Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com During a recent speech at the American Constitution Society (ACS),United States Attorney General Eric Holder lauded our American civilian court system as “our most effective terror-fighting weapon.”Holder’s address,along with his whole attorney general career,reflects a flawed ideology that believes wrapping enemy combatants in the American flag [...] Flush with the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed,the world’s cartoonists immortalized the day in a number of often similar ways. Based on Osama’s burial at sea,many chose a nautical theme: Other depictions focused not on the water of his earthly resting place but on fire of his eternal abode:[...] Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com Americans may be less safe today because the Obama administration made the decision to circumvent the Constitutional treaty ratification process by mandating that his administration would begin compliance with Article 75 of Additional Protocol I (API) to the 1949 Geneva Conventions “out of a sense of moral obligation.” API,an [...] Ben Smith,Politico Here’s a novel of an expansion of the federal government’s use of the word “terrorism,”from the triumphant statement of a North Carolina U.S. Attorney,Anne Tompkins,who just won a conviction against a man who minted his own currency: Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com “The accumulation of all powers,legislative,executive,and judiciary,in the same hands…may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny”—James Madison,The Federalist Papers,#47. The New York Times has a pair of chilling stories indicating Barack Obama is considering ignoring provisions of a new law that forbid [...] Michael Reagan,FloydReports.com Four years ago I had hip replacement surgery —which involves having an implant containing metal —and that means that every time I fly,which is often,a Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employee passes a wand over my body to be sure I’m not concealing some explosive device [...] First,Barack Obama endorsed the anti-Tea Party/Glenn Beck rallies planned by Comedy Central’s John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Now Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (AIM) reports he’s been joined by his terrorist pals,Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground: When comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced their [...] Trevor Loudon,NewZeal blog On September 24,about 20 FBI agents spent most of the day searching the Logan Square residence of Chicago activists Stephanie Weiner and her husband,Joseph Iosbaker,reports the Chicago Tribune. Working for Willie Delgado In 1998 the duo worked as leaders of the Chicago New Party,alongside [...] Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson,Human Events “There are ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army by attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom,being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army.”—Sun Tzu,The Art of War. When presidential candidate [...] | |