Posts under ‘Constitution’

Finally some positive news to report on! Here goes:
Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
December 16, 2008
A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system.
Until the ruling, recipients of so-called “national security letters” were legally forbidden [...]

Chicago Tribune
Tim Jones
UPDATE: The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene [...]

Thanks to HFFT for this:
READ THE HIGHLY DETAILED REPORT
A notable quote from this report:
There is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the COLB image created and distributed by Obama’s campaign to the Daily Kos, Annenberg’s Factcheck, and the St. Pete Times, Politifact, is, unquestionably, a false identification document. Furthermore, there is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that [...]

This video explains the entire issue very well and shows how the MSNBC article was misleading. Just another piece of this puzzle:

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It’s sickening people have to file lawsuits at all. You have to show a birth certificate to get a driver’s license, why not to serve as President (where citizenship is a Constitutional requirement)? Sorry smrstrauss, I know you think the opposition needs to supply evidence of Kenyan birth in order to pursue this — but [...]

Hon. James David Manning tells people to support Alan Keyes and others who are demanding to see if Barack Hussein Obama is eligible to be President. Message was preached on Saturday, 15 November 2008. If you recall, this is the same black preacher who critiqued Barack Obama, claiming he is a “Mac Daddy who pimps [...]

BENJAMIN WEISER
The New York Times
November 25, 2008
The authorities may lawfully conduct searches and electronic surveillance against United States citizens in foreign countries without a warrant, a federal appeals court panel said on Monday, bolstering the government’s power to investigate terrorism by ruling that a key constitutional protection afforded to Americans does not apply overseas.
The unanimous [...]

And yet another piece of information is added to our lively discussion of the controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s national origin, citizenship, and birth certificate. . . .
I saw this over at Advance Indiana:
Detroit radio talk show host Mark Fellhauer and his colleagues on WFIR’s “Mike In The Morning” believe they got Kenyan Ambassador to the [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.
Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).
“It is [...]

I was asked how I can call myself a patriot and run this website the other day. Let me remind you that I have been serving in the Army National Guard for over four years and plan on continuing to do so. Here is the oath of enlistment I took when I joined:
“I, Daniel _____, [...]