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“So look what’s going on,” Levin said, “Turkey is run by an Islamo-nazi.” Turkey, a NATO country with important geographic significance, according to Levin, should not be a part of NATO any longer because of its lack of support for fellow NATO countries and its alleged involvement in helping the “Islamo-nazi cockroaches” ISIL with their oil sales.
This should be shouted from the highest rooftops. Evict the bastids from NATO at once !
The September 19th Minsk ceasefire is being implemented by both sides slowly, but as Ukrainian units withdraw, sometimes under fire, graves are being found attested to military units' presence.
Rantburg.com correspondent Chris Covert reports on what was found and the ongoing war in southeastern Ukraina on the Sunday Morning Coffee Pot.
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] It seems that the Democrats have been developing a third model of representation of late: Call it the "sneak it past the rubes" theory. Under this approach, you pre-sent yourself to your constituents as an independent voice, not in hock to the national Democratic party, so as to get elected. Then the national party allows you generally to vote with your constituents, on the understanding that when the chips are down you will vote with the liberal leadership. Then you hope that the "rubes" back home can be sufficiently distracted by the "war on women" or some other phony issue that they'll return you to office. And if they choose not to, there will be a consolation prize: a cushy, well-connected job as a lobbyist (Blanche Lincoln) or law firm adviser (Byron Dorgan) or association CEO (Ben Nelson) or strategic adviser in PR (Kent Conrad) in Washington, where you are more at home anyway, or even a job out of town as an ambassador (Max Baucus).
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I'm hoping that a lot of voters sense the danger from a post- or non-Constitutional government and exact appropriate revenge at the polls.
If the people interviewed by Jesse Watters on Fox are an indication of voters and the information they have, we have a problem. About 7-8 out 10 are stoned or complete dunces. These people cannot be representative of the American voter.
[DAWN] 'WHO will watch the watchmen?' -- from the Latin 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?' -- an expression usually alluded to in the context of political corruption, manifested itself literally in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail this week when a prison guard shot and injured an inmate convicted of committing blasphemy. The victim, an elderly British-Pak with a history of severe mental illness, was sentenced to death on the charge of blasphemy in January this year. The assailant evidently resorted to an elaborate ruse to get close to his target, who had been kept in a separate high-security barracks set aside on the jail premises for those accused or convicted of blasphemy.
It is a particularly profound betrayal when those deputed to guard a life attempt to take it. And when that act is driven by notions of serving a 'higher cause', then legal safeguards, right to due process, etc are rendered meaningless, which is a dangerous situation for any society to find itself in. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... we have been hurtling along this self-destructive path for some time. The murder of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer at the hands of his own guard who turned on him for advocating changes in the blasphemy law, not to mention the rapturous adulation with which the killer was greeted by many members of the legal fraternity, was a watershed moment. It signified the ultimate triumph of fevered passion over reason, vigilante justice over rule of law. Things have come to such a pass that blasphemy accused are hard-pressed to find lawyers willing, and brave enough, to defend them, especially after the murder in May of Rashid Rehman, who was threatened by fellow lawyers for defending such an individual. Even judges, especially in the lower courts, are reluctant to be seen as giving any relief to blasphemy accused. In fact, revising the blasphemy law, although necessary, would perhaps not be enough in this noxious environment: only a sustained counter-narrative on multiple levels can change a mindset that sees virtue in committing violence in the name of religion.
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[The Daily Signal] The unexpected resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder follows a series of court rulings against his Department of Justice over its failure to produce documents related to the government's "Fast and Furious" firearms operation.
Holder also has come under increasing congressional criticism for a tepid investigation of evidence that IRS officials deliberately targeted tea party and other conservative groups for greater scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
Calling the government's arguments for "even more time ... unconvincing," a federal judge this week refused to grant Holder's Justice Department the additional time it requested to turn over a list of Operation Fast and Furious documents withheld under executive privilege exerted by President Obama.
The list is referred to as a "Vaughn index" and requires the Justice Department to justify document-by-document the reasons it hasn't released the materials. This exercise alone often prompts the release of documents.
The Justice Department sought to delay the Vaughn index until one day before the Nov. 4 midterm elections. But the court ordered the index produced by Oct. 22 instead. The order comes in a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.
"[S]eventy-five days--plus another twenty-one, based in part on Judiciary Watch's consent--is enough time for the government to prepare the index that this court has ordered, given that this matter has been pending for over two years," wrote U.S. District Court Judge John Bates. "The court will therefore extend the Department's Vaughn index submission deadline to Oct. 22, 2014--and no further."
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About this time, Obama is looking for the guy Bill Clinton used, Sandy Berger to get rid of documents--the Democratic operative who stuffed classified info/documents down his underwear during a crisis and walked away with them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
