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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Presidents On U.S.-Muslim Ties
Obama Promotes Islam.
Obama-Clinton emphasized words such as "peace"; Bush-Reagan used "peace" less. Obama-Clinton emphasized "war" less; Bush-Reagan used "war" more. Obama-Clinton emphasized "freedom" less; Bush-Reagan used "freedom" more. Obama-Clinton de-emphasized "democracy"; Bush-Reagan used "democracy" more. Obama-Clinton emphasized "Islam"; Bush-Reagan de-emphasized "Islam."
By comparing their respective speeches, you elicit a clear contrast in the use of words and thus what concepts or ideas they emphasize.
Americans Declining Confidence in Institutions
Congress Ranks Last in Confidence in Institutions
This year's poll also finds a 15-point drop in high confidence in the presidency, to 36% from 51% in June 2009. Over the same period, Obama's approval rating fell by 11 points, from 58% to 47%.
Another interesting statistic is that although confidence has been declining, which is the general trend, the top four highest ranked institutions have traditionally been associated with the right-wing in American politics: military, small business, police, and church or organized religion.
The military continues its long-standing run as the highest-rated U.S. institution. Small business and the police occupy second and third places, respectively. These three top-tier institutions all earn high confidence from a majority of Americans, something no other institution achieves this year.
The military has been No. 1 in Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions list continuously since 1998, and has ranked No.1 or No. 2 almost every year since its initial 1975 measure.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Kagan: 1st Sharia (Islamic law) Compliant Supreme Court Justice?
To simply promote study about sharia law is not objectionable but Kagan has honored those who promote sharia law in Pakistan. Likewise, Kagan has been criticized for promoting Noah Feldman, author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, but it is not the topic per se which is objectionable, the rise of Islamist states are an important area of study. It is rather what are Kagan, Feldman, and perhaps most importantly, Islamists advocating for the rise of Islamist states. In short, is it a good thing or a bad thing based on what I would argue is a radically opposed understanding of law as based on the American Constitution, having profound implications for the role of religion in society, the basis of citizenship, and the notion of natural rights.
Stated baldly, per Feldman, that the contemporary world is oddly enough experiencing a re-birth of Islamic states and is thus worthy of study, I whole-heartedly concur, although it is a trend I view warily. On the other hand, when Feldman asserts, as he does, that "Americans have never fully resolved the question of whether the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and property preexist the U.S. Constitution or derive from it " (Rise, p. 13), then I have to take issue with Feldman. The Founders believed inalienable rights arise from a Supreme Being or Power, i.e., God.
Feldman does develop his notion into an even more problematic area. He argues that an opposing (and I would argue one that is faithful to the American Constitution)
"viewpoint that emerges from inward looking constitutional thought is that international bodies (and hence, the law they produce) lack the legitimacy of direct, democratic procedures. The outward looking concept is characterized by the view that the constitution is the paradigm of the rule of law and should embody justice in governance. This view embraces international organizations as an institutional link between universal values of freedom and justice and the implementation of the rule of law." Cf. "Feldman calls for outward-looking view of Constitution"
I believe you have the outlines demarcated between two substantially opposing viewpoints of the law. On the one hand, do natural rights precede individuals and are guaranteed by God? Or, does the law arise from a universally human and international understanding of justice? The first is the American understanding of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness while the latter is the international and contingent nature of humanly applied justice.
Professor Feldman, who joined the faculty of HLS in 2007, is a distinguished scholar in the areas of constitutional design, law and religion, and legal history. His most recent book, which examines the history of Sharia law, is titled The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. His three previous books are Divided by God: America's Church and State Dilemma, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building, and After Jihad, America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy. His experience before joining the HLS faculty included a role as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and service as law clerk to Justice David Souter at the U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1992 with an A.B. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, was a Rhodes Scholar, received a D.Phil from Oxford University in Islamic Thought in 1994, and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997.
