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Overturning decades of legal precedent, a bitterly divided United States Supreme Court today gave aid and comfort to the enemy by declaring unconstitutional a 2006 law stripping “Guantanamo prisoners of the right to file so-called habeas corpus petitions,” reported Bloomberg news today. Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter supported Anthony Kennedy’s [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Judicial Activism, Rule of Law, War on Terror at 2:12 PM UTC
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Last year’s release of the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) produced a firestorm of criticism directed at President Bush. The President had consistently portrayed Iran as a dangerous foe determined to acquire nuclear weapons, but the 2007 NIE seemed to contradict that determination. Democratic Senator Dennis Kucinich led a chorus of accusers heck-bent on inflicting another [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Politics, War on Terror at 6:39 PM UTC
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Now that Barack Obama has pretty much wrapped up the Democratic nomination and considering the latest Zogby poll showing Obama holding a commanding lead over John McCain, a betting man would wager that Senator Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States. The good news is we have just over five months to [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, War on Terror at 3:35 PM UTC
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“Tens of thousands of American Air Force and naval airmen were waterboarded as part of their survival training,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official, according to the LA Times. Lo and behold, the U.S. military “has subjected its own personnel to the method to prepare them for the possibility of being captured.” Putting the [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, War on Terror at 4:30 PM UTC
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Noon. Int. Delmonico’s Rest. Screen Writer pitches movie idea to Motion Picture Executive:
SW: “OK, OK! We open with scenes of starving children, people dying in hospitals, raw sewage running into the ocean, hundreds of thousands of hysterical people fleeing to a neighboring country for food and other basic necessities.”
MPE: “Hundreds of thousands?”
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, War on Terror at 1:41 PM UTC
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