Those belonging to the: 400,000+ political opponents murdered by Saddam Hussein; 1.5 million+ killed in the three wars of aggression started by Saddam Hussein; Purple-fingered Iraqi voters; Iraqi police and security forces fighting side by side with the armed forces of the United States against Baathist, Iranian and al Qaeda enemies of freedom in Iraq; Members of the Iraqi Parliament that recently voted to establish | Read More »
Originally published by our Legal Editor, Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com This week marks the 217th anniversary of the ratification of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, collectively known as the “Bill of Rights.” In fact, Monday was designated “Bill of Rights Day.” I dare say that most Americans are much more familiar with their rights | Read More »
Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report Like day follows night, Drive-By Media praise of the return of “smart” people to power in Washington follows the election of a Democrat to the presidency. Given that this has occurred less often than solar and lunar eclipses since man landed on the Moon, you may be forgiven the recollection. The usual “evidence” given | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report When, in my ignorance, I thought the “natural born citizen” requirement for the presidency depended one being delivered from the womb within the territorial confines of one of the Fifty States or the District of Columbia, DeVine Law considered state and court refusals to require the production of the President-Elects original long | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report We saw on September 11, 2001 what a grave threat is Islamist terror to America. Courageous action by President George W. Bush and the FBI, CIA armed forces of the United States have protected us from that threat flawlessly since then. Many of us believe that illegal immigration could be a long | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report Larry Kudlow reports: Senate sources tell me that any TARP-money allocation might include the very same conditions proposed by Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker in legislation that broke down in a marathon session in the Senate list night. So folks shouldn’t count their TARP eggs before they’re hatched. And nothing is expected to | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report The $15B Bush-Democrat Car Csar bridge bailout loan bill failed last night in the U.S. Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he will not allow a vote on the Corker Amendment bill that would condition a bridge loan to the Big Three on their autoworkers agreeing to compensation equal to that | Read More »
From the diaries. Multiple sources reporting that the bailout officially fell 8 votes short of cloture. On the Fox News Channel today, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) essentially endorsed the Corker Amendment while conceding that the current bailout bill did not have the 60 votes required for cloture to end the Republican filibuster of the $15B compromise bill. He suggested that after cloture fails, he would | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report under the title: Minority, report for conservative counter-punching crisis duty The world changed on September 11, 2001. Republicans mostly got it and made GOP electoral history by gaining House and Senate seats in the next two elections. President Bush was re-elected. Seems so long ago, doesn’t it? This is especially so, since | Read More »
President-Elect Barack Obama has tossed Republicans another softball with his New Deal scale infrastructure proposal. Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report We mostly whiffed at the “pre-packaged” bankruptcy trial balloon pitch for Detroit’s Big Three and missed an opportunity to divide the Democrats. We must not take strike two. This is a “public” works proposal. Government is responsible | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com In the wake of the discovery that students had painted racist messages on the campus “free speech” graffiti tunnel walls, UNC President Erskine Boyles is asking a commission to study whether the university has an adequate code of conduct. Apparently, some people were bothered by seeing the N-word emblazoned near | Read More »
In the aftermath India’s “911”, the world’s largest democracy could learn a few things from the world’s oldest. Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report A combination of roundups of visa overstays from Muslim countries in the weeks immediately following 911; elimination of nation-state sponsored safe havens; foreign and domestic surveillance; and war against Taliban, Wahhabist, Baathist, Iranian Shia, | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report Many of the terminally ill that are diagnosed in time; physically fit to travel; and able to liquidate large amounts of their assets, cash in their pensions and throw one last blow out party before the Grim Reaper arrives. Some even take world tours and resort to risk-taking criminal behavior, given that | Read More »
Just when you think the civil right to keep the fruits of your labor is safe from elected Democrats, here come the local ink by the barrel buying-liberals playing the class warfare card. Originally published by our Legal Editor, Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com The Examiner reported Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones’ statement last week that he doubted | Read More »
Fifty-eight and counting for the Democratic Party in the United States Senate, and should incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss lose to Jim Martin on this Tuesday’s run-off election, only one Republican vote would be required to invoke cloture to end filibusters. A President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress would have a blank check to enact most all of their legislative dreams of the past | Read More »
Property rights ought to trump second-hand smoke, but it may be politicians love for tax revenues that snuff out power plays by non-smokers to impose smoking bans in restaurants. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com “It’s not about personal freedoms. It’s not about businesses’ property rights. This is a health issue bill.” That was House Majority | Read More »
[This blog was inspired by an excellent comment in Walter Todd Huston's excellent column.] Originally published with complete transcript at The Minority Report. The Drive-By Media will not suddenly become critics of President-Elect Barack Obama, like they did with President Jimmy Carter (some of the anti-Southern bigotry was vile), but, they will slowly turn on him due to how he reacts to any semi-tough question | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report Barack Obama was the one, who was waiting for? Was it us, or Al Qaeda in India; Russian missiles near Poland and warships in Venezuela, respectively; and Iran near the bomb? Suddenly, post-Olympics, post-Election Day and especially post-intelligence briefing, President George W. Bush’s post-911 record doesn’t look so bad. Why else would | Read More »
Originally published by Mike gamecock DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report and Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com The Foghorn from the Associated Press uncorrected by The Charlotte Observer: MUMBAI, India Security forces assaulted a Jewish center in Mumbai where Muslim militants were believed holed up with possible hostages today, with black-clad commandos dropping from a Indian helicopter as sharpshooters opened fire | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Erick. Michael Barone reports: Democrats hope for a disproportionately large turnout of young and black voters, but Barack Obama, busy building an administration with an eye to bipartisan acceptability, seems so far unwilling to deploy the one political asset—personal campaigning by the president-elect—that seems most likely to spark such turnout. Democrats hope, but Obama’s non-change Clinton cabinet doesn’t extend to | Read More »
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