The Constitutional Judiciary in the Muslim World:
Its Influence on the Interpretation of Constitutional and Legislative Texts
1970 to 2008 (November 12-14, 2008)
November 12
Welcome by the Dean of Harvard Law School, Professor Elena Kagan
Paper Abstracts
1. Wednesday, November 12, 9:30 - 10:15 am: The 20th century judiciary of the Muslim World: its historical emergence (Adel Omar SHERIF)
The purpose of this presentation is to shed light on the emergence and spread of the specialized model of the constitutional judiciary in a number of the Islamic countries during the last third of the 20th Century. We are going to highlight the interesting role it has been playing in shaping the constitutional, political, societal, economical dimensions of the systems of government and the citizens’ daily life of those countries through the noteworthy influence it has continuously left on the process of interpreting the constitutional and legislative texts, especially since the 1970s until today.
The scholarly literature is still debating whether the constitutional judiciary in the Muslim World has come into existence responding to public pressures, outside influence or true intentions on the rulers’ part to introduce effective judicial, and more democratic, reforms. These scholarly debates have led to different theories on the phenomenal evolution of the constitutional judiciary that reflects a progressive development of the legal thought in the Muslim World. These theories will be evaluated in the course of the presentation.
The increasing trend towards inscribing Islamic Shari’a principles into state constitutions in Islamic countries and the challenges that the constitutional judiciary has met with, in its attempt to enforce these norms, will be analyzed through an examination of its jurisprudence as it has evolved over the past forty years or so.
2. Wednesday, November 12, 11:15 - 11:45 am:
The introduction of the “Principles of the Islamic Shari’a” as a major source of the national legislation in the constitutions of major Muslim countries, 1970-2008 (Baber JOHANSEN)
The introduction of constitutional amendments in the 1970s and 1980 that made “the principles of the Islamic Shari’a” a major or even the major source of national legislation has, on the one hand, given a new Islamic dimension to constitutional law, it has, on the other, raised the question of the relation between this amendment and the other articles of the constitution. Is the Islamizing amendment an article above or in the constitution? Do all other articles of the constitution have to be interpreted in its light or is the constitution one body in which the new amendment has to be interpreted in a way that guarantees the rights and freedoms protected by the constitution? In the last instance the question is how, if the Islamizing amendment is above the rest of the constitution, the constitution can guarantee its status as being above the positive law and the constitution.
In the debates on constitutional law this question has been discussed in great detail and from multiple and contradictory positions. The discussion in this paper will center on the conditions under which this amendment has been introduced into the constitution of Pakistan, the constitution of Egypt and the constitution of the UAE and how the legal debates and the positions of the Supreme Courts differ with regard to this question.
3. Wednesday, November 12, 2:00 - 2:30 pm:
The emergence of the constitutional judiciary in the Arab World
(Salsabil KLIBI and Ghazi GHERAIRI)
The introduction of a constitutional judiciary in the political regimes of Muslim countries is part of a process of reform of the political power of those states which has its origin in the Nahda [Renaissance] that these countries initiated since the 19th century. Since their beginning these reforms saw in the occidental world their source of inspiration if not of pure and simple importation.
But the reformers of the Muslim World are constantly nagged by one question: “ Is this occidental model on which the awakening of the Muslim World depends compatible with the precepts of the shari’a”?
Until today, this question has never ceased to torment the minds in this part of the world. This fact explains the tension that characterizes the reform process of the Muslim World since the 19th century, a tension between the imperatives of Modernity and all their implications concerning the status and the role of religion in the exercise of political power but also between the concept of the individual and his relations with the society and the political power on the one hand, the precepts of Islam on the other.
4. Wednesday, November 12, 3:00 – 3:30 pm
Landmark decisions of the Tunisian constitutional judiciary
(Ghazi GHERAIRI)
The modern history of Tunisia shows us the remarkable presence, since the 19th century, of a strong constitutional consciousness, expressed as well in the discourse of claiming rights as in the official language. It is even possible to speak of a Tunisian constitutionalism.
