A bad deal to avoid Holder’s folly?
The Washington Post reports that President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed et al. be prosecuted in a military tribunal rather than federal court in New York City. But this outcome would be accompanied by some kind of agreement with Lindsey Graham to help the administration secure congressional funding [...]
Perry, Texas
DALLAS — It got down to this in Texas on primary day, March 2:
Who’s in charge here? Who’s telling us what to do — and are we
going to take it?
March 2 — the day Republican Gov. Rick Perry whammed,
slammed, and crammed his gubernatorial rival, U. [...]
The Holder hangover (and whence it comes)
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania during the presidential campaign in June 2008, Barack Obama addressed the Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision granting Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their confinement through habeas corpus proceedings in federal court. Obama asserted that the “principle of habeas corpus, that a state can’t just hold you for [...]
A Futile Constitutional Exercise, But a Nice Shibboleth Nonetheless
I would love to see Republicans in House and Senate propose the following amendment to the United States Constitution; it’s short, simple, and substantive:
The rights, liberties, privileges, and immunities protected by this Constitution shall apply only to United States citizens and legally resident or visiting aliens, not found to have taken up arms against the [...]
Obamunism: Threat… or Menace?
Threatswatch — which is normally fairly reliable — is either hyperventilating some very interesting psychedelic vapors… or else they’re onto something big. Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton note that President Barack H. Obama signed an Executive Order (EO) rescinding part of Ronald Reagan’s 1983 EO 12425; the original EO restricted the activities of Interpol [...]
Zombie Revolution
I generally take holy days — sorry, holidays — as an opportunity for posts of a more philosophical nature, and today is no exception.
Walter Williams, one of my favorite authors (though I haven’t read his recent books), has a column in which he notes the contempt that Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) [...]
