Rule of Law

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• If This Smug, Self-Serving Bastard Gave Me This Christmas “Message”, He’d Hate My Reciprocation

  
  Taxes, Stupidity, and Death — Authority: 120
  “As this debate draws to a close and my colleagues and I prepare to vote on a health care reform bill, I recognize the long hours and tense negotiation have left some nerves and tempers frayed,” Burris said. “That’s why I come to the floor today. Although our work keeps us away from our family and friends for ...
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• Relocating Guantánamo: Silence of the Lamb-like Lawyers: By Paul Craig Roberts

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  Obama’s dwindling band of true believers has taken heart that their man has finally delivered on one of his many promises--the closing of the Guantanamo prison. But the prison is not being closed. It is being moved to Illinois, if the Republicans permit. -- In truth, Obama has handed his supporters another defeat. ...
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• Obama Signs into Law Restriction on Arbitration Clauses

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  The provision is included in the 2009-10 spending bill for the U.S. Department of Defense, and it touches on an issue that has been a high priority this year for trial lawyers and for consumer groups. They say that clauses mandating the use of arbitration deny employees an impartial hearing in open court, while ...
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• Human Rights Round Up

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 115
  With the holidays coming up and getting the 2009 Year in Review together, we have been a bit light on posting. However here are some links to a few of the human rights stories from this past week. Detained in Iran, Russia, and China Last week NPR reported on three human rights stories from Iran, Russia, and ...
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• The Individual Mandate : Unconstitutional, and an Alarming Precedent

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  If Congress can compel the purchase of insurance from a for profit insurance company, it can compel the purchase of any commodity if there is an arguable public policy to support it... If Congress gets away with this, there is no stopping point and Big Business will have succeeded in making Americans into involuntary ...
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• Travails of a young war criminal

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  "Now, I realize that you must be wondering why I am devoting all this space to a discredited ex-leader whose country once played a minor role in the invasion of a midsized Arab country. The war is mostly over now, the dead cannot be brought back to life, and we have lots of new things to worry about. Former president ...
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• Going the Wrong Way about Doing the Right Thing?

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 434
  By B. CivilianThe full bench of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan unanimously declared the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) null and void, ab initio. In view of the unpopularity of the Ordinance, the PPP government had virtually disowned it over the last few weeks, notwithstanding Babar Awan’s claim that ...
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• Obamas climate emergency powers

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Add to the unprecedented power grab because of "climate change," the imminent government takeover of Americas health-care industry, "hate crimes" legislation and a dozen other extra-constitutional actions of this Congress and this president and you begin to get an appreciation of the fact that the U.S. government is ...
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• Deconstruction at its best...

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 150
  Priest outrages police by telling congregation: My advice to poor is to shopliftRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237470/Priest-advises-congregation-shoplift.html#ixzz0aLbAr52a
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• Mass Gathering in defence of street photography - 12 Noon Saturday 23rd January 2010 Trafalgar Square, London

  
  Magna Carta Plus News — Authority: 118
  Spy Blog reports: The I’m a Photographer Not A Terrorist ! campaign is organising a Mass Gathering in defence of street photography 12 NoonSaturday 23rd January 2010Trafalgar Square I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! invite all Photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography. ...
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• Show Us the E-Mail

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  A.I.G. was at the center of the web of bad business judgments, opaque financial derivatives, failed economics and questionable political relationships that set off the economic cataclysm of the past two years. When A.I.G.’s financial products division collapsed — ultimately requiring a federal bailout of $180 ...
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• Gitmo North

  
  cab drollery — Authority: 428
  Watching America had in interesting blend of stories about the US. Most were about Barack Obama, and those were split between the Nobel Peace Laureates announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan and his appearance at the climate conference in Copenhagen. One article, however, had a different subject: that of ...
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• Bill To Strengthen Justice Dept.s Human Rights Muscle Awaits Obamas Pen

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  A bill that would create a new human rights section at the Justice Department Justice was passed by the House this week and now waits for President Obama to sign into law.   »  noticia original
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• Nobel Peace Prize (2009): President Barack Obama’s Speech Exemplified the Theory of “Might is Right”

  
  A DC Observer — Authority: 112
  I have read the President Barack Obama’s Nobel Lecture that he gave upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. In the Lecture, the President attempted to argue that warcraft can lead to peace. As I have argued before , war and peace are mutually exclusive. Further examination of the speech indicates that the President ...
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• ARAB HONOUR AND THE PEACE PROCESS

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Arab honour is at the root of Arab rejectionism and intransigence. It prevents Arabs from accepting blame or compromising. It also prevents Arabs from losing land to Israel or ending the conflict. Arab honour is closely linked to Islamic concepts of jihad and dhimmitude. Arab honour impells them to seek domination. ...
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• The tyranny of modern racism...

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 150
  The Rot At Duke -- And Beyond Much of academia appears to have a disregard of due process and a bias against white males. Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009by Stuart Taylor Jr. You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in recent history, and whose professors -- 88 ...
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• Favorite book of 2009: When conflicting worlds meet

  
  Can it happen here? — Authority: 132
  Tamim Ansarys descriptions in Destiny Disrupted of the very early days of Islam when the religion was being revealed by Mohammed and just afterward help me understand what seems very foreign to a member of a pluralistic secular polity such as ours. As the story goes, the Prophets revelations created an equitable ...
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• Net Nanny: Internet needs Rule

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 125
  Comrades and Underlings,when children approach their parents, or when the tributaries of the world approach their Middle Kingdom Emperor (or his viceroy overseas), they should ketou, or at least they should keep their hands clasped.By no means should they spread their hands or fingers – this looks very vulgar. And ...
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• The Mafiosi State (II)(Kosovo)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  RISTINA/BERLIN (Own report) - A new mafia scandal involving Berlins Kosovo partner is creating unrest in Pristina. A former agent of the Kosovo intelligence service explained that a close associate of Kosovos incumbent Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, had commissioned the assassinations of political opponents. According ...
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• How Police States Are Born

  
  Probable Cause — Authority: 408
  It’s amazing how often history reports itself in things both small and large.  I recently ran across one of the small things in this passage from Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here : “Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut ‘Liberty cabbage’ and somebody actually proposed calling ...
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