In spite of this historical basis the institution of an organ that controls the constitutional character of statutes is of very recent date still largely imperfect.
In fact, the Tunisian Constitutional Council is a young institution created in 1988. Its contribution to the crystallisation of fundamental principles of Tunisian Law is still at its very beginnings.
But it is possible to detach a certain number of principles that the Council has either proclaimed, reaffirmed or clarified. These principles are held together by the task of combining in one system the relations between public institutions on the one hand, the fundamental rights of individuals on the other.
5. Thursday, November 13, 9:00 - 9:30 am
Changes in the Family Law from 1950-2008: the case of Malaysia (Abdul Hamid MOHAMAD)
Malaysia is a Federation of 13 States. The Federation provides the legislative lists for the Federal Parliament and the State Legislative Assemblies. While most laws are a Federal matter and within the jurisdiction of the common law courts, Islamic law, including family law, is a State matter within the jurisdiction of the Shari’ah courts. To avoid conflict of jurisdictions between the two courts, the Federal Constitution was amended. However, while some jurisdictional issues have been settled by the Federal Court (Supreme Court), some issues still persist and require legislative intervention.
With the establishment of the Shari’ah courts, laws, procedural and substantive, had to be codified. Procedural laws, civil and criminal, of the common law courts were adopted, with necessary modifications to make them Shari’ah-compliance. In the codification of the law of evidence and family law, laws from both sources were adopted even though a large portion of which were from the Shari’ah source.
I foresee that Muslim majority countries will adopt principles of both common law (or civil law) and the Shari’ah and that there will be a disintegration of the mazhabs within the Shari’ah itself.
6. Thursday, November 13, 9:30 - 10:00 am
The evolution of Family Law in Morocco from 1950 to 2008 (Miloud Laksir)
The presentation deals with the evolution of family law in Morocco across three distinct periods in the history of Morocco.
1. Before Morocco became a French protectorate in 1912.
-Islamic Law and traditional rules were applied to Moroccan Muslims;
-Moroccan Jews had their own courts governed by Jewish family law;
-Foreigners living in Morocco were governed by their national family Law or by the provisions of bilateral agreements.
2. During the French Protectorate.
-Islamic Judge remained in charge of the implementation of Islamic family Law as far as Moroccan Muslims were concerned;
-As for Moroccan Jews, they continued to be ruled by the principles of Jewish family law;
-Modern courts were established for non-Muslim foreigners to deal with their family cases, except for the Americans whose cases were considered by American consulates.
3. The period during which Morocco has been independent.
-In 1958, the first Family code was adopted and was amended in 1993, in particular its provision concerning marriage and matrimonial supervision;
-The year 2001, saw a major step forward accomplished in Morocco through the establishment of a Royal commission Chaired Chief Justice Dr Driss DAHAK, with the mandate of conducting a comprehensive revision of the provisions of the family code in force then. The four-year work of the Commission resulted in the drafting of a new family Law which was adopted by Parliament in February 2004.
-The provisions of the new Law stressed among other things, the principle of equality between husband and wife concerning the conclusion of the marriage contract.
It also placed the issue of divorce and marriage with more than one wife, under the court’s control strengthened the rights of the child and eased procedures regarding alimony.
7. Thursday, November 13, 10:00 - 10:30 am
The growing influence of the judiciary in the fields of marriage, maintenance, divorce and succession: the role of family jurisdictions
(Brahim BAHMANI)
Before the French protectorate was established in Morocco in 1912, Islamic law was applied in the country according to the Malikite rite. Then judges were appointed by the King in his capacity as Commander of the Faithful and the King would review decisions under special circumstances.
During the Protectorate period, the French introduced in Morocco, civil, criminal, commercial and property laws. However Moroccan Islamic law judges continued to be in charge of the implementation of Islamic law in cases concerning personal status, succession and properties without a title.
