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Archive for June 21st, 2010
Illegal Aliens Openly Promote Communism at Atlanta Rally
Monday, June 21st, 2010June 21, 2010 – Federalist No. 39
Monday, June 21st, 2010Guest Blogger to Constituting America
John S. Baker, Jr.,
the Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law at Louisiana State University
Federalist 39 answers attacks that the proposed Constitution is not “republican” and not “federal.” In his response, Publius effectively redefines both terms.
Claiming the proposed government is not “strictly republican” is a serious charge. Publius recognizes this, saying “no other form would be reconcileable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or the honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.”
The term “republican” ( Latin “res publica,” or “public thing”) had an uncertain meaning. Common to its various understandings would have been an opposition to an hereditary monarchy and aristocracy. Republicanism referred to self-government, but proponents and opponents of the new Constitution had very different ideas about what that meant.
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Legal battle over Arizona’s SB 1070 heating up
Monday, June 21st, 2010The legal battle over Arizona’s controversial immigration law is heating up. It’s pitting President Obama against Governor Jan Brewer.
Arizona is gearing up for a legal battle with the Obama administration over the state’s controversial immigration law. Set to go into effect at the end of July. Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer says it is “outrageous.”
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Napolitano: Internet Monitoring Needed to Fight Homegrown Terrorism
Monday, June 21st, 2010“Her speech is sign of the maturing of the administration on this issue,” said Stewart Baker, former undersecretary for policy with the Department of Homeland Security. “They now appreciate the risks and the trade-offs much more clearly than when they first arrived, and to their credit, they’ve adjusted their preconceptions.”
WASHINGTON — Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday.
As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to constantly balance Americans’ civil rights and privacy with the need to keep people safe, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
But finding that balance has become more complex as homegrown terrorists have used the Internet to reach out to extremists abroad for inspiration and training. Those contacts have spurred a recent rash of U.S.-based terror plots and incidents.
“The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet,” Napolitano told a gathering of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
Napolitano’s comments suggest an effort by the Obama administration to reach out to its more liberal, Democratic constituencies to assuage fears that terrorist worries will lead to the erosion of civil rights.
[Monitoring is not the problem. Is Echelon broke down? Her profile of "homegrown terror" in her previous work (PDF) is the problem. Will she use the Bloomberg terror test?]
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Hundreds urged to evacuate ahead of AZ wildfire
Monday, June 21st, 2010
AP News
Firefighters worked through the night against a blaze that erupted Sunday morning and sent a huge plume of smoke over parts of the region.
Five helicopters and eight air tankers dropped fire suppression chemicals and as 300 firefighters worked feverishly to contain the blaze.
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Barrack Obama getting cheaper, but will pay my taxes.
Monday, June 21st, 2010Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:11 — 6.8MB)
I reported in May that Barrack Obama was going to to send me 5.5 million. Of course, it was a scam. Obama follows the principle outlined by Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince. “…for to be liberal with the property of others does not take from your reputation, but adds to it. What injures you is to give away what is your own.”
I pointed out in the previous article that people are probably getting soaked by this scam because of the Obama “totally free” promises of health care and stimulus and so-on. I, also, pointed out that there was no way that people would believe that people are actually evoking the name of Obama in their prize scams.
I cannot believe that the same guy called me back. He actually said he was Peter Washington, at first, but then changed his name. He changed the scam around, but it was the same type of scam.
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