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POPSThe Ghailani verdict and American justice But even had he been acquitted on all counts, the Obama administration had made clear that it would simply continue to imprison him anyway under what it claims is the President's "post-acquittal detention power" -- i.e., when an accused Terrorist is wholly acquitted in court, he can still be imprisoned indefinitely by the U.S. Government under the "law of war" even when the factual bases for the claim that he's an "enemy combatant" (i.e. that he blew up the two embassies) are the same ones underlying the crimes for which he was fully acquitted after a full trial. When he banned the testimony of the key witness, Judge Kaplan, somewhat cravenly, alluded to and implicitly endorsed this extraordinary detention theory as a means of assuring the public he had done nothing to endanger them with his ruling.
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POPSBen Quayle's Victory Speech First Line..."Barack Obama is the worst president in history” Karl Rove on GOP primary turnout: “If you look at the entire year, Republicans have turned out, before tonight, nearly 4 million more people have voted in the Republican primaries than have voted in the democratic primaries this year. Four years ago, 3 million more people voted in the democratic primary than the Republican. Eight years ago 3 million more people voted in the democratic primary than the Republican. You know when the last time was that Republicans in an off year election that I could find that more people voted in the Republican primary than the democratic primaries? 1926.” by Jim Hoft http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com
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POPSWE REMEMBER – Families of 9/11 Victims Speak Out… Release Powerful, Emotional Ad Against Ground Zero Mega Mosque ...got a bit testy in the video below, saying — with a decidedly churlish tone — he’s got “no regrets” on his Ground Zero mega mosque comments — translation: “no regrets” about not honoring the memories of thousands of murdered Americans, “no regrets” about not listening to the majority of Americans that he swore he would serve, “no regrets” about putting Muslim millionaires above the sensibilities and desires of the majority of New Yorkers, “no regrets” about being the worst president we’ve ever had in this country. No sirree… no regrets. Obama is gung-ho for that Victory Mosque, so screw off, America … "We Remember" Families of 9/11 Victims Speak Out… http://www.frugal-cafe.com
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POPSEmanuel links fall elections to GOP support of BP I believe I see two lies in the article. Republicans & Conservatives are not "defending BP". I heard Mitch McConnel land Liz Cheney say the exact opposite this morning and I've heard of no one else doing anything of the kind except Barton who apparently was apologizing for the demonizing of the man...not the disaster or BP's responsibility for it. BP is not "the victim" and I don't think there is anyone who would say that with a straight face. Emanuel can call it "attacking the administration" over the compensation fund or maybe it's just a matter of disagreeing with the options and possible outcome of the dispensing of the money.
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POPSThe full-scale collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer None of the facts compiled earlier today by ABC News' Jake Tapper -- such as the fact that the Bush DOJ also hired lawyers who had represented Guantanamo detainees, just as Rudy Giuliani's firm had, without any objections from the Right -- made it into CNN's story, as I knew would happen.
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POPSLiz Cheney's Stance On Torture Puts Her At Odds With Petraeus The top U.S. commander in Iraq admonished his troops regarding the results of an Army survey that found that many U.S military personnel there are willing to tolerate some torture of suspects and unwilling to report abuse by comrades. "This fight depends on securing the population, which must understand that we -- not our enemies -- occupy the moral high ground," Army Gen. David H. Petraeus wrote in an open letter dated May 10 and posted on a military Web site. He rejected the argument that torture is sometimes needed to quickly obtain crucial information. "Beyond the basic fact that such actions are illegal, history shows that they also are frequently neither useful nor necessary," he stated. What ever became of "listening to the generals on the ground?"
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POPSCheney: Obama Will Be a One-Term President Cheney received wild cheers and a standing ovation when he appeared, unannounced, on the stage following remarks by his daughter, Liz Cheney. A man in the crowd shouted, “Thank you.” The former vice president, who has been one of the Obama administration’s biggest critics, spoke for only a few minutes.
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POPSLizCheney exposes BraveNewWorld: 40% on Soma(antidepressants), cannot reason. Republicans manipulate these sheep.
Nev. Senator Reid has been pilloried for two solid days over the weekend by TV pundits and in particular by hypocritical Republicans, who have actually gone so far as to demand Reid's RESIGNATION(!) for noticing the color of then candidate Obama's skin. On the Sunday morning talk show "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Robert Reich, in a rare instance of anyone fighting back on this nonsense, clarified the utter irrationality of these attacks to Liz Cheney: "Race is a fact in America. Talking about race does not make you a racist." I would add to Idiot Liz, "Is your position that if you notice people's skin color that you are a racist? If you're that unobservant that you don't see people's color (have you not managed to see people's tans either?), then how come you Republicans are so much for (racial) profiling? I mean who would be able to do it?. Guess you'd have to hire nothing but racists, huh? I'm appalled at the utter inability of the majority of the pundits to do sim
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POPSLiz Cheney taken out at knees by cons. Will & liberal Reich for hypocritical lies & Rep. spin on Reid - Stephanou Unceremonious it was, but she refused any other way. Harping throughout "This Week with George Stephanopoulous," to carry Republican spin points and dirty water to muddle the otherwise reasonable discussion, apparently even conservative icon George Will had enough. I can only think she must hang around a lot of teabaggers considering the level of her illogic. I wondered if this was our version of Al Quaeda brainwashing that she could consistently and self-assuredly continue her roundhouse attacks on anything from the Democrats, never wavering a bit no matter how her arguments -- lacking facts and evidence -- were crushed by the other roundtable members explication of facts, evidence, cause and effect -- you know, the things that are the basis of conclusions, deductions, and the best solutions. She would have none of it. Given all the deference of a highly educated and experienced expert in the great numbers of fields they touched on, this spawn of Vader continued her Dick-like conc
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POPSSenate GOP Does “Masterful” Job in Derailing ObamaCare! On the same day that President Obama gathered a handful of business leaders at the White House for a phony “jobs summit” (how many jobs were created? ZERO!) Senate GOP leaders held their own jobs meeting to highlight the negative employment aspects of Obamacare. Big News: Top Medicare Official Declares Dem Plan Will RAISE Costs! Obama and the Democrats have long insisted that their plan would lower the “cost curve” for health costs and insurance. In November the Congressional Budget Office said that individual insurance premiums will rise an additional 10% under the Democrat plan . Last week, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the Health and Human Services Dept., declared that under the Dem plan health care costs would increase by $234 billion more than if no plan were enacted. Plus, many hospitals which are already on a financial knife’s edge would be pushed firmly into the red.
