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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Widow of Houston Officer Killed by Illegal Immigrant 'Shocked' at ICE Appointment ['shocked' to learn the city's former police chief, a 'sanctuary city' supporter, has landed a top immigration job with the Obama administration.]
Post Date: 2010-06-25 23:26:26 by WhiteSands
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The widow of a Houston police officer killed by an illegal immigrant was "shocked" to learn that the city's former police chief has landed a top immigration job with the Obama administration, her lawyer told FoxNews.com on Friday. That's because Joslyn Johnson, whose husband, Rodney Johnson, was killed in 2006, is suing former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt for failing to enforce federal immigration laws. She claims her husband would be alive today if the city had bothered to check up on the gunman's immigration status. Now that Hurtt is taking a job to oversee partnerships between federal and local officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Johnson -- ...
The Facts about the Jones Act and the Gulf Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-06-25 14:08:26 by war
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Response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf has brought the Jones Act into the news. Some are saying that the Act is somehow hindering the spill recovery efforts. The Maritime Cabotage Task Force has put together the following document to separate fact from fiction: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE JONES ACT AND THE GULF OIL SPILL WHAT IS THE JONES ACT? The "Jones Act" refers to several provisions of federal law that reserve certain maritime services within American domestic waters for U.S.-built, U.S.-owned, and U.S.-crewed vessels. Almost every nation has similar laws, which are known as cabotage laws. The primary purpose of a cabotage law is to draw a ...
Supreme Court Refuses To Keep Petitioner IDs Private
Post Date: 2010-06-24 13:20:04 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who sign petitions calling for public votes on controversial subjects don't have an automatic right to hide their names, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday as it sided against Washington state voters worried about harassment because of their desire to repeal that state's gay rights law. The high court ruled against Protect Marriage Washington, which organized a petition drive for a public vote to repeal the state's "everything-but-marriage" gay rights law. Petition signers wanted to hide their names because of worries of intimidation. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused to keep their names secret. The Supreme ...
High Court Sides With Ex-Enron CEO Skilling
Post Date: 2010-06-24 13:18:43 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prosecutors erred in using a certain federal fraud statute to convict former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, but left it to a lower appeals court to determine whether his conviction should be overturned. The justices were unanimous in imposing limits on the use of the "honest services" fraud law that has been a favorite of white-collar crime prosecutors. The law has been criticized as vague, subjecting people to prosecution for mistakes and minor transgressions in the business and political worlds. Skilling asked that it be struck down as unconstitutional. But the court, in an opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ...
BP Spill May Be Less Than Doomsayers Think: Tadeusz W. Patzek
Post Date: 2010-06-23 07:30:16 by war
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June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Two months have passed since the blowout of the BP Plc exploratory Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. Much more is now known about a string of fateful decisions taken in the course of drilling this well. Individually, none of BP’s decisions would have caused the blowout, but their confluence led almost inevitably to the largest oil-related tragedy in U.S. history. Eleven people have died, a whole coastal region of the Gulf of Mexico has been devastated and it is uncertain that BP will survive the ordeal. There is some good news, however: Most of the oil and gas spewing from the failed well is now being captured by BP engineers. Here is why. On June 17, video ...
US Supreme Court lifts ban on sale of GM crop
Post Date: 2010-06-21 11:27:42 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, USA — The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops. A district court judge in California in May 2007 blocked the US biotech giant Monsanto from selling alfalfa seeds that it had genetically modified to resist its Roundup weed killer. The ruling was upheld on appeal in 2009, but Monsanto went to the Supreme Court arguing that any decision should have awaited the findings of a study by the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). "Until APHIS seeks to effect a partial deregulation, any judicial review of such a ...
Florida Homeowners Lose Beach Dispute At High Court
Post Date: 2010-06-17 12:05:12 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Florida can undertake beach-widening projects without paying beachfront property owners who lose exclusive access to the water. The court, by an 8-0 vote, rejected a challenge by six homeowners in Florida's Panhandle who argued that a beach-widening project changed their oceanfront property into oceanview. Justice John Paul Stevens took no part in the case in which the court affirmed an earlier ruling. Private property advocates had hoped the court would rule for the first time that a court decision can amount to a taking of property. The court's four conservatives - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, ...
New Hampshire Fires First Shot Of Civil War by passing Resolution Immediately Voiding ...
Post Date: 2010-06-17 09:50:38 by Murron
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New Hampshire Fires First Shot Of Civil War by passing Resolution Immediately Voiding ... New Hampshire Fires First Shot Of Civil War by passing Resolution Immediately Voiding Several Federal Laws, Threatens Counterstrike Against Federal "Breach Of Peace" By Pat Dollard. The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step Monday by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to completely totally void and warning that certain future acts will be viewed as a "breach of peace" with the states themselves that risks nullifying the Constitution." This act by New Hampshire is a clear warning to the federal government ...
