by Cindy Sheehan, OpEdNews.com The Democratic leadership has made a mockery of our Constitution by excising “awkward” parts out of it. For example, by invoking “Title X” (Contempt of Congress) which is a harsher punishment against protesters that leads to harsher penalties, such as being banished from Capital Hill for a determined amount of time,…
Jane Smiley, Huffington Post …Guess what? There is no such thing as “national security”; it’s a concept that not only hasn’t been defined, it can’t be defined. It is a psychological state. The very phrase describes an impossibility. All boundaries in the U.S. and in every other country are porous. Planes come and go, as…
Michael Calderone, The Politico When the New York Times published a front page story Sunday about the United States’ and Pakistan’s joint clandestine efforts to protect nuclear weapons, the newspaper offered a glimpse into a “highly classified program” the Bush administration long objected to seeing in print. That is, apparently, until now. In the article’s…
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times The U.S. attorney in Minnesota, whose clashes with career prosecutors came to symbolize the problems of the Justice Department under Alberto R. Gonzales, resigned Monday to accept a less-visible post at Justice Department headquarters in Washington. The reassignment of Rachel K. Paulose, 10 days into the tenure of…