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POPSSmall Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detainees, Not Your Fearmongering But Standish’s City Manager tells us that local leaders and residents want the facility, and dismissed Cheney’s efforts as “fearmongering.” Cheney is “certainly not representing the views of our community,” the City Manager, Michael Moran, told our reporter, Amanda Erickson. While some local residents do appear to have expressed mixed feelings or opposition to the plan, Moran says that they’re an isolated minority that Ms. Cheney’s video elevates out of proportion in a way that’s “off base.” What’s more, the Standish city council recently passed a unanimous resolution expressing support for bringing Gitmo detainees, citing job losses in the wake of the closing of the facility. Seems that the good people of Standish just don’t have Liz Cheney’s understanding of the nature of the threat.
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POPSThe Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough
To Brooks, the big question is whether Obama possesses "the trait that is more important than intellectual sophistication and, in fact, stands in tension with it." That is, whether the president is "a very manly, virile, manful person, and a firm believer in strict discipline, corporal punishment, and nude apartment wrestling." Oops, never mind. That last bit was Captain Ned. But it does get old hearing this cohort of Ivy League toughs -- most of whom one suspects haven't had even a fistfight since third grade -- describe every U.S. foreign policy issue as a testosterone test. One suspects it may not be Obama's virility they're worried about. Next came Cheney's devoted daughter. After President Obama paid a 4 a.m. visit to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to salute the flag-draped caskets of 18 American servicemen arriving home from Afghanistan, and to console their families, Liz Cheney appeared on -- where else? -- Fox News radio to suggest a cheap political stunt.
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POPSLiz Cheney emerges, the left's feeding frenzy (and "tolerance"), verging on abject panic So Liz Cheney, just like Palin, unnerves and upsets the Left, not simply because she might run for something and win, and not only because she is one of the most effective conservative spokeswomen on national security. She threatens their claim to the moral high ground and their assertion that women voters belong to the Left. That’s reason enough to send them into fits of rage. And you can bet they’re only getting warmed up. So predictable. Saw this coming a mile away. It's almost boring watching the left piss their pants again over a woman who happens to be a conservative. Maybe we can expect David Letterman to crack a rape joke about Liz and her family, on behalf of the "tolerant" left. Sad. Chinese Proverb: “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion"
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POPSObama Disrespects Fallen Soldiers Redstate says "And Mr. President, posting rules prevent me from noting my real opinion of you, but you really do need to learn how to act around people who are your betters. You make Jimmy Carter look like a statesman."
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POPSMary Cheney's baby brings out conservative bile, hate, & bigotry
More choice comments re: Dick Cheney's impending grandchild: -I respect Dick Cheney, but I don't understand why he is allowing his daughter to take innocent children into her lesbianic home. Can anyone claim that these kids won't be scarred for life? So sad. -Also repugnant, IMNSHO, is the use of "they are expecting a child" when, for obvious reasons "they" could not POSSIBLY have conceived. -As much as I don't like it, God will have to sort this out in the end. -she’s an emancipated adult. Mary Cheney is poorly exercising her free will which she will have to answer for one day. -This should be made a criminal act- it is selfish and does emotional violence to the child. - hese homosexual couples have to use a whole series of bizarre test tube procedures in order to obtain their human play toy. There is nothing natural or loving about it. Ah, the smell of bigotry in the morning. After the death of the Rep. party, this is what history will remember.
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POPSIt's time to embrace American royalty About this latest hiring by NBC, Atrios observed: "if only the Villager values of nepotism and torture could be combined somehow." The American Prospect's Adam Serwer quicky noted that they already have been: "Liz Cheney." Liz Cheney is really the perfect face of Washington's political culture, a perfect manifestation of all the rotting diseases that define it and a pure expression of what our country has become and the reasons for its virtual ruin. She should really be on every political TV show all day every day. It's almost as though things can't really be expressed thoroughly without including her. Jenna Bush as a new NBC "reporter" on The Today Show -- at a time when every media outlet is firing and laying off real reporters -- is a very nice addition though.
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POPSLiz Cheney Accidentally(?) Lets the Truth Fly Cheney is putting on the “airs of the righteous” and the main stream media is eating it up. In truth, he is scared of being prosecuted and has conducted a campaign to reduce public support for a criminal inquiry. Cheney’s daughter Liz revealed that fear of prosecution is indeed a motivating factor in the former vice president’s current media campaign. Why isn’t G W Bush out there defending his policies? Because Cheney was in charge all along and perhaps because Liz Cheney is being groomed to be a 2012 candidate.
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