This week’s suggested Sunday reads…
Dick Cheney. Unplugged, and unashamed. Writes AWR Hawkins in an excellent piece for Pajamas Media,
Cheney deserves our praise and affection, for he has the courage of his convictions. And even at the cost of being scorned by Europeans, major newspapers, fringe leftists, and moderates in his own party, he has remained conservative and unashamed.
Indeed. As I noted in this post a long while back, the world needs more great men like Dick Cheney. AWR’s piece today reminds us of this great American’s record of service to our Nation. A service that goes unappreciated by too many, if you ask me…
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A short blurb by the AP reports Obama has picked Stephanie Cutter,
a seasoned Democratic political operative to guide his Supreme Court nominee on Capitol Hill.
It further states that she
coordinated the Democrats’ opposition to President George W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
My question is this… Who will lead the coordinated Republican effort to oppose whoever Obama picks? Why, I’ll bet the confirmation hearings will be just as "contentious" as the cabinet ones were. Oh, wait…
This is why we need more Republicans like Dick Cheney, and less like Orin Hatch and Judd Gregg. Come on boys, where’s the fight?
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Would Attorney General Ayotte give these guys a pass, too? You know, rule it "justified?"
9:20am A second officer arrived on the scene. He immediately approached Adam and said “Get that camera out of my face!” Adam started to lower the camera and explain that “I like to hold people accountable” when the second officer ripped the video camera from Adam’s hand and roughly handcuffed him (It should be noted that the Jones County Sheriff, Alex Hodge, later acknowledged that the “video taping had nothing to do with these gentlemen being arrested and no its not illegal in Mississippi”). While this was happening Adam asked “Why are you doing this?” and the second officer replied “You’re disobeying an officer.” Pete, who was still at the front-right of Officer Atkin’s vehicle, asked “What’s going on!?” and was ordered to “Stay there!”
Read the whole thing. It’s scary how helpless ordinary citizens are in the face of law enforcement willing to stretch, bend, and otherwise trample the law when they see fit. While the story above involves NH-erites in Mississippi, similar tales can be found much closer to home. Recall this one, as told here on the ‘Grok…
