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Americans at Odds With Recent Terror Trial Decisions

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:44:57 +0000

PRINCETON, NJ -- By 59% to 36%, more Americans believe accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military court, rather than in a civilian criminal court. Most Republicans and independents favor holding the trial in a military court, while the slight majority of ...

The Corner on National Review Online found this 37 hours ago on gallup.com

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The Pathology of Evil in Politics

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:22:00 +0000

Do purely evil individuals exist who can hide their true nature from the rest of the world? And are these individuals drawn into politics as a conduit for dominating an unsuspecting and acquiescent populace?

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 13 hours ago on americanthinker.com

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Lindsey Graham Destroys Eric Holder

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:12:05 +0000

Who the hell is running our Government. When they can not even answer a simple question. I swear to God we are being run by a bunch of High Schoolers that have no clue on what they are doing. Click here to view the embedded video. Chip in for my golf addiction Share and ...

stix1972 posted 28 hours ago from blog.stixblog.com

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Thanking the Guard Dogs

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:58:58 +0000

Here is a Thanksgiving message from Lt. Col. Allen West who reminds us what to be thankful for. This helps us keep our perspective during this uneasy time of daily upheaval in our country. I am thankful that there are great patriots like Allen West willing to actively take up the mantle of ...

DP posted 2 days ago from democracy-project.com

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Gobble, Gobble v. Quack, Quack

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:54:01 +0000

Just about everyone knows now that Justice Antonin Scalia likes to hunt. Those sporting instincts were painfully revealed when controversy erupted over his refusal to recuse himself from a case involving then-Vice President Dick Cheney shortly after he went duck...

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Alberto Gonzales Won't Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony -- Daily Intel

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:17:43 +0000

Alberto Gonzales, pilloried for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program, has been exonerated — sort of. According to public records and interviews with federal law-enforcement officials, the Justice Department has concluded that there’s ...

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Sotomayor's Name Still Turning Up in Senate Races

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:10:08 +0000

The nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor continues to resonate in races for the U.S. Senate, four months after she was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest example comes from California, where two Republicans running for their party's nomination...

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Joan Biskupic's American Original.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:17:56 +0000

In Joan Biskupic's new biography of Antonin Scalia, American Original, the justice wears a wreath of superlatives. He is the most quoted member of the Supreme Court and the one scholars write about most. He is the justice who writes the most concurrences—separate opinions that accept the holding ...

Slate Magazine found this 4 days ago on slate.com

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Ex-state cop boss admits Troopergate role

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:56:00 +0000

ALBANY -- Former acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton admitted breaking state law in connection with the Dirty Tricks scandal involving Eliot Spitzer's use of the state police against a political foe, public-integrity officials said yesterday. The decision from the Public ...

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Spitzer's Troopergate Revisited

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:22:02 +0000

Long-forgotten now that Eliot Spitzer has become a punchline over his use of $4000 hookers is the fact what should have sent him packing was his use of New York State Troopers to dig up dirt on his political opponents. Of course few cared about this gross abuse of power since Spitzer at the time ...

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SEIU tantrums in San Francisco; Update: Public-sector protectionism rejected in NJ

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

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Krauthammer's Take -- By: NRO Staff

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:38:00 +0000

On the horse trading necessary to pass Obamacare: We saw Senator Landrieu say, "I decided there were enough significant reforms." Well, one reform that she really appreciated was a $300 million payoff to her state in the bill that was shoved in there as a way to purchase her vote. So that ...

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EXCLUSIVE Analysis: Sorry, Islamophobia Pimps – 67% of US Hate Crimes Against Jews

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:32:00 +0000

By Debbie Schlussel Well, the FBI official hate crimes statistics are out for 2008. And like every year since the 9/11 Muslim terrorist attacks on America, the vast majority of religious hate crime victims on U.S. soil are America’s . . . Jews. While the Pentagon and US Army did overtime ...

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Surprise: NYC 'Homeless' Group a Total Scam

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:32:48 +0000

How long until we find out this dubious crew has some links to ACORN? They're got a 501(C)(3) tax exemption and have been in operation since 1985 and just now people have figured out this is a scam?Just in time for the holidays, state authorities are going for the jug-ular -- seeking to banish ...

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Krauthammer Rips Holder

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:05 +0000

"Utterly clueless"

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Security compromised

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:02 +0000

An unsettling question has begun to nag as Team Obama's conduct of security policy becomes ever more inconsistent with common sense - and, at least in some cases, manifestly at odds with our national interests. Consider the following illustrative examples of such troubling behavior: c The ...