Furthermore, Moroccan Jews have their own judges who apply to them Jewish religious law. As to the French and other foreigners, residing in Morocco their family relations are governed by the provisions of the Royal Decree of 1913, which is still applied to non-Muslim foreigners.
When Morocco gained its independence, a code of personal status was introduced in 1958 and was amended in 1993. Then, in 2004, the present family Law of Morocco was adopted and entered into force.
The presentation consists of four parts: marriage, divorce, maintenance and succession. Each part will feature specific laws and how they were implemented by judges and how through this exercise, the Judiciary influenced the legislator in changing those laws.
Comments on key decisions will also constitute a major aspect of the presentation
8. Thursday, November 13, 10:30 - 11:00 am
Filiation and integration into the family of the orphaned child: an alternative approach (Walina Cheikh MAOULAININE)
The presentation will have two sections:
Section one will deal will the filiation of the child, the means to establish filiation, which are married life, confession of the father, and sexual intercourse by mistake (Choubha). This section will also touch on recourse concerning filiation through anathema oath and acknowledgement of fatherhood.
Section two will focus on the integration of the orphan into the family in the light of the Moroccan family law and other laws.
9. Thursday, November 13, 3:30 - 4:00 pm
The evolution of Tunisian Family Law between legislation and jurisprudence, from the enactment of the Code of Personal Status (1956 to the present) (Salsabil Klibi)
Tunisia did not proclaim the idea of laïcité in the text of its constitution, as Turkey did, but she has nevertheless opted for a positivist definition of its legal order.
In fact, in proclaiming the principle of the sovereignty of the people, a people that makes law through a parliament which it elects directly, Tunisia recognizes indirectly that the state is the only source of law and that the shari’a is limited to the role of a material source of law.
However, in its first article, the Tunisian Constitution proclaims also:” Tunisia is a free, independent and sovereign state. Arabic is its language and Islam is its religion”.
This ambiguity of the constitutional text inspires the question whether there is a possibility of a third way between a laic and a theocratic state.
Family Law is the privileged place for the unfolding of the sharia, even in states that want to demark themselves from it. In analyzing some court decisions on the liberty to contract marriage and on inheritance we will try to show the direction in which the consciousness of the Tunisian judge, reflecting without doubt the collective Tunisian consciousness, has – even if hesitatingly –developed. Starting with the idea that the shari’a can legitimately unfold in the law of a state that claims to pertain to Islam it has recognized the concept that Islam is but one characteristic of the society. Consequently, the judge who works out solutions to conflicts that refer to personal status law has to take into consideration or even make prevail other political values that have been given the status of legal rules of the highest rank.
A summary report of the conference is available as well.
China oil spill
The China oil spill received the immediate attention of President Hu Jintao; 40 oil-skimming boats and about 800 fishing boats were also deployed. I take it that the President, he must not be a golfer, got right to work in order to protect the nationalized oil industry. This is quite a contrast the American disaster and so far there is no word that the oil rigs will be shut down as in the U.S. case.
Nat Hentoff on Drones, Contemporary, Technological, Standing Military
"A standing military force with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."
James Madison
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Ask for Natural Born Citizen Status: In Fact Document It
July 2010 in front of El Arroyo in Austin on 5th Street: Arizona.
Hillary, Hint, Pakistanis Will Not Divulge Osama Since You Keep Giving Them Money
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/07/20/hillary_clinton_pakistani_government_knows_where_biden_laden_is.html
Short version of Hillary's nonsense about trying to bribe the Pakistanis.
Why Doesn't Pakistan Have Dams? Hospitals? They Don't Pay Taxes.
Why Doesn't Pakistan Have Dams? Hospitals? They Don't Pay Taxes
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/07/18/world/asia/1247468421481/tax-free-living-in-pakistan.html
There is no reason for the Pakistanis to pay taxes when the Americans will show up and build up their infrastructure for them.
