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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
LTC Lakin Court-Martial Update--Judge Denies Defense Motions
Post Date: 2010-09-28 20:58:32 by Skip Intro
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LTC Lakin Court-Martial Update--Judge Denies Defense Motions One of our 3L student interns who is also an Army veteran made the trek up I-295 today to watch the latest hearing in the strange case of LTC Terrence Lakin, the Army doctor who refused to obey various orders related to a deployment to Afghanistan. At today's court-martial session, the defense and trial counsel argued a number of motions. The defense first argued that the military judge should abate the court-martial until the Army Court of Criminal Appeals rules on a writ petition the defense inexplicably ("for reasons I can't get into right now," according to a defense counsel) filed just yesterday, in ...
An Artist Protests Obama’s Abuse of the Constitution (Video) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-19 12:31:01 by Murron
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An Artist Protests Obama’s Abuse of the Constitution (Video) Author: Brian Bolduc Artist & Narrator: Jon McNaughton A man, crestfallen, is sitting on a bench in front of the White House, contemplating his country’s future. At his feet lie the causes of his distress: tattered dollars, representing a weak currency, and scraps of paper, symbolizing an abused Constitution. Behind and around him stand the 43 presidents of the United States, most of whom are outraged. One of them, James Madison, reaches pitifully for the ground, trying to collect the shards of American greatness. Unfortunately, he can’t retrieve our founding document from the dust, for it’s beneath the ...
Hazleton, PA, Ordinance On Illegal Immigration Struck Down By Federal Appeals Court
Post Date: 2010-09-09 15:26:00 by Brian S
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The 3rd U.S. Court of Appeals just struck down the city of Hazleton's ordinance to crackdown on landlords and employers who'd rent or hire an illegal immigrant. "It is ... not our job to sit in judgment of whether state and local frustration about federal immigration policy is warranted. We are, however, required to intervene when states and localities directly undermine the federal objectives embodied in statutes enacted by Congress," wrote Chief Judge Theodore McKee. The unanimous decision has been widely awaited since oral arguments concluded in October 2008 in Philadelphia. The Hazleton battle is viewed by many as a crucial test of whether such ordinances can pass ...
US Appeals Court: Judges Can Demand Warrant For Police To Get Cell Phone Tracking Data
Post Date: 2010-09-07 19:39:04 by Brian S
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Judges have the right to require warrants before police get cell phone records that could suggest a customer's likely location, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a novel electronic privacy case. The Pennsylvania case involves the government's interest in records that show a caller's location during past calls. Cell phone tower records can pinpoint a user's location to within several hundred feet. Judges in a Pittsburgh drug case had insisted that federal agents get a warrant for the data. The usage patterns could show when a phone customer is typically home, at work or at some other location, they said. The government appealed, arguing that the ...
ACLU Sues To Stop Suspicionless Searches Of Electronics
Post Date: 2010-09-07 14:57:49 by Brian S
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Civil rights lawyers sued the government Tuesday to stop authorities from snooping in the laptops, cell phones and cameras of international travelers without probable cause. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against the Department of Homeland Security as well as U.S. customs and immigration authorities. The government did not immediately return a message seeking comment. The lawsuit says more than 6,500 people have had their electronic devices searched as they crossed U.S. borders since October 2008. Nearly half of those searched were U.S. citizens. In May, a graduate student in Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal was detained for several hours as his ...
BREAKING: MARINER SAYS EXPLOSION ON OIL, GAS PRODUCTION PLATFORM IN GULF OF MEXICO
Post Date: 2010-09-02 11:32:57 by war
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No article yet...just headline...
Don’t Tread On Me’ Flags Start Disputes Around the Country
Post Date: 2010-09-02 00:13:53 by Murron
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Don’t Tread On Me’ Flags Start Disputes Around the Country An Arizona man is in trouble with his homeowners' association over flying the Gadsden flag, which features a coiled rattlesnake and the words "Don't Tread on Me." The flag has been adopted by members of the tea party movement for its association with the American Revolution, but Andy McDonel tells the New York Times that he has hung the flag from his roof simply for its historical significance. Watch a report on the dispute from Fox News: Arizona has a state statute that allows Arizonans to fly "the Stars and Stripes, the state flag, flags representing Indian nations as well as the ...
Magistrate Recommends Dismissal Of Lawsuit By States Seeking Freedom From Federal Gun Laws
Post Date: 2010-09-01 19:27:41 by Brian S
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HELENA, Mont. - A group of states seeking freedom from federal gun laws were dealt a blow Wednesday when a federal magistrate recommended dismissal of a lawsuit launched by gun rights advocates who argue Congress has overstepped its bounds with gun control. The magistrate sided with the U.S. Department of Justice, which says courts have already decided that Congress can set standards on such items as guns through its power to regulate interstate commerce. The recommendation now goes to the federal judge in Missoula hearing the case — and even gun rights advocates recognized it is likely he will side with the magistrate. The issue was launched last year with "firearm freedoms ...
