Showing posts with label Bill of Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill of Rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Court releases Obama's drone memo

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Thanks to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, the infamous Obama administration "drone memo" is now public . The memo lays out the a...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Principled grandstanding

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Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) was on All Things Considered  yesterday talking about the threat that 13 senators have made to filibuster any att...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Where there's smoke, there's a microphone

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The fix was in from the beginning. You know it. I know it. We all know it but the government is deadset on proceeding with a show trial in t...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Worth the paper it's printed on

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A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be in...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Judge, jury and executioner

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The Obama administration's assault on the Bill of Rights - and the Constitution - continued yesterday when the government conceded to a ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Another assault on privacy

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It's just never enough. No matter how much data the US government can collect on citizens, there is always more data just out of reach. ...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Everyone is presumed innocent, except for...

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If there was ever any doubt that the Attorney General is just the mouthpiece for the President of the United States, those doubts should be ...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Bennett for Court of Criminal Appeals

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If there was ever a place that needed a proponent of limited government it is the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. In no other area is the n...
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Friday, December 9, 2011

On secret prisons and shredding the Constitution

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It would appear that the CIA has been operating a secret prison in Bucharest since the days of the Shrub administration. The prison was u...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Shhh! It's a secret

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Naturally the very existence of the document is a national security secret (or at least a pinkie-swear secret) - but what you expect when t...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Death without due process

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Responding to the responders

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What follows is a comment that was posted in response to my post on September 11 . As is my policy, if someone is going to take the time t...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Never forget (the hype)

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We have a fascination for numbers and anniversaries in this nation of ours. Today is the tenth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11. Of course...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

More on cages and due process

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In response to my post Defendants, cages and due process , I received the following e-mail from Sabrina Carliss: Paul, you had an Aug 9th a...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

The slow drip of tyranny

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I came across the following message on one of the listservs I frequent the other day: When did we as a society decide it was ok for the gov...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Looking for the next bogeyman

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Yesterday's bogeyman is dead. Today Scott Greenfield asks whether the death of Osama Bin Laden will change anything . Now that the mas...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

The hidden agenda

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How anyone can think it is appropriate in any way shape or form for counties to place displays in front of their courthouses for crime victi...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

And the lemmings keep falling off the cliff

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Here's your tax dollars at work. If a stranger did this to your child, you'd be calling the police. But, because it's our gove...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Not a good week to be on trial in Montgomery County

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By proclamation of our dear leader, the fair-haired one, Governor Rick Perry, the week of April 10-16, 2011 is " The Defendant's No...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

A glimpse into the future?

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If you want an idea of what a post-apocalyptical United States might look like, the kind folks with the New York State Unified Court System ...