Pakistan’s Elite Pay Few Taxes, Widening Gap
"If you take out morality from the country then this is what's going to happen."
Monday, July 19, 2010
`America Is Not for White People,' Brown Berets
Brown Beret protesters before Californians who rallied at Angel Stadium (Anaheim, CA) who support Arizona's SB 1070 law on July 13, 2010.
Racist NAACP Speaker
Shirley Sherrod, USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director, delivered at the NAACP's 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet.
The video shows Sherrod speaking of racial considerations being a factor for how much help she would give.
"The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing, but he had come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was, I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," Sherrod said.
"I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough," Sherrod said. "So that when he, I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him."
In the video, Sherrod also spoke of referring the white farmer to a white lawyer, thinking the latter would be more sympathetic because of race. "So I took him to a white lawyer that had attended some of training that we had provided because Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farm. So I figured if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him."
The NAACP had no immediate response.
"Modern Islam"- Ford Hall Forum Debate/ Boston- 04/22/10: Bilal Kaleem vs. Zuhdi Jasser
Boston's Ford Hall Forum hosted a debate on April 22, 2010 between Bilal Kaleem, the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Society of Boston's Exec. Dir. and Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. They were both asked to address the question of "A Modern Islam?" Their debate is very revealing about the core Islamist ideologies of the MAS and the ISB especially in light of recent developing controversies in the Boston area and nationally over the ideologies of the Islamic Society of Boston, the Muslim American Society, and their supporters. Watch the entire hour and a half (Parts 1-11) through the Q&A to get a sense of how AIFD and Dr. Jasser expose the ideology and agenda of the Islamists of the MAS and ISB. This is Part 1 of 11.
U.S. Taxpayers Fund Islamic Enclave in Philadelphia: $1.6 billion
A ‘Muslims-Only’ Enclave Thrives In Philadelphia by Paul Williams, PhD
The Jawala Scouts, for boys ages 7-17 are based on the group’s motto of “The Qu’ran is Our guide and the Sunnah is Our Practice!”
According to their website, Muslim training includes:
* MILITARY DRILLING
* ARCHERY
* WRESTLING
* MARTIAL ARTS
* HORSEMANSHIP
* CAMPING AND HIKING
* SURVIVAL TRAINING
* FIRST AID TRAINING
* FIRE ARMS SAFETY
World Wealth Redistribution: Pakistan $500 Million More
Clinton announced that American wealth will be re-distributed to Muslim-majority Pakistan to build dams and hospitals.
A hidden world, growing beyond control
The results of a two year Washington Post investigation. The article features an extensive, searchable database built by The Post about Top Secret America. From avatars and lasers to thermal cameras and fidget meters, this multimedia gallery takes a look at some of the latest technologies being developed by the government and private companies to thwart terrorists.
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.
The investigation's other findings include:
* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Obama's Transformation of American Religious Practice: Anti-First Amendment, Pro-Islam
Minor Changes in Language Could Mean Major Changes in Religious Freedom
As noted thirteen months ago here on Blog Smith, the Cairo speech was the beginning of a major re-definition of American religious practice. In June 2009, Obama substituted the common Islamic/international phrase of "freedom of worship," as has Clinton, as a replacement for the traditional 1st Amendment phrase freedom of religion.
Obama highlighted the change, barely noted in the U.S., in his Cairo speech stating, "Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it."
Brzezinski Describes Obama as the New Carter: Another Malaise
Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski: "I think we're now going through a phase in which there is a sense of pervasive malaise, which affects different groups in society in different ways."
Jimmy Carter Crisis of Confidence speech (1 of 4), July 15, 1979 aka the Malaise Speech.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Obama Violating the Logan Act in His Homeland of Kenya
In a new book documenting the connection between Islam and Obama-style socialism, a former top terrorism prosecutor chides the national media for failing to investigate Obama’s "borderline criminal" activities in his homeland of Kenya as a U.S. senator.