Health Care Reform Hypocrisy: States Suing Government Willing To Claim Subsidies From Law
Post Date: 2010-08-31 12:04:58 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Some states suing to toss out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law are also lining up to claim a share of its subsidies for the medical costs of retired employees. An administration official said Tuesday seven states suing the federal government are among 16 already approved for subsidies to help with the health care costs of early retirees. The seven are Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska and Nevada. The official spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of Tuesday's official announcement. About 2,000 employers have been approved for the extra help, mainly private businesses. More applications are pending. Interested employers ...
Orly Pays Up (or does she?)
Post Date: 2010-08-28 16:34:44 by Skip Intro
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However, a sharp eyed observer notes the following: "Faked check. There’s no seal. The name is not printed as Dr. Orly Taitz. Esq. as she has declared on numerous legal filings. The signature is highly suspect. We’re going to need to see the routing number with account to verify this is actually her account and not drawn from the estate of a deceased person from Rhode Island. Affidavits from interested parties who are experts in banking fraud are forthcoming. And a web posting is no proof of authenticity. An anonymous expert in forgery has volunteered to swear under oath that this is a counterfeit document. This is an obvious attempt to defraud the DOJ, a deceased ...
The Nazification of the United States
Post Date: 2010-08-28 10:18:13 by Capitalist Eric
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Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce one of the most important articles of our time, “Obama’s US Assassination Program.” It seems only yesterday that Americans, or those interested in their civil liberties, were shocked that the Bush regime so flagrantly violated the FISA law against spying on American citizens without a warrant. A federal judge serving on the FISA court even resigned in protest to the illegality of the spying. Nothing was done about it. “National security” placed the president and executive branch above the law of the land. Civil libertarians worried ...
Van-Mounted Body Scanners Coming To A Street Near You?
Post Date: 2010-08-26 13:28:44 by Brian S
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digg_url = "http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0825/van-mounted-body-scanners-streets/"; digg_title = "Van-mounted body scanners coming to a street near you?"; US law enforcement agencies are among the customers of a Massachusetts-based company that is selling full-body scanners to be mounted inside vans and used on streets, says a report from Forbes.American Science & Engineering, based in Billerica, Mass., told Forbes blogger Andy Greenberg that it has sold more than 500 "Z Backscatter Vans," mobile x-ray scanning units that can be used to detect bombs, contraband and smuggled people inside nearby cars.The company says its largest customer by far is the US ...
Republicans Hot, Cold On Defending Constitution - Depending On What's At Stake
Post Date: 2010-08-23 12:48:05 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Paul Broun won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms. But it turns out there are parts of the document he doesn't care for — lots of them. He wants to get rid of the language about birthright citizenship, federal income taxes and direct election of senators, among others. He would add plenty of stuff, including explicitly authorizing castration as punishment for child rapists. This hot-and-cold take on the Constitution is surprisingly common within the Republican Party, particularly among those like Broun ...
Federal Court Rules Against Highway Crosses Honoring Fallen Police Officers
Post Date: 2010-08-19 13:04:22 by Brian S
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On Wednesday, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found the setting up of large crosses along roads in memory of Utah state troopers killed in the line of duty to be unconstitutional, maintaining that it violated the Establishment Clause. The Utah Highway Patrol Association, a private organization, started setting the crosses up in 1998. On each cross is the fallen officer’s name and rank and the Utah Highway Patrol insignia -- which the judges opined would lead to concerns about the state government promoting Christianity. Here we are 12 years later and American Atheists, an organization of more than 2,000 Americans looking to promote the separation of church and state, is still ...
Obama Has Shot 41 Rounds of Golf as President ("Let them eat cake" update!)
Post Date: 2010-08-19 10:11:04 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Obama Has Shot 41 Rounds of Golf as President
by Keith Koffler on July 16, 2010, 3:30 pm
President Barack Obama has played a remarkable 41 rounds of golf since becoming president, easily outpacing his predecessor and possibly damaging his ability to portray himself in 2012 as a populist advocate of average folks.
With the excursions lasting on average at least five hours, the president has devoted a total of more than 200 hours to golf, not counting time spent on the White House putting green. That’s the equivalent of twenty five eight-hour work days, or five work weeks spent smacking golf balls.
Obama plays golfThe former community organizer’s 41 trips around the links – a ...
Ray Bradbury's call for revolution
Post Date: 2010-08-19 01:51:24 by Mad Dog
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"Colored people don't like 'Little Black Sambo.' Burn it. White people don't feel good about 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country. Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn all, burn ...