Daily Kos found this 4 days ago on washingtontimes.com

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Homeless beggar jars a sham: AG

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:52:00 +0000

Just in time for the holidays, state authorities are going for the jug-ular -- seeking to banish forever the panhandling pests who clog Manhattan's busiest corners with folding tables and plastic water bottles. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit yesterday, charging the United ...

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ACORN Scandal, Part 2: The Evidentiary Phase

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:42:08 +0000

The last two months of the growing ACORN scandal have focused on the damning videos shot by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. In seven out of eight offices, ACORN employees attempted to aid and abet O’Keefe and Giles’ illicit “scheme” to establish a brothel for underage ...

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Fiorina: I Would Have Voted for Sotomayor « The Washington Independent

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:52:31 +0000

At a breakfast with reporters this morning, California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina responded to a question about whether she would filibuster Obama nominees by saying that “elections have consequences,” but that she’d look at the nominees’ qualifications.“I did not closely follow the Sonia ...

TPM Election Central found this 5 days ago on washingtonindependent.com

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Stunner: 9/11 Maniacs to Use Trial to Rant Against America

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

Now it's all making sense. Barack Obama and Eric Holder cleary have such an antipathy towards America but are too afraid to publicly espouse their views.So instead they'll let these maniacs do the dirty work.The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can ...

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9/11 Terrorists’ NYC Trial: Holder’s German Complication

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:53:16 +0000

Concerned for the lives of these “fiends,” as the New York Post introduces the most recent turn of events in this emerging legal saga, the Germans are “weaseling in” on the trial. Here’s the intriguing gist of the story : the German government will send a team ...

DP posted 6 days ago from democracy-project.com

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Eric Holder's Baffling KSM Decision

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:06:00 +0000

DAVID BEAMER On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to question Attorney General Eric Holder about his decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in criminal courts rather than military tribunals. As the father of Todd Beamer, who died on United Airlines Flight 93, I ...

Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog found this 7 days ago on online.wsj.com

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Rep. Patrick Kennedy Banned From Receiving Communion By Bishop Thomas Tobin

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:31:00 +0000

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday. The ...

BlondeSense found this 6 days ago on huffingtonpost.com

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Skelton demands hearing on KSM trial

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:45:38 +0000

The chair of the House Armed Services Committee has sent a letter demanding the appearance of Attorney General Eric Holder to explain his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators in federal court. Rep. [...] Read the rest »

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Holder: 'Failure not an option' in New York 9/11 terror trial

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:35:53 +0000

But Attorney General Eric Holder also told senators Wednesday that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be detained indefinitely if acquitted in a New York terror trial. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the November 18, 2009 edition Attorney ...

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Maybe They Can Switch Sides Again

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:01:51 +0000

They were the best defense terrorists could buy on a pro bono basis! And now they are all working at the Justice Department and need to recuse themselves from the upcoming terrorist trials (or at least, ought to.) Will there...

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Selling Originalism by Jamal Greene

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:57 +0000

Columbia University - Law School Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, p. 657, 2009 Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 08-185 Abstract: The legal academy has been unkind to originalism. Legal scholars have leveled withering criticism at originalists, maintaining that their faith in judges' ...

The Volokh Conspiracy found this 8 days ago on papers.ssrn.com

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Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder’s conflicted DOJ

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:54:00 +0000

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Holder targets racial profiling in Detroit speech | Speech offers chance to discuss such issues as racial profiling

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:09 +0000

Speech offers chance to discuss such issues as racial profiling Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News Detroit -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a crowd of law enforcement, and community and Muslim leaders Thursday the U.S. Justice Department "is again open for business." "I can ...

Michelle Malkin found this 8 days ago on detnews.com

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A Return to Traditional American Justice

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:12:23 +0000

The White House's decision to try alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian courthouse in New York City constitutes a return to America's noble system of justice and a rejection of the kangaroo court system of President George W. Bush.

dmmorrison posted 8 days ago from berkshireeagle.com

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Eric Holder's True Motive

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20:08 +0000

Mona Charen, National Review Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. "After eight years of delay," he intoned, ...