To Save the Constitution, Liberals Must First Destroy It
Post Date: 2010-06-14 12:14:22 by Badeye
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To Save the Constitution, Liberals Must First Destroy It Posted by Gregg Opelka Jun 14th 2010 at 6:58 am Wilder Publications, a small publishing company based in Redford Va., is offering on Amazon.com a rather unusual compendium of The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation. The Wilder edition of our country’s founding documents comes complete with a prefatory warning label: This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was ...
Lieberman Bill Gives Feds ‘Emergency’ Powers to Secure Civilian Nets
Post Date: 2010-06-04 12:57:59 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Lieberman Bill Gives Feds ‘Emergency’ Powers to Secure Civilian Nets • Wired Joe Lieberman wants to give the federal government the power to take over civilian networks’ security, if there’s an “imminent cyber threat.” It’s part of a draft bill, co-sponsored by Senators Lieberman and Susan Collins, that provides the Department of Homeland Security broad authority to ensure that “critical infrastructure” stays up and running in the face of a looming hack attack. Read Full Story
OBAMA'S ILLEGAL ALIEN LEGAL CHALLENGE
Post Date: 2010-06-04 12:31:15 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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ILLEGAL ALIEN LEGAL CHALLENGELittle noticed, last Friday the Obama administration yet again tried to make it easier for illegal aliens to stay in the United States, says economist and author John R. Lott, Jr. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, the administration asked the court to carve out a special exemption for businesses that break the law by hiring illegal aliens. In every state, individuals must have a business license to do a huge range of jobs, be it a restaurant, stores, salvage, selling cars, cleaning people's houses, pest control or other businesses. But people must get a criminal background check to get a license. Different states vary in terms ...
Ruling on Defense Request for Witnesses and Evidence in LTC Lakin's court-martial - 6/1/2010
Post Date: 2010-06-04 11:34:45 by Skip Intro
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Ruling on Defense Request for Witnesses and Evidence in LTC Lakin's court-martial - 6/1/2010
Poster Comment:Looks like Lakin's really screwed the pooch on this. He should have used a real lawyer, like Orly.
With Elena Kagan - “We’ll have a gay ole time…”
Post Date: 2010-06-04 10:04:25 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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“We’ll have a gay ole time…” Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 90, will retire at the end of this court session. Then the Socialist-in-Chief will have the opportunity to transform the nation’s highest court into a left-wing oppressor of individual rights that will extend his damage to the country decades beyond his one term. The tea leaves indicate that Obama’s nominee will be Elena Kagan, the uber dyke U.S. Solicitor General and former dean of Harvard Law School, who has never served as a judge and her Harvard gig was mostly fund-raising. Does it matter? Some would say “no”; I believe that is a naive, short-sighted and thoughtless ...
Liberal Groups Want FCC to Police Talk Radio, Cable News - Limbaugh and FOX News
Post Date: 2010-06-04 09:29:53 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Newsmax Liberal Groups Want FCC to Police Talk Radio, Cable News Wednesday, June 2, 2010 03:14 PM By: Jim Meyers A coalition of more than 30 mostly liberal organizations has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to monitor “hate speech” on talk radio and cable news networks. The groups assert in the letter that “hate, extremism and misinformation have been on the rise . . . as the media has focused on Arizona’s passage of one of the harshest pieces of anti-Latino legislation in this country’s history.” The organizations include the Center for Media Justice, the Rainbow Push Coalition, the League of United Latin American ...
Justice Dept. Challenges Arizona Over Other Immigration Law Targeting Employers [ overturn an appeals court decision that upheld Arizona's right to punish employers for hiring illegal immigrants.]
Post Date: 2010-06-04 03:55:11 by WhiteSands
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The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that upheld Arizona's right to punish employers for hiring illegal immigrants. The Arizona law gives the state the right to suspend or terminate business licenses. "If you hire a person in this country illegally knowingly, you'll lose your license. First offense, 10 days. Second offense, revocation, never to do business in the state of Arizona again," said Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican who helped draft the new controversial Arizona law that cracks down on illegal immigrants. The Obama administration apparently worries letting that law stand would leave in place a ...
Are Cameras the New Guns? In At Least Three States, It Is Illegal To Record Any On-Duty Police Officer
Post Date: 2010-06-03 12:52:25 by Brian S
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In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer. Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists. The legal justification for arresting the "shooter" rests on existing wiretapping or eavesdropping laws, with statutes against obstructing law enforcement sometimes cited. Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland are among the 12 states in which all parties must consent for a recording to be legal unless, as ...
