past he's talked up pretty radical proposals to curtail free speech online. The question Thursday was about the Stop Online Piracy Act, legislation that has the support of the entertainment industry and powerful members of the House and Senate, but is now on life support after running into a firestorm of criticism from Internet users, tech companies like Google, and activists who shut down websites in protest earlier this week. "You have virtually everybody who's technologically advanced, including, you ...
Doctors vs. Obamacare: Can your physician simply ‘opt-out’?
Post Date: 2012-01-17 19:51:55 by CZ82
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Doctors vs. Obamacare: Can your physician simply ‘opt-out’? Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Medicine and Politics in America by Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., MBA SAN DIEGO, January 17, 2012 -- The destruction of quality in the American medical system will not result from one isolated event. Neither the ‘Affordable Care Act’, its restricted pay to physicians, nor even rationed care will immediately tip the scales toward a subpar medical system. Rather, the turn for the worse will take effect as several pieces of the Obamacare puzzle are set into motion over the next few years. One piece of this puzzle likely to work against the success of Obamacare will be the creation of ...
NYPD, Feds Testing Gun-Scanning Technology, But Civil Liberties Groups Up In Arms
Post Date: 2012-01-17 18:50:51 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The NYPD is stepping up their war against illegal guns, with a new tool that could detect weapons on someone as they walk down the street. But is it violating your right to privacy? Police, along with the U.S. Department of Defense, are researching new technology in a scanner placed on police vehicles that can detect concealed weapons. “You could use it at a specific event. You could use it at a shooting-prone location,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS 2′s Hazel Sanchez on Tuesday. It’s called Terahertz Imaging Detection. It measures the energy radiating from a body up to 16 feet away, and can detect anything blocking it, like a gun. ...
High Court Rejects Appeals On Public Prayers, Student Speech
Post Date: 2012-01-17 17:55:37 by Brian S
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Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a North Carolina county that had regularly opened its public meetings with Christian prayers. The church-state dispute is a victory for two Forsyth County residents who brought suit against the Board of Commissioners. Janet Joyner and Constance Lynn Blackmon were represented in their court challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "When government meetings are opened regularly with Christian prayer, it sends the unmistakable message that non-Christians are second-class citizens in their own community," said the Rev. Barry Lynn, who heads ...
The strange birth of NY’s gun laws
Post Date: 2012-01-16 18:50:44 by Mad Dog
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Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of firearms they had legal permits to carry back home. All were “nabbed” when they naively sought to check the weapon with security. These innocents fell afoul of the nation’s toughest gun laws. But few New Yorkers know how those laws came to be. The father of New York gun control was Democratic city pol “Big Tim “Sullivan — a state senator and Tammany Hall crook, a criminal overseer of the gangs of New York. In 1911 — in the wake of a notorious Gramercy Park blueblood ...
From the Right To Resist the 'Duty To Submit'
Post Date: 2012-01-14 12:20:51 by Fibr Dog
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Anne Dekins was a loud-mouthed party girl – or at least, that's what the arrest warrant suggested. Whatever she may have done in the past, Miss Dekins was quietly minding her own business when Officer Samuel Bray found her on the street and began to haul her away. Dekins wasn’t inclined to go quietly, and she put up a struggle. Her cries for help attracted the interest of several armed men led by an individual named Tooley, who confronted Bray and demanded to know what he was doing to the frantic woman. The officer produced his official credentials and insisted that he was making a lawful arrest for "disorderly conduct." When witnesses disputed that description, ...
Virginia
Post Date: 2012-01-13 19:29:47 by Mad Dog
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A collection consisting exclusively of war-songs would give an imperfect, or rather an erroneous, notion of the spirit of the old Latin ballads. The Patricians, during more than a century after the expulsion of the Kings, held all the high military commands. A Plebeian, even though, like Lucius Siccius, he were distinguished by his valor and knowledge of war, could serve only in subordinate posts. A minstrel, therefore, who wished to celebrate the early triumphs of his country, could hardly take any but Patricians for his heroes. The warriors who are mentioned in the two preceding lays, Horatius, Lartius, Herminius, Aulus Posthumius, Æbutius Elva, Sempronius Atratinus, Valerius ...
Lays of Ancient Rome: Horatius.
Post Date: 2012-01-13 17:04:23 by Mad Dog
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Lays of Ancient Rome: Horatius. By Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babington . A lay made about the year of the city 360 Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array. East and west and south and north The messengers ride fast, And tower and town and cottage Have heard the trumpet's blast. Shame on the false Etruscan Who lingers in his home, When Porsena of Clusium Is on the march for Rome. The horsemen and the footmen Are pouring in amain, From many a stately market-place; From many ...
