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Eric Holder Tells Press in Off-the-Record Meeting: We Won’t Spy on You Anymore

May 31, 2013 at 12:16am

I’m curious why nobody is talking about the other issue involved here. Regardless what you think about the scandal of the DOJ going after reporters, tapping their phones and emails, there is another problem that’s not being addressed. If we are to believe the Administration, the investigation of Fox’s Rosen, and the AP reporters was to track down a person or persons responsible for leaking national security secrets. If the leaker(s) committed a crime, then the reporters involved were likely inducing the person(s) to commit a crime, and were complicit in its commission.. Anyone who aids and abets a crime, or who helps in the concealment of a crime, is guilty to the same extent as if they committed the crime itself.

We seem to have come to a point where the news media is some sort of protected class that can do whatever it deems to be necessary, regardless of how legal its actions may be, just to get the story. I’m sorry, but if they are willing to do that, they should also be willing to pay the price for their actions. I am no fan of Eric Holder, and even less of a fan of President Obama, but I think these episodes are best described as an Administration trying to get the ends to justify the means. The ends may well be justified, but the means clearly were not. This sounds an awful lot like a couple of kids arguing who’s more to blame for their bad behavior.
Parking Tickets Issued to Cars Destroyed in Violent Sweden Riots — Conservative Site Posts Proof

May 27, 2013 at 7:52pm

Take a look at what’s coming to our shores, to add to the burden that’s already here. Interesting to note that the Democrats defeated an amendment to their flawed immigration bill that would have denied welfare, food stamps, etc., to non-citizens. So long as we have an open door, by policy or by default, and allow those here illegally to draw on public services intended for our citizens, they will come here in droves. I get why the Democrats defeated the amendment. If it became law, there would be all manner of riots here. It’s what’s happening in Europe where they have had to cut back on social services because their economies are in the toilet and not generating enough revenue to fund the welfare state.
UN Rep Poses With Map of ‘Palestine’ — But Something’s Missing

May 14, 2013 at 7:11pm

You have to wonder whether they’d be able to buy the crayons they used to draw the map if we got out of the UN. It’s a bloated, ineffective and inefficient organization that cost more to do less than our own bloated government! Time to stop funding them and tell them to go somewhere else with their hate. I’m quite sure that NYC could find a better use for that prime real estate they occupy, and motorists would certainly be pleased with the extra parking spaces that would become available.
MSNBC Anchor’s ‘Easy’ Solution to Ending Poverty: ‘Giving People Money’

May 13, 2013 at 7:57am

Sometimes you just can’t fix stupid! If everyone was given enough money to bring their total net worth to $1 million, guess what? The poverty line would be $1 million, inflation would be rampant with too much money chasing too few goods, and most everybody who got the money would be broke within a year or two. It’s good that this moron has a job as a talking head and not an economist!
90-Year-Old WWII Vet Still Optimistic After Being Stuck in His Car for 3 Days: ‘I Can’t Complain’

May 8, 2013 at 8:34pm

Does anybody find it strange that a 90 year old man, who falls in a Publix supermarket and breaks his wrist and hip, is ‘helped’ to his car? Nobody at the supermarket bothered to call for help? I hope that you recover quickly and completely sir, and then sue the bejesus out of that supermarket chain. Talk about a lack of caring that borders on elder abuse!
Sparks Fly at Tense Senate Immigration Hearing: ‘I Never Said That!’

April 22, 2013 at 4:40pm

Pay close attention to the details of this bill. If it legalizes – or regularizes them depending on your point of view – anyone who has already violated the laws, other than by entering or staying here illegally, has to be excluded from the bill. Moreover, they need to enforce the provisions of existing immigration law. It is unlawful to give a green card to anyone who is likely to become a public charge. That means that anyone who applies for this quasi amnesty must be able to prove that they are not now, nor will they be in the future, on welfare, receiving food stamps, etc. If they are on any of these benefit programs, they need to be taken off them immediately, and made to repay the monies before being allowed to remain.

