Padilla and the teetering scales (tags)
Jose Padilla won reprieve from the courts today who ruled that his designation as an enemy combatant by our own King George was unconstitutional. After over a year in confinement, shredded habeus corpus, and not even one charge brought against him, he is finally entitled to a fair trial.
MARTIN SHEEN PARDONS IRISH PEACE ACTIVISTS (tags)
The Pit Stop Ploughshare Community in Ireland received a pardon from "acting" President Martin Sheen on May 23 just in case the Irish government does not grant the peace activists a fair trial.
You Won The Battle But Lost The War (tags)
Today in the United States there are people who spit on the memory of your sacrifices -- people like Sen. Charles Schumer, who successfully pushes "gun control" laws that trash the Second Amendment, and Sen. John McCain, whose infamous "campaign finance" law made free speech a federal crime for independent advocacy groups. We shrink before officials who decree that unpopular opinions are "hate speech." We endure leaders who tell us that it's wrong to hate certain groups of people, but perfectly okay for those groups to hate and malign others.