Andrew C. McCarthy, the former U.S. attorney who investigated the American embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, charges that Obama interfered in Kenya’s internal politics possibly in violation of the Logan Act.
The centuries-old law bars Americans who are "without authority of the United States" from conducting relations "with any foreign government … in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States."
In "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America," McCarthy says Obama undermined U.S. relations with a strong anti-terrorism ally in an African region where al-Qaida operates. In 2006, he details in the book how Obama campaigned for a pro-communist candidate running against Nairobi’s pro-American government – "in outrageous contravention of U.S. policy and, probably, federal law."
Washington Post To Release Intelligence
Top Secret intelligence is apparently about to be revealed.
According to the State Department statement, the Post will have a website revealing all. "The website provides a graphic representation pinpointing the location of firms conducting Top Secret work, describing the type of work they perform, and identifying many facilities where such work is done."
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail and said it went out to all State Department employees in the Washington, DC area, 14,574 people.
The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder published a related memo by Art House, the communications director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which appears to be just as worried as the State Department about the Post's reporting. According to an excerpt:
Themes
While we can't predict specific content, we anticipate the following themes:
The intelligence enterprise has undergone exponential growth and has become unmanageable with overlapping authorities and a heavily outsourced contractor workforce.
The IC and the DoD have wasted significant time and resources, especially in the areas of counterterrorism and counterintelligence.
The intelligence enterprise has taken its eyes off its post-9/11 mission and is spending its energy on competitive and redundant programs.
Format
The Washington Post may run a series of three articles, the first being an overview, the second focused on the large number of contractors supporting the intelligence enterprise, and the third looking at a specific community (the Fort Meade/BWI Airport area) that has expanded in part due to Intelligence Community growth.
The Washington Post is expected to work with Public Broadcasting Service's Frontline program to add a television component to this work, and will also present an interactive web site demonstrating growth of the intelligence enterprise and inviting comment and dialogue. The Post advises that "links" between individual contractors and specific agencies have been deleted, although the Post will still cite contractors and their locations.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Joey Vento supports Arizona
On July 14, 2010, Joey Vento hosted a fundraiser to help Arizona fight against the federal lawsuit over illegal immigration policy. The event drew supporters and protesters. Video by Michele Tranquilli/Daily News
People were wearing Arizona T-shirts, visit Arizona, and other pro-Arizona messages. The anti-Arizona crowd had the presence of at least one burqa. Numerous songs, signs, and slogans were in Spanish. Oddly enough, the local news media focused on Hispanics in their version of the event but it was a mostly Caucasian crowd against Arizona; there were hardly any Hispanics which is odd because quite a few businesses in South Philly are Spanish shops. There are quite a few Hispanics in the largely Italian South Philly area but they didn't demonstrate. There was some yelling back and forth and the counter-group tried to drown out the radio broadcast. The police kept people across the street and even though there were narrow South Philly streets people generally stayed away from one another and behind the police barricades separating the two separate crowds.
Fox 29 News version
Joey Vento interview
The Big Talker 1210 and Joey Vento's Geno's Steaks support Arizona in a "buycott broadcast."
Dom’s Stand up for Arizona Broadcast Video
Standing with Arizona – Full Show Podcasts
All funds raised support Arizonans through the Border Security and Immigration Legal Defense Fund.
Special (Broadcast) Guests:
* Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
* Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce, author of Arizona Immigration Bill
* PA State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, sponsor of PA Immigration Bill
* Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio
* Hazelton, PA Mayor Lou Barletta
Music provided by Rivoli Review.
FDR Prolonged the Great Depression
In the August 2004 issue of the Journal of Political Economy, working paper version documented, two economists refuted a standard version of FDR's role in prolonging the Great Depression. Actually, the Great Depression did not end until after WWII. Why it lasted so long went unanswered until Harold L. Cole, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Lee E. Ohanian, professor of economics at UCLA, published their research project “How Government Prolonged the Depression” in the Journal of Political Economy (August 2004).