They also need to streamline the process for deporting illegals. No more endless hearings and appeals. The only question that should be asked is, “Are you here legally?” Anyone who seeks asylum gets an immediate hearing, not one six months away, during which time they get to disappear until the next amnesty. I fear that this bill is not going to do anything like these reforms. Remember, if it’s being promoted by organized labor and left wing groups, or the Republicans who would put cheap labor ahead of law, order and security, cannot be good for America.
Report: Boy Scouts Set to Abolish Gay Ban

April 19, 2013 at 12:36pm

In reply to am123.

Where in the world did you come up with the idea that gay men have a predisposition to pedophilia? As someone pointed out already, Jerry Sandusky, just one example, was a pedophile who was married and had children of his own. Pedophilia is a disorder all its own, and crosses all age groups and is not restricted to men, or even gay men. Consider the number of women teachers who have been arrested for having sex with young boys. Are you saying that they are secretly lesbians? I have a hot tip for you and everyone else on this comment board. Same sex behavior exists in virtually every group of mammals [humans are a higher form of mammal by the way]. Indeed, there are only two groups of animals where it’s not known to exist. Get a grip AM123.
Report: Boy Scouts Set to Abolish Gay Ban

April 19, 2013 at 12:27pm

If there is such a thing as a ‘gay gene’ which is either responsible for, or predisposes someone to, same sex attraction, wouldn’t denying them the same rights, privileges and immunities that everyone else is entitled to be discrimination? Think about it this way. We know that some people are born with congenital forms of mental illness, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease, blindness, etc., yet we don’t discriminate against them for something which is beyond their control.

If same sex attraction is a behavioral issue, then wouldn’t it be beneficial for an impressionable young man to have good role modeling so that he may learn a more socially acceptable sexual role? Notice I didn’t use the terms appropriate or normal, since these are certainly movable targets these days. You really cannot come up with a cogent argument against allowing gays to marry, adopt children, or just enjoy the same rights as a heterosexual person.

I admit that many gay men and women don’t want to be treated equally. They want to be in a special, protected, class of persons, and I oppose that, the same as I oppose making a special and protected class out of any individual or group. Just stop the discrimination based on race, creed, color, nation of origin, gender and, yes, sexual orientation. A person should be judged upon his or her own merits, not some artificial standard of acceptability based on irrational prejudices!
As Fox News Reporter Faces Jail Time for Protecting Source, Jake Tapper Wants to Know: ‘Where’s the Public Outrage?’

April 8, 2013 at 11:46pm

I think the thrust of the argument here is that a reporter has the unquestioned and absolute right to aid and abet a criminal act – obstruction of justice. The media is overlooking a very important point. It does not matter how guilty Holmes may look, he has the right to a speedy and public trial by an unbiased jury of his peers. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that the notebook in question was ruled inadmissible at his trial. By giving this notebook to the reporter, who then published its contents, in whole or in part, the pool of prospective jurors is necessarily exposed to information that they may not, under the law, consider. This act not only violated the judge’s ‘gag’ order, it also has the potential to deprive Holmes of the due process and equal protection of the law. So whose rights are being infringed here? You can say that both parties have a dog in the fight, but I would come down on the side of Holmes being able to get a fair trial. The reporter here had a responsibility to make certain that her reporting did not infringe Holmes’ rights. We all have the right to freedom of speech, but we also must be ready to take the consequences for exercising that right. A reporter is not special, or immune from the laws that we all must abide by. I feel sorry for her if she goes to jail over her desire to scoop the competition, even if she was violating the law and the judge’s ‘gag’ order.
Which Democrat and Former Top Obama Official Does Bill Ayers Consider a ‘Right-Wing Troglodyte’ Pushing ‘Jim Crow’?

April 3, 2013 at 10:39pm

If Rahm has Ayers pissed at him, he must be doing the right things!