First NDAA; Now Enemy Expatriation Act
Post Date: 2012-01-13 09:41:56 by Hondo68
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On the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Act,” comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for virtually any reason it deems necessary. Stephen D. Foster, Jr. has the story. “Congress is considering HR 3166 and S. 1698 also known as the Enemy Expatriation Act, sponsored by Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Charles Dent (R-PA). This bill would give the US government the power to strip Americans of their citizenship without being convicted of being ‘hostile’ against the United States. In other words, you can be stripped of ...
Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
Post Date: 2012-01-12 19:28:39 by Happy Quanzaa
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STANFORD, Calif.--President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said. That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates, including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and ...
The Enemy Expatriation Act … by Michael LeMieux
Post Date: 2012-01-12 01:34:02 by Capitalist Eric
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Directly on the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), that arguably makes US Citizens detainable by the military, comes the coup de grace in the form of a new bill called the “Enemy Expatriation Act.” But before I get into this bill let me preface that with a few observations. First, our nation was founded upon the principle of individual liberty and self-determination. This is the belief that all men were created equal and endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights imbued within each of us at the time of our birth. We did not, and do not, derive our rights from government and therefore cannot legally have them taken from us by that government. ...
DMV: 900 Dead People May Have Voted
Post Date: 2012-01-11 16:53:30 by Capitalist Eric
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Columbia, SC (AP, WLTX) -- The director of South Carolina's Department of Motor Vehicles has told the State Law Enforcement Division that more than 900 people who were recorded as having voted were actually dead. DMV Director Kevin Shwedo told legislators about the issue Wednesday as the U.S. Justice Department questions a new state law requiring people to show photographic identification when they vote in person. In response, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson asked SLED to review the evidence. "Director Shwedo's research has revealed evidence that over nine hundred deceased people appear to have 'voted' in recent elections in South Carolina," said ...
Allen West: GOP Must Stop Obama’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ Read more on Newsmax.com: Allen West: GOP Must Stop Obama’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!
Post Date: 2012-01-10 15:57:12 by Mad Dog
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. Congressman Allen West tells Newsmax that President Barack Obama has “complete contempt” for Congress and is starting to believe that he has an “imperial presidency.” The Florida Republican says Newt Gingrich is the “smartest” GOP candidate but thinks any of the Republican hopefuls can beat Obama in what undoubtedly will be a “brutal bloodbath.” West also asserts that sanctions will not succeed in deterring Iran’s belligerency and warns that the United States should not cut the defense budget to make the military the “bill-payer” for Washington’s failure to rein in spending. West, who was elected in 2010, is a member of the ...
In Three Minutes, Romney Takes Three Different Positions On Whether Contraception Is Protected By The Constitution
Post Date: 2012-01-10 13:31:29 by Brian S
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Last week, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed that a pair of Supreme Court decisions establishing the constitutional right to use contraception were wrongly decided. In Saturday’s GOP presidential candidates debate, moderator George Stephanopoulos asked former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) whether he agrees with Santorum. During the awkward three minutes that followed, Romney managed to give three completely different answers: He Doesn’t Know: Romney initially pleaded ignorance, claiming “I don’t whether a state has a right to ban contraception” and even asking Stephanopoulous whether the Supreme Court has weighed in on this issue. As Stephanopoulous pointed ...
BREAKING: 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals Declares Oklahoma’s Sharia Ban Unconstitutional
Post Date: 2012-01-10 13:28:28 by Brian S
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The 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals struck down Oklahoma’s ban on Sharia law today, declaring that the Sooner State’s move violated the United States Constitution. In November 2010, Oklahoma voters approved a ballot initiative to prevent Sharia law from being used in the state, something that even the measure’s defenders could not identify ever happening. (To learn more about what Sharia law actually is, read this brief primer.) Following Oklahoma’s lead, Sharia hysteria soon made its way to other states – including Arizona, Louisiana, and Tennessee – orchestrated by a small group of anti-Muslims misinformation experts we profiled in a report entitled Fear Inc.: ...
The Ultimate Consumer Protection [Ron Paul]
Post Date: 2012-01-10 13:20:47 by Capitalist Eric
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This week, partisan games in Washington reached a fevered pitch as Congress acted to prevent recess appointments, yet the administration made them anyway. Congress has been gaveling into session for less than a minute every three days for the express purpose of technically staying in session. The 40 second "pro forma" sessions may strike supporters of the President as obstructionist, but Congress was using its clear constitutional authority and playing by the rules. Frustrated, the President simply disregarded the Constitution, and appointed Richard Cordray as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Board, and Sharon Block, Richard Griffin, and Terence Flynn to the National ...