Obama's Nanny State Free Health Rationing Plan Goes Into Effect
The regulations requiring new, private health plans to cover preventive services without charge -- no co-payments, deductibles, or coinsurance went into effect: the free preventive services will include counseling to quit smoking and "counseling to address obesity and help children maintain a healthy weight."
With the arrival of the nanny state of course it is not free; taxpayers will be paying for other kids whose parents do not effectively parent them.
China Censors Security Talk
A Black Hat talk on China's 'cyber army' pulled after pressure.
"Using facts, we will reconstruct the face of Cyber Army, including who they are, where they are, who they target, what they want, what they do, their funding, objectives, organization, processes, active hours, tools, and techniques," the presenters wrote in a description of their talk, posted to the Black Hat Web site.
The presenters, Wayne Huang, chief technology officer with Taiwanese security vendor Armorize, and Jack Yu, are researchers with the company. Huang was allowed to go forward with an earlier version of the talk at a 2007 conference in Taipei. Three years ago, the data was presented to a mostly Taiwanese audience at a small, obscure conference. Presenting at Black Hat, the world's preeminent security research conference, would have put it before a much larger audience.
Much has happened in the past three years and the talk would no doubt have proved enlightening.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Geno's Steaks Supports Arizona
Support in PA for Arizona: PA files anti-amnesty measure along with 9 other states.
On July 14, 2010, Joey Vento hosted a fundraiser to help Arizona fight against the federal lawsuit over illegal immigration policy. The event drew supporters and protesters. Video by Michele Tranquilli/Daily News
The Big Talker 1210 and Joey Vento's Geno's Steaks support Arizona in a "buycott broadcast."
All funds raised support Arizonans through the Border Security and Immigration Legal Defense Fund.
Special (Broadcast) Guests:
* Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
* Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce, author of Arizona Immigration Bill
* PA State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, sponsor of PA Immigration Bill
* Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio
* Hazelton, PA Mayor Lou Barletta
Music provided by Rivoli Review.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
This is a Racism Test.
This is a Racism Test.
Do you like him any better now?
No?
Then you're not a racist.
NASA Head Choked Up When Describing What the Middle East Looked Like From Space
NASA Chief Charles Bolden provided a teary performance when he first addressed the agency as he got all teary when describing the Middle East from space. I guess that is what qualifies him to head up the American space program.
Senator: Resolve eligibility in court
A Republican senator from Louisiana, David Vitter, is suggesting the dispute over Obama's eligibility to be president be resolved in court.
"I support conservative legal organizations and others who would bring that to court," the Associated Press reported a video of the event revealed him saying.
Vitter becomes just the latest high-profile leader, and the first U.S. senator, to take such a strong stand on the issue.
Vitter was responding to a constituent who on Sunday at a town hall meeting in Metairie, La., asked about Obama's "refusal to produce" a "birth certificate."
The AP reported the crowd applauded the question, and Vitter said he doesn't have personal "standing" for litigation.
But he said he supports those groups that are bringing the question to court.
"I think that is the valid and most possibly effective grounds to do it," he said.
He said "first and foremost" Americans need to "fight the Obama agenda at the ballot box starting this fall."
Vitter said, according to the AP report, that the matters of the nation are too important to be diverted by distractions.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Media Mogul States He Wrote Obama Speech
So much for the independent press of the Fourth Estate.
“Well I voted for Obama, I helped write one of his speeches,” Zuckerman told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto.
Asked which speech he helped write, Zuckerman responded, “I’d rather not go into that.”
Zuckerman was identified by John Mearsheimer, political science professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as a a member of the media wing of the “Israeli lobby” in the United States. Zuckerman responded to the charge by stating he was “proud” to be part of the Israeli lobby.
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