Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

On torture, war crimes and hypocrisy

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So Democrats in Congress are up in arms about revelations that our government tortured inmates as part of the War on Everything Terror. It...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

My religion is more important than your health

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When the US Supreme Court released its decision in   Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. yesterday it pointed out yet another flaw in the d...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Hypocrisy and human rights

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Once upon a time there was a monarchy. The citizenry were divided into two distinct groups. The folks who belonged to the group the king bel...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

The high price of exposing the truth

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Yesterday Col. Denise Lind sentenced Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for exposing the truth . He exposed the lies, deceit and criminal...
Friday, May 24, 2013

More platitudes and empty promises

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Yesterday President Obama gave a speech at the National Defense University in which he laid out his policy objectives in the War Against Eve...

Murder, terrorism and hypocrisy

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Britain is all atwitter over a supposed terrorist attack in London in which a British soldier was hacked to death by two men - one of whom ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Plugging leaks

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The Obama administration has gone after more whistleblowers and journalists for leaking classified information that all other administration...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Shutting down dissent anyway possible

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By now it is quite obvious to the most oblivious observer that President Obama has failed miserably in his attempt to close down the prison ...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Justice in Guatemala

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Yesterday in Guatemala we saw an example of just what democracy is all about. In a court of law former Guatemalan strongman Efrain Rios Mont...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Lies, lies, lies

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The Big Lie began ten years ago this week. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The Bush administration knew it was a lie. T...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

It's okay because I said it's okay

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First forget about all the niceties we've come to appreciate. I'm talking about the Due Process Clause, the right to trial by jury a...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Spying on the 99 percent

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Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Gove...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Fiscal cliff? What fiscal cliff?

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If I remember my Constitution correctly, all bills dealing with taxing and spending must originate in the House.   So, it would appear to...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

It's time to shuffle up and deal, Mr. President

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Someone please let President Obama know I'm trying to get a poker night together sometime in the next couple of weeks. I'd really lo...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

If not now, when?

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Aurora, Colorado. Portland, Oregon. Newtown, Connecticut. After each one of these mass shootings, White House spokesman Jay Carney tol...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Peace is in the eye of the beholder

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Yesterday, in Oslo, the European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And just what did our friends in the EU do to deserve such an ...
Friday, November 9, 2012

A tale of two men

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British Prime Minister David Cameron said the other day that he would support safe passage out of Syria for embattled dictator Bashar al-Ass...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Were they hiding under rocks?

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I saw a little bit of the Presidential "debate" the other night - but I'm still mystified where they found 80 undecided voters...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The myth of foreign oil

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I've gotten just a bit tired of hearing politicians like Mitt Romney and his ilk arguing that we need to do more drilling off the Gulf C...
Monday, October 15, 2012

What right to know?

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In our government's ongoing quest to keep us in the dark about all that it does in our name, government prosecutors have requested that...