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The Turner Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a column issued last week, Fourth District Congressman Ike Skelton emphasized his support of the Patriot Act: The PATRIOT Act passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It was intended to enable law enforcement officials to track down and punish those responsible for the terrorist attacks and to protect against any similar strikes against our nation. In the years following...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are preparing for a confrontation with the White House over the state secrets privilege. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (R-NY), the chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights and civil liberties, has called the privilege's expansion during the Bush Administration "the greatest threat to liberty in this country." At an academic conference...
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Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), along with five House members, sent a formal request to the IRS to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Tom Coburn America, our country has granted non-profit status to CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the scandalous Holyland Foundation's funding of terrorism - or as WorldNetDaily puts it: the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history. In its...
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Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
While there are a slew of USA PATRIOT Act reform bills buzzing about Capitol Hill, the focus in Congress is now on two chief contenders, reported out by the House and Senate judiciary committees respectively. The very very short version is that the Senate version renews expiring PATRIOT powers with very few modifications, and [...]
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Preparing for the year’s end, Newsweek’s web site is now carrying a video of "The Decade In Seven Minutes." Unsurprisingly, the historical memory is sharply partisan and liberal. It’s a very self-serving first draft. On how many events is Newsweek biased? Let us count the ways. (MRC's Mike Sargent did the transcript.) 1.Elian Gonzalez (no gun in Elian’s face photo,...
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SayUncle (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Sebastian gives you the skinny on how all that works. Because some people stupidly think that were it not for Tiahrt, the Fort Hood shooting could have been stopped. If you’re looking for BLAME!!! try the federal agencies that were supposed to be fixed by the PATRIOT Act.
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Red State (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
RedState Morning Briefing For November 11, 2009 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and...
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Red State (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Actually, in this context ’same as the old boss’ would be a comfort . To me, at least, if not the folks who made such a hullabaloo over the PATRIOT Act; I’m not worried about the government abusing its authority so much as I worry about it making an utter hash of its attempt to try to use it. But of course said ‘abuse’ was not the least common election-year theme - usually...
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
? CA-Sen, CA-Gov : A new LA Times/USC poll (conducted by GQR and POS) finds a dead heat in the GOP Senate primary: conservative Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and vapid ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina are deadlocked at 27 each (despite the fact that DeVore is almost entirely unknown, with favorables of 6/4 -- the deal is that Fiorina is, other than Ahnold, the state's only political figure with negative favorables,...
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BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Last Thursday, even as lone-wolf Nidal Malik Hassan was gunning down his fellow soldiers, Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee stripped a provision from the Patriot Act which would allow tracking lone-wolf terrorists. Panel OKs revised antiterrorism law : The bill went to the full House on a 16-10 vote along party lines; Republicans cast all the "no" votes. GOP lawmakers said the legislation...
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Truth Out (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The USA Patriot Act, rushed into law by a panicky US Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, gave law enforcement sweeping new powers, including broad surveillance powers to spy on innocent Americans. But it also stipulated that three of its more controversial provisions should expire at the end of next month unless reapproved by lawmakers. read more
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we move to canada (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The US House of Representatives manages to pass some type of health care reform bill, but women can go to hell. Please note that 64 Democrats think this is peachy. The Stupak Amendment means that no funds coming out of the health care reform bill can be used for abortion. Since 1976 - got that? 1976! - the Hyde Amendment has prohibited federal funds from being used to pay for abortion. Look how many...
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MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The House of Representatives is debating HR 2962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act today. In a nice touch, Representative John Dingell (MI-15) is presiding over the chamber. He was one of the architects of the original Medicare bill. President Barack Obama went to the Capitol this morning to urge House Democrats to pass the bill. The final vote is expected this evening, and most observers...
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Representative Steve King (IA-05) enjoyed Thursday's "House call" rally against health care reform so much that he organized another rally at the Capitol today to "kill the bill." Unfortunately for fellow Republicans, King and several other wingnuts blew off a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. In their absence, [...]
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Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
With Senator Jim Bunning (R) retiring after this present term, the Republican primary and general election in Kentucky should be quite interesting. With the Secretary of State, Trey Grayson and the son of Congressman Ron Paul, Dr. Rand Paul going at it for the Republican nomination, not only will the Republican candidate be selected, but the Republican party could once again be defined. Republican...
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paisano1 | 02/10/2009
When the dust from the departing helicopter finally settled, America realized that the old “shrubs” of the last 8 years had been replaced with the seeds of new growth opportunities. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner will most certainly review the current state of affairs and enact some significant new enhancements.
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