Why the Wealthy Own Gold
Post Date: 2012-01-09 16:16:03 by Mad Dog
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The global economy is in turmoil. Europe is on the verge of collapse, probably taking the US down with it. As the euro-crisis worsens, we march ever closer to outright monetization of European debt by the ECB and, covertly, by the Federal Reserve. The developed world is perilously close to a monetary deluge that could make the Weimar Republic's hyperinflation look like amateur hour. Yet, I still talk to Wall Street analysts who clearly misunderstand gold's place in a portfolio. Meanwhile, many people who are part of the world's wealthy class are hoarding gold. What do they know that others don't? If you ask the common man in the street about investing in gold, most will ...
The Origins of the Modern American Conservative Movement
Post Date: 2012-01-08 17:09:32 by Mad Dog
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... Russell Kirk and The Conservative Mind It is a striking historical coincidence that both the People's Republic of China and the modern American conservative movement were born a little over 50 years ago, the PRC in 1949 with the coming to power of Mao Zedung and modern conservatism in 1953 with the publication of Russell Kirk's masterwork, The Conservative Mind. Chairman Mao famously declared that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. While that may be true for certain regimes in certain circumstances, such political power cannot be sustained permanently, for it requires ever larger barrels and ever more guns. Political power that depends exclusively for its ...
Rolling Back Civilian Disarmament Laws in America
Post Date: 2012-01-08 09:38:28 by Capitalist Eric
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Firearms freedom is on the march across America. In recent years, there have been many legislative successes for American gun owners, and I'm pleased to report that some of the best have been in the American Redoubt states. Onerous gun laws that had placed too much arbitrary discretion hands of a few political appointees have been rolled back. Meanwhile, "Castle Doctrine" and "Stand Your Ground" laws have been enacted, and strong assertions of State Sovereignty have been enacted. This animated graphic from the Wiki world, showing the advance of non-discretionary ("Shall issue") CCW permits, is guaranteed to make Chuck Schumer and the other rabid gun ...
ACLU: Obama Will Forever Be Known As The President That Signed Indefinite Detention Into Law
Post Date: 2012-01-06 19:06:36 by Hondo68
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The Young Turks breaks down Obama’s actions in signing indefinite detention into law.
Poster Comment:Is O'bungler now worse than Bush? They're neck and neck behind Lincoln for the worst prez, IMO. It's only his fist term, more to come if the GOP nominates a neocon.
Even Obama Agrees that the Senate Was Not in Recess
Post Date: 2012-01-06 00:23:45 by A K A Stone
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http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/05/even-obama-agrees-that-the-senate-was-not-in-recess/ Defenders of President Obama’s unprecedented “recess” appointments of Richard Cordray to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three members to the National Labor Relations Board argue that the Constitution is vague on when Congress is in session and that the President can therefore take a “functionalist” approach that considers whether the Senate is available to vote on nominations. Yet even the President doesn’t buy that argument. Proof is that on December 23, President Obama signed a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. He said that Congress passed ...
Obama defies Senate, appointing consumer, labor officials [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-01-04 23:22:22 by Mad Dog
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WASHINGTON — A defiant President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress on Wednesday and appointed a new consumer watchdog, locking horns with Republicans, who immediately accused the president of exceeding his authority to appoint a director to an agency they oppose. Speaking at a high school in the election battleground state of Ohio with his nominee for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by his side, Obama struck a populist tone and blamed congressional Republicans for stalling the appointment of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as “America’s consumer watchdog.” “I’ve got an obligation to act on behalf of the American people,” the ...
Ron Paul’s Soros Defense Plan
Post Date: 2012-01-02 15:36:09 by Mad Dog
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It was recently observed that Ron Paul was to the left of Obama on national security and the best evidence for that statement can be found when one year ago Ron Paul joined forces with Barney Frank on a proposal to gut national defense via a panel of experts, quite a few of whom were tied to George Soros. In July 2010, Barney Frank and Ron Paul co-authored a Huffington Post article rolling out their Sustainable Defense Task Force. The Task Force “consisting of experts on military expenditures that span the ideological spectrum” would recommend a trillion dollars in defense cuts. The experts, however, didn’t quite “span the ideological spectrum” — more like ...
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