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Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law
International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009
Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake
Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009
Straight Talk About Israel
Mr Rosner does really invoke TRUTH regarding Israeli US relations. Instead, he calls for downplaying them. Why? Might it be that Rosner does not want the truth about Israeli US relations to be revealed? After 1948, Israel was an modern independent nation with its own foreign policy agenda which included expansion and inclusion of the ancient ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on October 10, 2008
The Big Bailout...Ha!
There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
Hitch On Helms like White on Rice
Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008
Government abuse of power
South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008
If McCain Had It To Do Over Again...Is He Proud of Those Mi
Wesley Clark is a soldier who came to disavow what I think were imperialist and neo-colonialist impulses behind and underneath the Vietnam War. John McCain was bombing North Vietnam in what amounted to a Civil War. He hasn't disavowed the philosophical underpinnings of that war and in fact shows evidence of believing in that effort and wanting ...
Posted to War Stories by mstrschld on July 2, 2008
Obama's Reparations
Lately, I have been having conversations about a topic of profound significance to me. Essentially, I believe that if (probably when) Obama becomes president, as the masterful communicator that he is, he will be able to bring the issue of reparations for slavery into the national consciousness. For too long the issue of reparations has been ...
Posted to Ballot Box by chriswallace112 on June 25, 2008

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