A Gun For Grandpa
Post Date: 2010-06-03 11:41:09 by Badeye
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A Gun For Grandpa Posted 06/02/2010 06:37 PM ET Second Amendment: Chicago is deciding whether to prosecute a great-grandfather and Korean War veteran under its handgun ban. He refused to be a victim, and now there's one less armed thug roaming the streets. What's the problem? If the 80-year-old vet living on the city's West Side didn't have the gun the city said he shouldn't have, he and his 83-year-old wife and 12-year-old great-grandson might have joined those victims of gun violence about whom gun-control advocates constantly chirp. The vet obtained the gun in violation of the city's handgun ban after a prior incident in which the couple was robbed at ...
EDITORIAL: The administration's immigration radicalism
Post Date: 2010-06-03 10:44:19 by Badeye
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EDITORIAL: The administration's immigration radicalism Solicitor general asks Supreme Court to rewrite the law By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 9:38 p.m., Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Obama administration wants to use the Supreme Court to enact an immigration agenda so radical that even the Democratic majority in Congress doesn't want to touch it. In a brief to the Supreme Court last Friday, acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal argued that one type of unlawful conduct must never be considered when denying business and professional licenses. The special exemption is for crimes involving those who illegally sneak over the border. States traditionally have had the power to limit the ability of ...
US military chief cautions on gay ban repeal (CYA ALL THE WAY)
Post Date: 2010-05-31 08:58:02 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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US military chief cautions on gay ban repeal The top US military officer cautioned that it was crucial to get the military's views at the ground level before implementing a repeal of a law banning gays from serving openly in the military. Admiral Michael Mullen, pictured on May 18, reaffirmed his support for repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", but he stressed that Pentagon certification that the military was ready to implement it was "key." The top US military officer cautioned Sunday that it was crucial to get the military's views at the ground level before implementing a repeal of a law banning gays from serving openly in the military. Admiral Michael ...
Ron Paul "has some reservations" about Arizona SB 1070
Post Date: 2010-05-28 22:34:41 by WhiteSands
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Appearing on the Alex Jones radio show May 26th discussing a variety of issues, Congressman Ron Paul said that he 'had some reservations' about Arizona's new immigration law, SB 1070. 'I have some reservations about that law, but not its' intent', remarked the former presidential candidate and libertarian icon, whose son Rand Paul just won the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Paul is not the first conservative libertarian to voice concerns about the law. Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano disagreed with the law and predicted it would be ruled unconstitutional in the courts. Arizona's Earnest Hancock, a longtime libertarian activist and ...
In Ultrasound, Abortion Fight Has New Front
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:19:51 by war
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — “It’s going to be cold, and some pressure, O.K.?” The medical assistant guided the gelled ultrasound transducer across the pregnant woman’s belly. The patient, a 36-year-old divorced woman named Laura, stared straight ahead, away from the grainy image on the screen to her side. The technician told Laura she was at 11 weeks. “Do you want to see your ultrasound?” she asked. “I’d rather not,” Laura answered promptly. Laura, who asked that her last name not be used, had come to the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic in Birmingham with her mind set on having an abortion. And she felt that seeing the image of her ...
Non-Enforcement of Laws Works Both Ways; Jurors can Shut Down Obama Agenda
Post Date: 2010-05-22 21:49:52 by WhiteSands
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Citizens can refuse to enforce laws enacted or supported by the Obama Regime by Bill Levinson Top Official Says Feds May Not Process Illegals Referred From Arizona reports that the Obama Administration will now refuse to enforce our country’s immigration laws in Arizona. A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities. …”ICE has the legal discretion to accept or not to accept persons delivered to it by non-federal personnel,” Napolitano said. “It also has the discretion to deport or not to deport persons delivered to it by any government agents, even ...
House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database
Post Date: 2010-05-19 23:22:58 by Brian S
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Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. By a 357 to 32 vote, the House approved legislation that will pay state governments to require DNA samples, which could mean drawing blood with a needle, from adults "arrested for" certain serious crimes. Not one Democrat voted against the database measure, which would hand out about $75 million to states that agree to make such testing mandatory. "We should allow law enforcement to use all the technology available to them...to reduce expensive and unjust ...
Napolitano Admits She Hasn't Read Arizona Immigration Law in 'Detail'
Post Date: 2010-05-18 15:21:44 by WhiteSands
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted Monday that she has not read the controversial Arizona immigration law even though she's gone on television to criticize it, and continued to assert that it was "bad law enforcement law." The admission comes after Attorney General Eric Holder, who earlier warned the law could create a "slippery slope" toward racial profiling, told a House committee last week that he had not read the bill either. On Tuesday, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said he too had not read the bill, even as he defended diplomatic official Michael Posner for comparing the law to Chinese human rights violations. Napolitano ...
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