Justice/Legal

Niccolo Machiavelli

Congress Passes Bill Opening U.S. Skies To Drones

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — After five years of legislative struggling, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress finally has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation’s aviation system into a new high-tech era in which satellites are central to air traffic control and piloted planes share the [...]
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Peter Schweizer

Europe’s New Iron Curtain: Rising Dictatorships On the Continent

The Cold War was about freedom vs. tyranny:  the belief that individuals had certain inalienable rights vs. the belief that the state was omnipotent.  We won,  right?! You wouldn’t know it by looking at trends in Europe,  where tyranny is on the rise.  It’s not in the direct form of Soviet gulags, military parades or police [...]
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Sun Tzu

New Craze in Germany: Animal Brothels

From The Local: Animal sex abuse is on the rise in Germany, with bestiality brothels being set up across the country, according to a state animal protection officer demanding stronger laws to protect mankind’s furry and feathered friends. Madeleine Martin, the animal protection official for Hessian state government, said the law needed to [...]
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Sun Tzu

Army Orders Court-Martial for Alleged Wikileaks Source Bradley Manning

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Military District of Washington commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred all charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning to a general court-martial, [...]
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Clare M. Lopez

Muslim Brotherhood Trying to Police the NYPD

After forcing the FBI and CIA to purge their counterterrorism training programs of all references to “Islam” in “Islamic terrorism,” the Muslim Brotherhood in America has turned its sights on the New York Police Department (NYPD). Image credit: Reuters Writers from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of [...]
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Sun Tzu

Canadian Court Sentences Muslim Family to Life for ‘Completely Twisted’ Honor Killing

In Kingston, Ontario, a judge has found an Afghan family guilty of drowning the father’s three teenage daughters and one of his wives for behavior that defied his strict rules — not for crime, not for drugs, not for violence — but primarily because they dated men without his permission. From the Daily Mail: An Afghan father, [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

Unreasonable Risk and Ill-Conceived Combat Missions Define Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy

As a consequence of that misplaced ethical concern for an inappropriately identified non-combatant population, they have unnecessarily endangered our forces and reduced their combat effectiveness by forcing them to consider the lives of these 'non-combatants' as superior to their own. This is the very definition of 'unreasonable risk'.
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Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

EXCLUSIVE–Iranian Freedom Fighter: ‘Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Toward the Islamic Republic is Wrong’

Americans aren’t the only ones shocked by U.S. Congressman Ron Paul’s assertion that international sanctions against Iran qualify as an “act of war.” The Texas Congressman has made the assertion several times during the past few years, and reiterated it last night during the Republican debates in Florida when he argued that the U.S. had committed an [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Former CIA Agent Accused of Giving Classified Info to Journalists

From the National Journal: The Justice Department indicted a high-profile former CIA agent, John Kiriakou, on charges that he knowingly provided classified information to journalists and tried to mislead the CIA while trying to get permission to publish a book about his time with the intelligence agency. The indictment comes after a years-long FBI investigation into Kiriakou, [...]
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Sun Tzu

Netanyahu Orders Investigation of Sheikh’s Alleged Incitement to Violence

From the Jerusalem Post: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday called on Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to open an investigation into Jerusalem Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein for incitement after he was recorded quoting a passage by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Hadith that calls for the killing of Jews. “These are grave words that [...]
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