Who said this was an amorphous enemy; that detainees would be held forever; and that we wouldn’t know when we had won? Originally published at The Minority Report’s Live Wire by gamecock From Camp Cropper, Iraq The U.S. military is rushing to build criminal cases against some 5,000 detainees it deems dangerous – including suspected members of al-Qaeda in Iraq – because the proposed security | Read More »
Originally published by our Legal Editor, Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com After the most liberal state in the nation rejected same-sex marriage at the ballot box for the second time this decade, protests rallies were held across the nation, including here in Charlotte. Some gay rights activists point to the defeat of same-sex marriage with the passage of | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report One of the factors restraining investors since 2006 and even before the Fannie Mae housing/credit crunch bubble burst, has been their knowledge that income from any investments would be subject to higher tax rates after 2010. Hear the breathless, panting Drive-By media: Obama is said to be reconsidering one key campaign pledge | Read More »
That especially includes those of the illegal enemy combatant variety held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and in theater in Afghanistan and Iraq. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com and at The Minority Report The holding of captured enemy forces so they cannot return to the battlefield to kill one’s own soldiers is elemental. But, the millennia-old | Read More »
We start on two fronts today. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report The first is the Eastern Front, or, more precisely, the Middle Eastern Front, where conclusive evidence of total victory by the Armed Forces of the United States emerged this week with the approval of a security agreement endorsed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President | Read More »
And Republicans they should do it quickly before the Democrats get in the frontseat. Originally published by Mike DeVine as legal editor for The Minority Report on its Live Wire: This is a brilliant idea, even if The One did think of it. It is what used to be called political victory for a more savvy GOP. Republican office holders, radio talk show hosts and | Read More »
Paint it Blue! North Carolina may Now and only now, be “declared” for the President-Elect. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com Incompetence or subterfuge by the Associated Press in their “reporting” on the counting of the presidential election votes in North Carolina? It’s obvious to this former trial lawyer that a competent cross-examination would find then | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com A conservative republican senator, James Inhofe of Oklahoma (right), wants to prevent a Republican President’s Secretary of the Treasury from spending $350 billion absent approval of a Democratic Party congressional majorities. Thomas Freidman, a liberal Obama-supporting columnist with the New York Times opposes Democrats in congress that want to come | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com and as legal editor for The Minority Report Exit polls from Election Day 2008 showed that a majority of voters trusted democrats more than republicans to cut taxes, despite nearly all of world history. There is no excuse for this or course, especially since Proposition 13 in California more than | Read More »
Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report [Part one of our Election 2008 post-mortem, rejected the notion of a “secular American majority”. I agree with Dave Sage that culture drives politics; that America has been growing more secular; and that America desperately needs a new Great Awakening outside of politics. However, Republicans are not yet Daniel in a pagan Lions Den. | Read More »
By Mike “gamecock” DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com The Left now controls all levers of national power in Washington and has no more need for triangulators that delayed the vesting of their birthright. The worshippers wanting to bring back ’68 have hated Bill Clinton since the 1995 State of the Union that declared the | Read More »
The reason: No “secular American majority” exists. The vast majority of Americans still believe in God. By Mike “gamecock” DeVine, Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com In his brilliant A Republican Party for a Secular America, David Sage correctly cites the 2008 rejection of the GOP “in its current form” by the American people at the ballot box, but then attributes that rejection | Read More »
Originally published by our, Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com Barack Obama’s election to lead America’s largest institution, its government, by a 75% Caucasian electorate, should eliminate further civil rights claims not based on actual racist acts by identifiable flesh and blood racists. When a self-identified African-American receives more votes for president (both actual and as a percentage of | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine, in Examiner.com Last August, Osama bin Laden’s former driver was sentenced to just five and a half years in prison for providing material support for Al Qaeda in the first trial of a terror suspect by a Special Military Commission (SMC) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Salim Hamdan, who could have received 30 years to life, appeared healthy in his | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com What is the big hurry in “declaring” the winner of North Carolina’s electoral votes in the presidential election? Especially since the outcome will not slow down the transition of President-Elect Barack Obama? The day after the election, AP reported: “In the unofficial returns, Obama led Republican John McCain by 13,746 | Read More »
[Update: On Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol stated that sources inside the McCain campaign advised him that John McCain called his aides on Thursday and told them to cease attacks against Palin. Kristol and two named sources in the room with Palin affirmed that the attacks against her, by anonymous sources, were malicious lies.] Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com The American people have chosen a new Chief Magistrate. Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama. All Americans of faith should pray for him and his family despite any political differences. He defeated a true American hero and worthy opponent in John McCain. My candidate lost, but We the People have | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report Admit it now, what good were all the pre-election polls, poll obsessing and/or personal predictions for the past 23 months? None, unless your goal was to suppress GOP turnout, elect Farrakhan’s Messiah or keep alive a nerdy desire to give one’s life five seconds of meaning by being “right” in a guess | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The leader of the civil rights movement in this country had | Read More »
Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com “Small businesses should be making business decisions, not tax decisions.” So declared John McCain’s friendliest vanquished rival for the Republican presidential nomination during a campaign rally in Charlotte last week that skewered Barack Obama for change small businesses can’t believe in. Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee minced no words | Read More »
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