Rogue Arizona Sheriff Refuses To Comply With Feds
Post Date: 2010-08-17 12:00:39 by Brian S
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio is at it again. A lawyer for the rogue Arizona sheriff who's staked his position as one of the most vociferous defenders of Arizona's new draconian immigration law now says his client will not comply with a request from the Feds to turn over documents related to a civil rights investigation. Arizona's new immigration law requires officers enforcing other laws to check a person's immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally. Critics have labeled it racial profiling, and the Obama Administration has taken moves to overrule it. Arpaio, who polices the most populous county in Arizona, has drawn national attention for his ...
This Just In: Civilization Ends [Absurd "Gay" Marriage Argument Srhredded]t
Post Date: 2010-08-10 14:22:36 by Liberator
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When do you know it's over? When do you know that civilization has collapsed inwardly to such an irreparable extent that the next stop is barbarism? When is that Weimar moment? Certainly, the legalization of abortion was one such moment, as barbarism is defined as the inability or unwillingness to recognize another person as a human being. Abortion is the denial of procreative sex by nullifying its effects, which are seen as accidental. If you have an accident and conceive a baby, you can just clean up the mess by aborting it. Now we are experiencing another Weimar moment, which also denies procreative sex by accepting sodomy as a morally normative act. It regards the embrace of ...
Government Takes Action Against Deadbeat Debtor Orly Taitz
Post Date: 2010-08-09 18:05:35 by Skip Intro
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Doc 42 Rhodes-v-MacDonald - Abstract of Judgment (Lien Agst Orly Taitz)
Ground Zero Mosque (Actually, Two-Blocks-from-Ground-Zero Mosque)
Post Date: 2010-08-09 15:24:40 by go65
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I don’t have anything helpful to say on the ethical, public relations, or interfaith amity questions raised by the ground zero mosque. Cathy Young takes one view, and I know there are others, but I leave that question to people who specialize more in such matters. But the legal issue is open and shut. The Free Exercise Clause means that the government may not discriminate against an entity because of its religious denomination. The Free Speech Clause means that the government generally may not discriminate an entity because of what it says or teaches (and that applies to discrimination against religious speakers as much as to discrimination against secular speakers). There are some ...
Kagan Takes Oath, Prepares For Several High-Profile Cases
Post Date: 2010-08-07 20:03:57 by Brian S
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Washington (CNN) -- Elena Kagan, building on a long, diverse legal career in government and academia, was officially sworn in as the 112th justice at the Supreme Court on Saturday, promising to "faithfully and impartially" discharge her new judicial duties. With friends, family and four of her new colleagues looking on, the 50-year-old Kagan took the judicial oath in the court's wood-paneled West Conference Room. It was only the second time such a ceremony was televised at the court. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the 62-word oath, required of all federal judges. In a private ceremony just moments before, Kagan took a separate constitutional oath across the hall. Both ...
The Dred Scott Republicans
Post Date: 2010-08-04 20:48:38 by Brian S
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You know, for a party that likes to wrap themselves in the Constitution, they sure do seem to want to obliterate it. We had the "Tenthers" screaming about state sovereignty. And the Tea Parties have called for the repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendment and a new 13th Amendment. Now, the Republicans have decided the key to electoral success this year is to take aim against the 14th Amendment. Let's just call them The Dred Scott Republicans: First Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), then Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), now Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is calling for congressional hearings on rescinding part of the 14th amendment to prevent anyone who is born in the U.S. from automatically ...
FAGGOT Judge Vaughn Walker Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents (CA-Gay Marriage Ban Overturned)
Post Date: 2010-08-04 16:56:07 by Brian S
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This afternoon U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in the case brought before him by lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies, which argued that the Proposition 8 ballot initiative denying marriage rights to same-sex couples in California was unconstitutional. In a decision just handed down to lawyers for both sides, Walker ruled that Proposition 8 is "unconstitutional under both the due process and equal protection clauses." The court, therefore, "orders entry of judgment permanently enjoining its enforcement." We're staying tuned for more updates and details on the 136-page decision, but these two sentences from the conclusion are critical:
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational ...
Missouri voters overwhelmingly reject federal mandate to buy health insurance
Post Date: 2010-08-04 11:50:21 by jwpegler
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Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March. "The citizens of the Show-Me State don't want Washington involved in their health care decisions," said Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, one of the sponsors of the legislation that put Proposition C on the August ballot. She credited a grass-roots campaign involving Tea Party and patriot groups with building support for the anti-Washington proposition. With most of the ...
Presidential Dictatorship: Not Thinking Things Through
Post Date: 2010-08-04 08:46:36 by NMC_EXP
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Some of Barack Obama's most impassioned conservative critics see him as an incipient dictator bent on radically transforming the United States into a socialist dystopia through the exercise of unfiltered executive power. Many of those same critics denounce Obama for being insufficiently ruthless in using arbitrary presidential power to kill and imprison people. Their plan, apparently, is to goad that incipient dictator into becoming a fully realized despot. Writing in Investor's Business Daily, attorney Ernest S. Christian and economist Gary A. Robbins -- the former a veteran of the Ford administration, the latter a Reagan administration alumnus -- tidily encapsulate the ...
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