It look like the Cheney family hates the rule of law!
HB-The backlash is growing against Liz Cheney after she demonized Department of Justice attorneys as terrorist sympathizers for their past legal work defending Gitmo detainees — and now it’s coming from within deeply conservative legal circles.
On Friday, the conservative blog Power Line put [...]

The Independent Institute
By Research Analyst Anthony Gregory
Former Democratic VP candidate Joe Lieberman and former GOP presidential candidate John McCain have introduced a new detention policy bill in response to the Christmas Day underwear bomber. From The Atlantic: “A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens [...]

This is a very good post I read on the PP! All should read!
PP-As you may know, there is a debate taking place over the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which allows gays to serve in the military provided they keep their sexual orientation to themselves. During his State of the Union [...]

Facts are the facts!
Politico-Republicans may have a hard time keeping up their talking point about how reading Miranda rights to the Christmas Day bomber represented a dangerous new direction under President Barack Obama.
It turns out that that back in December 2001, Richard Reid — the “shoe bomber” — was read or reminded of [...]

Should Roeder get the death penalty, if not when should we use the death penalty? ?

What is the answer?
DB-When a Welfare-collecting mother of nine was allegedly sterilized against her will, she was shocked by the outpouring of public support—for the doctors who did it.
When Tessa Savicki checked into Baystate Medical Center on December 18, 2006, for a Caesarean section, she didn’t know it was the last baby she [...]

Will this not promote my killing of doctors?
MSN-On a balmy Sunday morning, Scott Roeder got up from a pew at Reformation Lutheran Church at the start of services and walked to the foyer, where two ushers were chatting around a table. Wordlessly, he pressed the barrel of a .22-caliber handgun to the forehead of [...]

What do you think?
USA-Police in a small Ohio town are looking for two young girls — believed to be 12 and 14 years old — who robbed the 1st National Bank and eluded a police helicopter and dogs, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Police say the pair entered the bank in Symmes Township around 3:20 p.m. on [...]

Agree or disagree?
AJC-I have written a lot about gun laws and received this e-mail from a longtime reader. We are on opposite sides on this issue, but our debate has always been polite and he continues to update me on gun news in Georgia.
am posting his note about House Bill 615 because [...]

HUH? The tatoo police?
AJC-A northwest Georgia couple arrested for giving six of their children homemade tattoos say they didn’t do anything wrong. The kids, they say, wanted the tattoos to be like Mom and Dad.
“I’m their mother,” Patty Jo Marsh said late Saturday. “Shouldn’t I be able to decide if they get one?”
Georgia [...]

The college cannot be the potty police!
FOX-Green Mountain College student has filed a lawsuit over the lack of single-sex bathrooms in the her co-ed residence hall.
Nineteen-year-old Jennifer Weiler filed a civil complaint last week against the Department of Public Safety, which enforces building and plumbing codes she claims were violated.
All seven of the school’s [...]

A MAJOR PROBLEM!
AJC-The state of Georgia has no idea where to find child molester Michael Jerome Madison.
It can’t locate Frederick Charles Zimmerman, either. Or Charles Eugene Mickler. Or nearly 250 other sex offenders from metro Atlanta.
Nearly one-tenth of the area’s registered sex offenders who are not in jail are listed as “absconded” [...]

Agree or disagree?
Fox-A Virginia man has been convicted of indecent exposure after prosecutors said he stood naked inside his house as a 7-year-old boy and his mother walked by.
The mother and child allegedly observed the defendant, 29-year-old Erick Williamson, first through a doorway and again through a window that had no drapes, MyFoxDC [...]

Is it not time to end this war and decimalize drugs?
MSN-Criminals find a variety of ways to funnel billions into Mexico each year
Every day, criminals shove proceeds from U.S. drug sales in their shoes, tape it to their torsos, stash it under dashboards — or just wire it electronically to Mexico. It all adds [...]

This is over the line!
CNN-A judge in Oklahoma extended on Friday a temporary restraining order on a law that would post information online about women who get abortions in the state.
In extending the restraining order, Oklahoma County District Judge Daniel Owens denied the state’s motion to dismiss the case, putting the measure on [...]