... a conservative Republican. It was a surprise, but Tom was insistent he was going to retain his principles and values if he won. He was excited about the prospect of making real change if Obama became President. I shed ... mere tool of a hard-right AIPAC agenda that has no business dictating American policy. He has become part of an American dog wagged by an Israeli and AIPAC tail. Voters are again ...

... a modern U.S. style mall along with some commentary about how American culture seems to be spreading out all over the world, even to places where you'd ... outer edges of the city. McDonald's has become big in Paris. American movies, American TV shows, ... its intended purpose. Guns are such an intimate part of American culture, especially in the South, that one state (so far) is giving tax ...

... without the admission of evidence provided under torture, but this decision is a small step towards honoring the values of America’s Founders. If they wanted exceptions to evidence and open trials, they would ... put them into the Constitution. The presence of suspected al-Qaeda suspects on American soil will not make us less safe. The terrorists are already resolved to do their worst. If New ...

It’s too bad everything doesn’t work as smoothly as this does: Pundita writes on her blog: In July 2008 Mark Mazzetti, one of the great American journalists to report on U.S. defense issues in the post-9/11 era, wrote for The New York Times about the complexities that American intelligence professionals faced when dealing with Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services

... determined to be different. Congressman Perriello, I am afraid, has become like so many of his colleagues, a mere tool of a hard-right AIPAC agenda that has no business dictating American policy. He has become part of an American dog wagged by an Israeli and AIPAC tail. Voters are again disengaging because they continue to see too much business as usual. Tom is just the latest manifestation of a ...

... we volunteer to lay our lives down for? In short, if we violate the very ideals that hold together our American way of life in the pursuit of security, what exactly are we secure from? What does that tell us about the success of the "evildoers& ... stable enough to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed, he either no respect for the rule of law, or has no faith in American values or the American way of life.

Fox News freaks out about our upholding our American values and actually trying 9/11 plotters in court in NYC, sends Rudy Giuliani to argue against... himself in 2006, when he said that we should uphold our American values, and actually try them in court. Bonus discussion article here.

A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault On American Values (Hoover Institution Press) By Robert H. Bork Publisher: Hoover Institution Press 2005-09-15 | 196 Pages | ... : 0817946020 | PDF | 1.3 MB The growing legal threat to our sovereignty and values... During the past forty years, activists have repeatedly used the court system to achieve social ...

... : YOU ARE DUMB. Shining city on the hill? Whining shitty on the hill, more like. For American exceptionalism to have even the tiniest shred of value, America actually needs to be exceptional. That means not actually ... . We vote in America, selecting only the best and the brightest to represent us and our uniquely American values, carefully crafting laws just like on Schoolhouse Rock. Well, the ...

In an attempt to get buddy-buddy with the powers of the world that we are trying to impress - and in a blatant, overt action to minimalize our Constitution and legal system, the White House has decided to give comfort to the enemy by affording them rights they don't have - and never could or should have - and bringing them to New York to stand trial in a civilian court. They are going to be ...

Where Has The STIMULUS MONEY GONE? by: Lee S Gliddon Jr One has to wonder just how much money Obama is promising Senators for their Campaign Coffers to gain their Healthcare votes! ‘Where will he get it?,’ you may ask and my answer will be, ‘From the STIMULS MONEY he is spending as if it were his own! Anyone that cannot see the actions of Obama as being harmful to the Unites ...

Whether the issue is pollution, immigration, health care or growth in our communities, opponents of change often challenge reforms that might cost them money or impact their perceived property rights.   Those who lead comfortable lives are among the most vociferous detractors of programs they see as benefiting others – but not themselves.   There can be legitimate disagreements about the

Obama's Extra-Judicial Killers Subvert American Values | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "'The embrace of the Predator program has occurred with remarkably little public discussion.' That's why I'm writing this series. Mayer continued: '(yet) it represents a radically new and geographically unbounded use of ...

A guerilla attack on American soil, American church leaders so out of touch that they think Christianity is primarily about making one feel good about a progressively psycho ... only hold portions of the right and left coasts and Chicago politics, and the great American fly-over is becoming increasingly agitated with what it sees as not just liberal, leftist, or socialist, but communist underpinnings ...

A lot of opinion about Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in federal court seems to turn on what might be called gut level sentiment. The tendency is not to discuss the issue in a measured way but to regard Holder’s decision as idiotic on its face. My own gut level