July 5, 2013 – 11:45 am
So says The Politico Edward Snowden’s nightmare may be coming true. Not exile; not the danger of imprisonment or prosecution; and not his newfound association with dictators, lawyers and impresarios. Snowden’s worst fear, by his own account, was that “nothing will change.†“People will see in the media all these disclosures, they’ll know the lengths […]
July 5, 2013 – 8:33 am
Of course, this is one of the great things about American democracy (don’t start with the “it’s a Republic” thing), based on the 1st Amendment: allowing other viewpoints. Which is interesting for the NY Times, because, at best, they rarely allow more than super-squishy Republicans to publish op-eds. Anyhow, here’s the Brookings Institute’s Shadi Hamid, […]
July 2, 2013 – 5:12 pm
It would probably be uncharitable to note that other groups, such as liberals, progressives, Atheists, Democrats, along with (NMP) Obama, tend to be absent (NJ.com) “It can get pretty emotional,” said Hudgins, 43. “We just want people to know that we love them and didn’t forget about them.” Hudgins arrived in the Garden State last […]
June 27, 2013 – 8:31 am
Liberal and pro-amnesty groups must surely know that the border control provisions in the Democrat Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill will, for the most part, be ignored, especially by the current far-left administration. Just like happened when the last amnesty was passed. Just like with much of the border control legislation passed in 2006 (which was also […]
June 26, 2013 – 10:43 am
Yesterday, progressives were going bat guano insane over the Supreme Court’s decision on one portion of the Voting Rights Act. Today, they are going…bat guano insane over the DOMA decision, based on their headlines Supreme Court strikes down DOMA Same-Sex Spouses Cheer DOMA’s Demise Supreme Court strikes down DOMA, Colorado impact weighed Supreme Court: DOMA […]
June 26, 2013 – 8:29 am
I forget who wrote the Tweet yesterday, they come so quick, but it went something like “If they can drive down to the polling place, they can drive down to get an ID” (WRAL) Voter identification legislation in North Carolina will pick up steam again now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down part […]
June 16, 2013 – 8:17 am
Unsurprisingly, the authors of the letter to the editor served under Holder Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general We were disappointed to read David Ignatius’s June 9 op-ed column, “A mediocre attorney general,†purporting to represent the views of a number of unnamed Washington lawyers about Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s tenure. […]
June 15, 2013 – 6:57 am
That’s what super partisan Dana Milbank wants to know (Washington Post) Where have all the liberals gone? President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration’s collection of Americans’ phone records and Internet activities. Senate Democratic leader Harry […]
June 13, 2013 – 9:05 am
So says the head of the NSA (NY Times) The director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Wednesday that “dozens†of terrorism threats had been halted by the agency’s huge database of the logs of nearly every domestic phone call made by Americans, while a senator briefed on the program disclosed that the […]
June 12, 2013 – 8:23 am
OK, OK, we know that this is a Republic, but it is a democratic Republic, part of the Democracy political model. And we do have to give them style points for going against Obama and other Democrats on this issue (NY Times) A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found that a majority of Americans […]
