Does this not open up a window for military personal being blackmailed? And should not the issue of been level corroboration with the police and connection to the allege crime not her sexual relationship for discharge?
AJC….”I played by ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” Newsome told The Associated Press by telephone.
“I just don’t agree with what [...]

It is no secrete the Chinese government been abusing the internet to crack down on human rights activist as well using heavy handed censorship. Should the Obama administration take a stronger action against China beyond just condemning them and if so what?
AJC-China’s top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its [...]

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 [...]

The Independent Institute
BY Senior Vice President Mary L.G. Theroux
The current $350 million ad campaign for the 2010 Census, including the much-maligned $2.5 million Super Bowl spots, urges individuals to “Tell your story.” The Census Bureau is particularly eager for minorities and illegal immigrants to do so, as they are traditionally believed to be the [...]

Dear President Obama:
I am 50 years old. I was diagnosed with carcinoma in-situ 16 years ago and following my divorce 12 years ago I became self-employed. After my Cobra ran out I was able to find costly, but affordable health insurance. As a responsible individual, I have struggled to maintain my individual coverage and [...]

Who is right?
From Sen. kyl
….Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting “because people are being paid even though they’re not working.”
Unemployment insurance “doesn’t create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work,” Kyl [...]

Words politicians don’t want said…
By Jack E. Lohman
When you already have 60 votes in the senate, demanding bipartisanship is a lame excuse for doing what your corporate funders wanted in the first place. It’s just more of the game the Dems have been playing.
Neither party wants real fixes, because then the corporate money will cease [...]

PC police go wild!
HP-A seventh grader who touched a prescription drug pill while at school has been suspended for a week because of her school’s interpretation of their zero-tolerance drug policy.
According to officials at River Valley Middle School in Jeffersonville, Indiana, student Rachel Greer violated their drug policy simply by holding Adderall, an ADHD [...]

State rights verse the Second Amendment, what do you think? The irony is racist claim it was unconstitutional for Lincoln to free the slaves.
AJC-Gun control advocates think, if not pray, they can win by losing when the Supreme Court decides whether the constitutional right to possess guns serves as a check on state and [...]

From The Independent Institute
Research Fellow Anthony Gregory comments on waging just war in Avatar:
James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar is a thrill to see, and various commentators have judged the film for whatever ideological message they have found in it, but what struck me most is that the Na’vi people, in defending their land on Pandora from [...]

Why would anyone vote against this bill?
WP-The House voted Wednesday to strip health insurance companies of their exemption from federal antitrust laws, a Democratic measure that could resonate with public concerns about insurers but that has an uncertain future in the Senate.
The provision passed on a 406 to 19 vote, with most Republicans [...]

From The Independent Institute
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs takes on the economic doomsayers:
We have good reasons to worry about the economy, with Washington running trillion-dollar-plus deficits and the baby-boomer entitlement bust looming ahead. But we shouldn’t let our understandable worries degenerate into doomsaying.
Some of my friends seem inclined toward such gloom and doom. It’s almost [...]

HP-Seth MacFarlane was a guest Friday on the eighth season premiere of “Real Time With Bill Maher.” MacFarlane, along with Norah O’Donnell and Eliot Spitzer, discussed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, CPAC, Tea Parties and, of course, the “Family Guy”/Palin controversy.
On Sunday, Fox ran a “Family Guy” episode that included a character with Down Syndrome [...]