Pat Dollard | Young Americans found this 8 days ago on realclearpolitics.com

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Meredith Jessup: More Disturbing ACORN Footage From LA Investigation Released

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:46 +0000

The plot thickens in LA with Larry Flynt, international sex businesses and ACORN's willingness to help...Part I Part IIAnd now, BigGovernment founder Andrew Brietbart is warning Attorney General Eric Holder: Investigate...

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Breitbart to Eric Holder: Investigate ACORN, or else.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:51:48 +0000

Yes, it’s a threat. And threats don’t get more direct than this: either AG Holder starts investigating ACORN, or Breitbart dumps what he still has on the scene in time to make a difference in the 2010 elections. And this message is to Attorney General Holder: I want you to know that ...

RedState found this 8 days ago on moelane.com

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Breitbart to AG Holder: Do your job douche nozzle or we will burn the Democrats come 2010!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:46 +0000

Oh Man, there’s gonna be many a Democrat singing the blues, if Eric Holder does not do his job before 2010. The Video: Breitbart: There’s a lot of hypocrisy and the dust has settled for ACORN and at the end of the day they’ve recognized that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, ...

Patrick Adkins posted 8 days ago from politicalbyline.com

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What the Law Commands

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:37:07 +0000

The surprising similarities between Chief Justice John Roberts and his newest colleague, Sonia Sotomayor.

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Travesty in New York -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:06 +0000

F or late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has been given ...

Pat Dollard | Young Americans found this 8 days ago on article.nationalreview.com

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Sen. Graham knocks around AG Holder on KSM.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:21:10 +0000

I know that Senator Lindsey Graham (R, SC) is not on a lot of people’s Christmas card lists, but this exchange between him and Attorney General Eric Holder was four minutes, forty seconds’ worth of pure schooling : Not filmed was the bit in the end where Holder was on the floor, looking for his ...

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How Hard Can AG Holder Have Studied The KSM Question? -- By: Andy McCarthy

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:43 +0000

Attorney General Holder's exchange with Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday has, quite appropriately, gotten lots of attention. I want to drill down for a moment, though, on one element of it. The lawyer's stock in trade is precedent. Whether you're a prosecutor or any other lawyer faced with ...

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Will Chicago’s Gun-Control Law Lead to Constitutional Reawakening?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:42:49 +0000

Since first stepping foot into law school oh so many years ago, our interest has never been higher in a case pending at the Supreme Court as it is right now in a case currently being briefed. The issues are fascinating on several levels, and the potential impact of a ruling is big. The case ...

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Holder's True Motive -- By: Mona Charen

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16:04 +0000

A ttorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough-guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. “ After eight years of delay,” he intoned, “those allegedly responsible for the ...

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Wall St. Journal Slammed for Racist Slur

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:37 +0000

Wisconsin residents object after newspaper editorial denigrates black federal district court nominee

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Buchanan still hasn't left office (Updated)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:02:11 +0000

Paula Reed Ward | November 19, 2009 Even though former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan's official reign ended at midnight Monday , she has been spotted in her office both Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Sure, you might think she's busy packing up her belongings, but apparently, that's ...

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Po Restaurant

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:49:00 +0000

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Travesty in New York

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:54 +0000

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

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Breitbart to AG Holder: Investigate ACORN or We’ll Release More Tapes Just Before 2010 Election

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

Earlier tonight Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles discussed the final chapter of the ACORN L.A. saga on “Hannity,” but more interestingly, Breitbart disclosed where the story goes from here. Transcript (below) starts from 3:50 into the clip: Watch the latest ...

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Holder's decision on Mohammed trial defended

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:28:21 +0000

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Grassley To Holder: Remember O.J. Simpson Before Trying KSM

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:51:00 +0000

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered a stern warning for Eric Holder on Wednesday when addressing the attorney general's confidence that he would get a conviction in civilian court for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Remember O.J. Simpson. The Iowa Republican, speaking at a Senate ...

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Dear Mr. Holder

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:13:22 +0000

Holder speciously recast the arguments against a civilian trial for KSM in his testimony to Congress. This lawyer mom discusses the arguments against holding a civilian trial, none of which Holder could answer, and Holder's suggestion that Bush is to blame for the terrorists' trial delays.

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Sen. Graham knocks around AG Holder on KSM.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:04:29 +0000

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Republicans Clash With Attorney General Eric Holder Over Terror Trials

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:38:59 +0000

Telling a Senate panel, "We need not cower in the face of this enemy," Attorney General Eric Holder testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that he decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other accused 9/11 masterminds in a civilian criminal court rather than a military tribunal because that is ...

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