I’ll be the first to admit I have not followed the current attempt to pass immigration reform as closely as I should. I have focused on other issues and between that and me having a real life, immigration reform has been on the back burner for me. Not that it isn’t important, but other things have taken precedent. That doesn’t mean I am not aware that the powers that be in both parties are → Read More 
I wrote last week about how the Obama administration has specifically forbade federal law enforcement officials from spying on Mosques. That news came as no surprise to anyone who has paid attention to how Obama has conducted himself during his first term in office. In one of the comments on that post, it was said that we all know there are evangelical conservatives who are issuing veiled threats against our democratic process when they → Read More 
The news has been chock full of scandals for the past few weeks. Anyone who is paying attention can easily tell the Obama administration is finally showing their true colors. While they may not be in danger of complete collapse, especially if the main stream media continues their support, they are clearly hurting. If they were in the stock market, I wouldn’t want to take their stock options. It wouldn’t be a safe bet. 
When the revelations first came out that the NSA was spying on Americans by collecting phone records from Verizon, the Obama administration has defended their actions. They have made the claim, repeatedly, that the program was vital in their efforts to stop terrorists from doing their deeds of destruction. They have made the same claim about PRIZM, the program that allows the federal government to search through Internet traffic. As they have made these → Read More 
President Obama came out last Friday and defended his administration’s unprecedented grabbing of phone records and Internet data. He basically said we could not have 100% security and expect to keep 100% of our privacy. He said we should just trust him and his administration to do the right thing. Excuse me while I go gag on that proposition…Now that I have composed myself, let’s deal with this issue of trusting the Obama administration → Read More 
I do not consider myself a naive person, in that I understand our government can not tell us everything it is doing. There are sometimes, realities that can not be ignored, and national security dictates that secrets be kept from the knowledge of the general public. There is no doubt we are living in a changed country. The realities that surfaced after the attacks on 9/11 made us all realize just how deeply that → Read More 
I haven’t followed the court proceedings concerning Major Nidal Hasan as closely as some. I do know he is facing a court-martial for killing 13 and wounding 32 others November 5, 2009. There are a couple of very odd things about this. First, he has stated that he wants time to prepare a new defense strategy. He has admitted to the shooting, but he says he was acting “in defense of others” when he → Read More 
We know that the Department of Justice has been after phone records at the Associated Press and Fox News. We know they used a court order, one they attempted to keep secret, to obtain the emails of James Rosen. If those two items trouble you, this next item should make you start looking over your shoulder with more than a little trepidation. According to new reports, the Nationals Security Agency has a secret court → Read More 
I have sat here listening to the remarks made by Representative Jim McDermott and a couple of things jump out at me. First, I find it hard to believe one of our elected officials is so callous to the people he is supposed to be representing. It makes me want to ask him what makes him so special. Second, the words and phrases he t uses to describe the work being done by conservative → Read More 
At the risk of boring my regular readers with the same news, over and over and over, here we go again. We know the IRS intentionally targeted conservative groups. Some of the low-level IRS employees are tired of being blamed for the fiasco and are coming clean about where their orders came from. And now we know that the IRS isn’t the only government agency to stack the deck against conservative groups. Enter the → Read More |
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