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The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming it is unconstitutional for the government to target and kill U.S. citizens overseas if they are suspected of terrorism, according to a report in the Washington Post. via A.M. Top News: Civil rights groups sue federal [...] “A war is a war. A war is not a crime, and you don’t bring your enemies to a courthouse.” — Andrew McCarthy What gives this statement weight – other than its inherent truth – is that Andrew McCarthy was one of the best and most successful prosecutors of terrorists in civilian court, including the case [...] Investigators of the Christmas Day attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner are increasingly focused on the role of a radical Yemeni American cleric previously linked to the Fort Hood shootings, suspecting that he may have been involved in guiding the Nigerian man charged in last week’;s failed plane attack, Yemeni and U.S. officials say. via [...] If this report is correct, the guy who wasn’t a terrorist just because he talked to him, may indeed be a terrorist after all. Sources tell ABC News that an air raid in Yemen this morning may have killed two top al Qaeda officials as well as an imam believed to have inspired the alleged Fort [...] A GWU task force set up to make recommendations for the Obama administration on Homeland Security. List of participants (Click to enlarge.) A seminar on Homeland Security attended by our latest domestic terrorist. Seaborne raiders in a high-speed skiff tried again on Wednesday to commandeer the Maersk Alabama, the American-flagged ship seized by pirates in April, the United States Navy said. But a security team on board the Maersk Alabama responded with small-arms fire, long-range acoustical devices painful to the human ear and evasive maneuvers to thwart the attack, [...] So much has been said and written about what happened on 9/11. The following day is forgotten, just another dulled interlude in the aftermath of an incoherent morning. But New Yorkers were introduced that day to irreducible presumptions about their wounded city that many believed would harden and become chiseled into the event’s enduring legacy. via New [...] With all the ruckus about health care “reform”, let’s take a brief moment to remember the issue of national security. You all recall national security, don’t you? It’s what the Bush White House managed to do so well in the years following 9/11 that most of us could take it for granted. Occasionally there would be [...] House Democrats announced a plan yesterday that would force the richest 2 million U.S. taxpayers to shoulder much of the cost of an expansion of the nation’s health-care system, by imposing a surtax of as much as 5.4 percent on income above $350,000 a year. WaPo Regular readers will know that I am fond of applying lessons learned the hard way here in New Jersey to national politics and economics. The chief purveyors of the Euro-Socialist fantasies here are our State Senate President Dick Codey, Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts and Governor Jon Corzine. Needless to say, all are Democrats. Codey and Roberts [...] |
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