I told you he wasn't going to close Guantanamo in a year as promised.
Fact checking the Attorney General's statements about trying terrorist KSM in a civilian court. Holder has made a bad decision.
Code Pink member, Obama donor, high level Obama fund raiser- she's met with the Taliban.
The Whitehouse calls its version of scraping and bowing 'diplomacy through deference.' The New York Times notices, as do some other outlets (who call it kowtowing):
The New York Times begins its news report today on the president trip’s to China: Whether by White House design or Chinese insistence, President Obama has steered clear of public meetings with Chinese liberals, free press advocates and even average Chinese during his first visit to China, showing a deference to the Chinese leadership’s aversions to such interactions that is unusual for a visiting American president.
Mr. Obama held a “town hall” meeting with students on Monday. But the students were carefully vetted and prepped for the event by the government, participants said. And the Chinese authorities, wielding a practiced mix of censorship and diplomatic pressure, succeeded in limiting Mr. Obama’s exposure to a point where a third of some 40 Beijing university students interviewed Tuesday were unaware that he had just met in Shanghai with their peers.
From NewBusters:
During Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stumped Attorney General Eric Holder on what should have been a fairly routine question for America's top law enforcement official.Maybe more surprisingly, NPR reported it at its website.
As NPR's Frank James noted, "The exchange started with Graham stumping Holder with a question one would have thought the attorney general would have been prepared for."
The question:
Holden did not know. Nor had he given any thought to whether or not Osama Bin Laden would have to be give Miranda Rights if he were captured.
Can you give me a case in United States history where a enemy combatant caught on a battlefield was tried in civilian court?
I think this exchange demonstrates the myopic vision of this administration.
HOlden's lack of preparation for it also demonstrates the narrow minded inability of his minders, like other administrative White House employes, to see any point of view other than their own. Even if they do not agree with that other point of view, they need to be able to imagine it, because this is how you prepare yourself for questions like these.
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Ontario: 24 dead of swine flu in 72 hours.
An Afghan brought to the UK when his plane was hijacked has lived there now for five years. He converted to Christianity (there's no question about whether the conversion was sincere), and then the UK wanted to send him back. He sought asylum because his life is in danger (it is illegal to convert from Islam). He eventually won, but I could not believe this argument:
Lawyers for the Home Office argued he would be able to practise his faith if he found like-minded Christians in Kabul and ‘kept his head down’.
To really put the home-office legal beagle argument in perspective:
The nine men who hijacked the airliner threatening to kill all 160 passengers unless they were granted asylum.
The gang were later jailed but cleared on appeal and freed to live comfortable lives in London with their families on benefits worth £150,000 a year.
In 2006, the gang were given ‘discretionary leave’ to remain in Britain as Afghanistan was ‘unsafe’ to return to.
This story of a conversion resulting in death threats and imprisonment in Egypt is also disturbing.
Herman Von Rompuy may become the next President of the EU. Who is he?
Interesting bit of history- how Hitler and the Nazis attempted to co-opt Christmas (even replacing St. Nicholas with Odin). Pin It
