2005 July 14 | Part-Time Pundit

That’s All They Got?

That’s all they got? Novak calls, tells him how he thinks it went down and Rove responds, “I heard that, too”. That’s even thinner than Cooper’s testimony.

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July 14th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | National | 5 comments

NYTimes Has New “Exclusive” Details on Plame Case

On front page of Drudge Report is the claim that the NYTimes has new and exclusive details on the Plame case. Of course, they wouldn’t want to share them first with the prosecutor investigating the case nor would they want to recuse themselves from reporting on it considering one of their own reporters is in jail for refusing to cooperate with the prosecutor and come clean. They fault the White House for clamming up, but they are faultless for doing the same thing about their own involvement… go figure.

Maybe they’ll be coming out with the source they used, because it isn’t Rove that Judith Miller is sitting in jail to protect. More likely, they’ll continue their attack on the White House in an attempt to be objective or something.

Maybe they realize that if Rove committed a crime by releasing the name (a fact far from proven) that they ALSO committed a crime by printing that same name. It takes 2 to tango… if Rove goes down, so does the MSM because in the end, they are just as guilty.

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July 14th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | National | no comments

Let’s See What Joseph Wilson has to Hide

I’ve just FOIA’d his personnel records from the State Department… we’ll see what’s in them.

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July 14th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | National | no comments

Will the Left Protest China’s Nuke-First Policy?

At a government organized conference, a Chinese colonel said China should nuke the US in response to a conventional attack against Chinese assets if a conflict started over Taiwan.

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July 14th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Military / War | one comment

There Comes a Point Where Gun Laws Should Be Disobeyed

New York police to warn public on suicide bombers

If the New York Police are teaching people to recognize suicide bombers, they are still leaving them incapable of doing anything about it. Here is a scenario:

You are sitting on a bus and see wires hanging out of someone’s jacket. You yell “Police!”… BOOM. Too late. You call 911, they overhear… BOOM. Too late.

Or how about this scenario, the guy pulls a shoe bomber, stands in the middle of the bus and says something about the jihad and how he’s going to kill you… POP POP. Bomber is dead.

Sure, we don’t want people going around capping people randomly, but in the end the citizens are the best able to respond because before you can think to call the police there are body parts all over the block. Sure, someone with a gun might not get the guy in time… but if it prevents on bombing that kills a bunch of people, isn’t that enough?

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July 14th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Law / Legal Issues | 5 comments

StopTheACLU: Exactly Which Civil Liberties Are Important?

As everyone knows, there is an opening on the Supreme Court. As some might not know, I’m a candidate for the opening. But since this is Thursday, and I’ve punked out on Stop the ACLU posts for awhile, I thought I’d do an ACLU post.

You can see the ACLU’s pages on the Supreme Court here and here. They go on to suggest that all our civil liberties are going away if Bush gets to choose the nominee as the Constitution suggests. t first, I wasn’t sure what country they were talking about as I don’t know anyone grabbed out of the home in the middle of the night, I’ve not seen tanks patrolling the streets, and I don’t recall getting guidelines of what is acceptable speech (at least not from the Right).

What I find telling is that no where does the ACLU seem to care about the Kelo decision, which is where the Supreme Court recently decided that if a city government wants to give your house to someone else in the name of “economics” it can. While the town still has to pay you, ultimately the government can now decide who can live where with the prime real estate going to those who have money and/or are politically connected.

The ACLU’s Supreme Court page makes no note of this huge issue but instead talks about civil liberties in an eccletic bunch of cases having to do with miscellaneous provisions in state or federal code. Pardon me, but isn’t the right to own property at the very core of our civil liberties? Sure, having restraining orders enforced is all fine and good, but the government having the ability to throw you out of your home to give it to someone richer strikes me as a much more important issue as it effects every single person in this country, MOST ESPECIALLY the poor. If we want to get a position on an issue for a future nominee (which, by the way is unethical because any time a judge prejudges a case he may have to recuse from future cases. i.e. asking a judge where he stands on abortion may force that judge to never be able to rule on abortion cases) it might by a position on the Kelo case.

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