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Something remarkable didn't happen last week: Nobody blew up Detroit. This is a stunning development. It is stunning because Detroit is the city where, on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to life behind bars. Abdulmutallab is
Now that the 112th Senate’s second session is taking its first recess, this is an ideal moment to analyze lower federal court judicial selection. The bench experiences 84 vacancies in the 858 appellate and district court judgeships, three of which are in
Tomorrow, the Senate is scheduled to vote to close debate on the nomination of Jesse Furman as a federal district court judge in New York. This is a worthy nomination. Furman, who is not yet 40 years old, has spent his professional life in public service
And with the trip, a fresh wave of speculation has gripped that country's media that his company, under investigation by British authorities for phone hacking and police bribery at two of its tabloid newspapers in the United Kingdom, might have to fight
In his interview with Scott Hennen, Newt Gingrich was asked what he thought about the “good Newt” versus “bad Newt” narrative. Gingrich responded this way: “I think it’s a foolish narrative. I mean, when you are drowning in being outspent 5 to 1 with neg
Mehdi Marizad / Fars via AP file A car that was bombed by two assailants on a motorcycle in Tehran on Jan. 11, killing Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahamdi Roshan, is removed by a mobile crane. The photo was distributed by the semi-official Iranian p
Remember this? Yes, last Friday night the DOJ dumped documents on Congress about Fast and Furious. Anyone with an ounce of common sense & critical thinking skills would come to the conclusion based on the emails between Monty Wilkinson, Attorney General
The report finds that gunwalking operations originated as early as 2006 as agents in the Phoenix Field Division of ATF devised a strategy to forgo arrests against low-level straw purchasers while they attempted to build bigger cases against higher-level
NCRI - In an international conference held in Paris on Friday, January 20, at the invitation of the CFID (French Committee for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran), distinguished American and European dignitaries warned of the compulsory transfer of Ashra
Are they [the Iranians] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that’s what concerns us. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed in a Senate hearing – following the re
Newt Gingrich has pledged that on his first day as president he will set up a constitutional showdown by ordering the military to defy a Supreme Court ruling extending some legal rights to foreign terrorism suspects and captured enemy combatants in U.S.
NCRI - In an international conference held in Paris on Friday, January 6, at the invitation of the CFID (French Committee for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran), dozens of distinguished American and European dignitaries warned of obstructions and non-co
Gov. Ed Rendell, Chair of the Democratic National Committee (1999-2001) and Governor of Pennsylvania (2002-2011) And then we didn't ask a second question, why relocate out of Camp Ashraf at all? Why? What was wrong, what harm was being done to the Iraqi
In an international conference held in Paris on Friday at the invitation of the CFID (French Committee for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran), dozens of distinguished American and European dignitaries warned of obstructions and non-cooperation by the Ir
On January 5, 2012 President Barack Obama announced a shift in the U.S.’s military size and ambitions, proposing a 14% reduction in troops and a $487 billion in budget cuts over the next ten years. Meanwhile, the American military was to retain full spec
WASHINGTON -- In a probe of arms trafficking during the George W. Bush administration, a federal prosecutor said it was wrong that law enforcement agents had allowed hundreds of guns to go into Mexico and into the hands of drug dealers, according to docu
Commenting on a USA TODAY editorial a couple of weeks ago on Gingrich’s campaign promise to, as president, haul-in judges whose rulings he doesn’t like, force them to explain their rulings and to abolish entire courts he doesn’t agree with, I said in a l
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through Police Plaza very important people were scampering to Commissioner Kelly's secret bunker that Kelly had secretly constructed in a sub-sub-basement of police headquarters. Kelly had summoned these very impo
Mr. Fitschen, when you claim that “the only fair reading” of something is your interpretation of it, that is an opinion — it does not take us “into the realm of fact.” More saliently, your opinion is emphatically wrong — and that is not just my opinion.
Michael Bernard Mukasey (pronounced /mjuːˈkeɪzi/) (born July 28, 1941) is an American lawyer, presently the 81st Attorney General of the United States, and follows Alberto Gonzales, who resigned from office. Mukasey also served for 18 years as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, six of those years... Full Article
Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey testifies during a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on violence against residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, on Capitol Hill in Washington July 7, 2011. In April, the settlement, the Iraqi base of an Iranian opposition group...
View Photo »(L-R) Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, retired U.S. Army Colonel Wesley Martin, Heart to Heart International President Gary Morsch, and Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh testify during a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on violence...
View Photo »Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey testifies during a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on violence against residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, on Capitol Hill in Washington July 7, 2011. In April, the settlement, the Iraqi base of an Iranian opposition group...
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