18 June, 2013 (10:44) | Immigration, Law, Politics | By: ricjames
That’s a bad-sounding headline, right there, and people interested in election integrity can be forgiven for shaking their heads in disgust at a Supreme Court that, it appears, doesn’t care if thousands of people who are not eligible to vote in US elections just waltz in and cast ballots alongside US citizens. Considering the ramifications [...]
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9 June, 2013 (08:35) | Internet, Law, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames
We are all witnessing a number of interesting reactions to the latest scandals revealed regarding this administration, the NSA’s collection of all American Verizon customer’s phone call information and,now, the collection of e-mail and other documents from a host of Internet companies. One of the most telling is the attempt to excuse this intrusion by [...]
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8 June, 2013 (10:35) | Internet, Law, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames
It’s been 1 scandal after another for the Obama administration over the past 6-8 months and there remain several serious, unanswered questions about literally every one of them. The bombshell-du-jour centers around the collection by the National Security Agency (NSA) of phone call metadata of all of Verizon Wireless’ customers, suspected of any illegal activity [...]
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8 June, 2013 (07:24) | Crime & Punishment, Law, Politics | By: ricjames
So when letters that tested positive for ricin were sent to the President and to various members of Congress who have been outspoken in their advocacy of gun-control measures, the theories as to the identity of the sender ran from being a member of the Tea Party to a typically disgruntled member of the NRA. [...]
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25 May, 2013 (08:14) | 2nd Amendment, Law, Politics | By: ricjames
The last state in America holding on to a complete ban on the concealed carry of guns by law-abiding citizens might finally give up that dubious distinction. The IL House has passed a measure to enact a “shall issue” permitting process statewide: Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the [...]
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19 May, 2013 (13:03) | Crime & Punishment, Politics | By: ricjames
You know, you would expect someone who’s supposed to be advising the President to have a little better precision of language than this: This morning on “This Week,” White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service [...]
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16 May, 2013 (17:38) | Law, Politics | By: ricjames
The IRS reportedly also held up conservative pro-life groups in their little unbalanced application of US tax laws over the past three years and what they were demanding in order to allow people the same treatment as the Administration’s friends was no less than their freedom of speech: IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt [...]
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16 May, 2013 (14:33) | Law, Politics | By: ricjames
In case you’ve missed it, the IRS has admitted that its agents have deliberately targeted for increased scrutiny, outright harassment, and unjustified delay conservative groups with real or imagined connections to the Tea Party and the like. In short, they have explicitly come out as being precisely the dangerous, civil-rights-trampling, overreaching governmental power abuser that [...]
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21 April, 2013 (14:17) | Crime & Punishment, GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames
With the capture of the second bomber we are now in a position to be far more deliberate and thorough in moving the investigation forward. We know a lot more now than we did just 3 days ago but there’s more we need. There’s also some stuff we don’t need. This may sound premature but [...]
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17 April, 2013 (23:00) | Crime & Punishment, GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames
A letter that was sent to Senator Wicker (R-MS) tested positive for ricin, an extremely powerful poison. The alert was raised when the letter went through the off-site mail handling facility that checks each and every letter and package destined for Congress. A similar letter mailed to President Obama has been reported, as well. The [...]
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