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Why I'm an American in Exile...
On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
Justice Thomas
Dahlia, I find these times to be the most exciting SCOTUS period in all of American history. Someone took a little finger from the dike that separates us from their world and the revelations that have arisen are more than we should bear. I prefer justice (at least the branch) reside in a pristine world where our greatest minds reconcile and ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Bob Johnson on October 6, 2007
Academics and realists
I wouldn't call the Roberts-Alito-Scalia-Thomas axis of the Supreme Court ''mean,'' although that's a fair description of the result when they apply their theories to the Constitution. The term I'd probably use is ''academic.'' I know, that word usually is reserved for pointy-head liberal intellectuals, but it's really an apt description of how ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by randy-khan on June 27, 2007