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• Ex-Aide to Ron Paul Makes Stunning Claims About Old Boss: Anti-Israel, 9/11 Truther, Doesn’t Believe U.S. Had Any Business Fighting Hitler

  December 27, 2011 at 3:43pm

  In reply to Detroit paperboy.

  If these allegations are true I would point out to RP that (1) Japan attacked us and (2) Germany declared war on us unilaterally after the Japanese sneak attack. Sounds like justified self defense to me and our entry to WWII was a declared war, which is one of RP’s main objections to our current “wars of intervention and adventure.” Much of what RP says makes sense at some level but then he says things like this which make you question the very foundation of his sanity.

• California City Fines Couple for Holding Bible Study in Their Home

  September 19, 2011 at 1:00pm

  In reply to barackem.

  @Barackem, Well, bible study IS apparently a problem, they were apparently fined for either activity. The state (and by inference the home owners neighbors whom the state represents) only have an interest in this if the gatherings (of any kind) are demonstrably creating a nuisance by, for instance, parked cars blocking driveways, roadways etc. Without a demonstrable nuisance, the state has no reasonable standing to act. This goes against any notion of property rights and, in this case, religious freedom, both of which are core tenants of our constitution and the principals underlying our government. Without such demonstrable cause, and a little shared inconvenience is NOT cause the state should not act and doing so is wrong. If this is targeted because the meetings are religious then this is criminal.

• Bill Clinton: Obama Should Ignore Congress on Debt, Invoke 14th Amendment

  July 19, 2011 at 12:55pm

  In reply to ABT123.

  Whether by design or by accident, the tea-party republican controlled house is careening towards forcing the Presidents hand on the debt ceiling. Frankly, time is, or has run out. I haven’t checked today but if they pass the cut, cap, and balance bill I believe they will (and should) come out and say, “That’s it, that all we are willing to do.” They should then follow-up by passing a series of laws to send to the senate to deal with not raising the debt ceiling, laws that require the Executive Branch to use existing revenues to pay (1) debt, (2) military and (3) necessary social programs (SS and Medicare) in that order. This would limit the President‘s and senate’s options. They can accept cut, cap and balance or choose door number 2, no debt ceiling increase, which is, after all, just another form of balanced budget violently and immediately executed. The other door, the one Clinton recommends in this article and which the Obama administration has been floating for weeks is an impeachable offense and will, at its very least, flip the switch on who owns this debt, bully pulpit or not. As for the constitutionality of unilateral executive action given our roughly $200 billion in monthly revenue, only a fool would believe Obama has that option. Hope they try it.

• Bernie Goldberg to O’Reilly: Geraldo Wouldn‘t Defend Anthony Verdict if Victim Was ’Hispanic Immigrant’

  July 6, 2011 at 11:05am

  In reply to thomasnash1027.

  I agree. I ended up watching way to much of this trial because I was struct by how hard the prosecution tried to make the flimsy evidence mount up to more than it was. At some point I found myself–libertarian and constitutional conservative that I am–seeing the government run amuck. The Judge was also caught up in the attempted lynching, what did Judge Napolitano call him, “a prosecutor in black robes…” Given the lack of hard evidence I am amazed that they pursued the death penalty. Regardless what you think of Ms. Anthony’s complicity or guilt, the state’s prosecution team did not prove their case for (1) pre-meditation, (2) motive, and (3) cause of death and in a larger sense failed to link it to the Mother in a way that warranted death.

  If we make the leap that all this “flimsy stuff” means she was *proven* guilty then what happens when the government tries similar tactics on innocents when they want to prove some other crime? Consider, for instance, some of the weak “scientific evidence” the Judge allowed into the court. What precedents are we setting. Frankly, I was troubled by the whole affair more for how the process proceeded then what happened in the end.

  We either believe in the principals of our republic, the law and individual rights or we don’t. When viewed from this context, the jury made the right choice. They upheld the law, some of them I am sure, while holding their noses…

• Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey Chants Anti-Israeli Slogans and Says She Is Very ‘Proud’ of the Anti-Israel Activist Who Tried to Stop Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress

  June 23, 2011 at 1:52pm

  In reply to NickDeringer.

  @ERabin

  You could site a humans right violation link or international law violation for any country on the planet, including ours, how might a search for human rights violations respond for Libya, Syria, Eqypt, Saudi Arabia etc.? We do give money to Israel for defense and that practice is questionable from a economic perspective but not a defense perspective. Israel is set upon by the whole of the Islamic world that surrounds them. That world would destroy them in an instance if they could. Those opposing forces ARE evil. Where are your protestations of them? Israel will survive because they have the means to survive (100+ nuclear weapons insure that) and the Islamic world must accept that or they will be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust of they own making.

• The ‘Murky’ Details: This is How the OBL Raid Went Down

  May 2, 2011 at 5:01pm

  In reply to beckisnuts.

  To BECKISNUTS: Humm, as to a fact based reply. If indeed Ahmadinejad is being co-opted by Khamenei, which is by no means certain given the opaque nature of Iranian political intrigue, then this is what? A moderating turn of events? Are we safer with Khamenei or a new Khamenei protege then with Ahmadinejad? It can be said that Ahmadinejad was the more vocal Mahdi proponent but he was just Khamenei’s mouth piece. I don’t think it affects much of anything really unless the country overthrows the lot of them, that would be significant. As for OBL, he had been relegated to “spiritual leader” status many years ago and was not operationally significant. If Al Qaeda is weak today then it was weak last week. If anything OBL transitioning from insignificant symbol to martyr for the radicals is a step up for the nut job. Are we safer, not in the least. This death is just really, really, satisfying. The issues related to the Islamic radical threat, muslim instability and the probable war they will ignite are as unsettled today as yesterday.

  So, what are you but a single issue guy who trolls this website to throw grenades because he has, apparently, nothing better to do. You don’t really say anything meaningful, just throw a random grenade to start a fight. Crawl out of momma’s basement and get a life.

• A Beautiful Mind? 12-Year-Old Boy Genius Sets Out to Disprove Big Bang

  March 25, 2011 at 5:13pm

  To : Gold Coin and Economic News.
  What the kid was saying, I think, about carbon is that if it was not created (in sufficient quantity) in the big band then it would have taken more then the 14+ billion years they claim the universe has been around to create enough of it. The life and death cycle of stars would mean the universe would have to be MUCH older but if its older than what we currently believe then the main tenant of the theory would not make sense, that is, tying the universe’s expansion rate to to its age. A similar problem exists with the event horizon, that is, the universe is too large given the time it has had to expand. They try patching the theory by changing the rules during the early stages of the expansion (for instance, that the speed of light constraint may not have been in play in the early moments of creation).

  Its all interesting stuff and the theory has always appeared weak from the 50 thousand foot level, I don’t have the math to ask deeper questions. Good luck kid.