U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has withdrawn its invitation to Iran to participate in the Syria peace talks due in part to heavy opposition from the United States. If we were consistent on our policies with Iran, then we could make serious strides to resolution of some serious issues in that region. Alas, we bicker like …
Continue reading David’s Political RoundUp 1/20/2014 – UN pulls Iran from Syria Peace Talks, Omaha Explosion, Sochi Bombers, and Obama on Marijuana.Politics
A Senate Report on Benghazi was issued today indicating that the State Department made critical issues in the protection of the American Libyan consulate office in 2011. Conservatives are using it as an opportunity to sling mud at what they’ve decided is the Democratic leader for President in 2016, Hilary Clinton. Chris Christie’s top aides …
Continue reading David’s Political RoundUp 1/16/2014 – Benghazi, Chris Christie, and Gay Marriage in OklahomaThis is my inaugural Political Roundup. I’ll try to do daily analysis of stories of political/public interest. I have no writers, this is just some interesting stuff I found. Testing results from Duke University show that there are dangerous levels of methane gas in the water of a Texas community, despite the fact that the …
Continue reading David’s Political Roundup – Fracking, Shots Fired, Ambassador D. Rodman, Chris Christie Federal Investigation, Octo-Mom Accused of Welfare FraudTwitter is a flutter with the news that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty (a show I’ve never watched) gave an interview to GQ (a magazine I’ve never read) and as a result, A&E (a channel I never watch) suspended the reality star indefinitely. The reason? Because, according to A&E: “We are extremely disappointed to have …
Continue reading Duck Dynasty v. A&E: A First Amendment Primer.While there has been an outcry from conservatives about Attorney Eric Holder investigating possible hate crimes in the death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman, and at his appearing at a NNACP convention, I was surprised at the lack of media coverage on everything else the Department of Justice is doing. Just …
Continue reading The DOJ Does More Than Pander to the MediaYesterday I blogged about the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher vs. The University of Texas and how legislation with a discriminatory impact that does not have a discriminatory intent does not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Today’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby vs. Holder deserves a similar analysis, with what I consider a different …
Continue reading Supreme Court in Shelby Opens the Door for Voter ID Civil Rights LitigationThe IRS scandal I wrote about last week now has a new twist: Louis Lerner, the officer responsible for scrutinizing Tea Party 501(c)(4) applications, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination on the stand in front of a house congressional meeting. Her invocation came after House Speaker John Boehner stated that he wanted to …
Continue reading Waiving the Fifth Amendment — Lois Lerner and the IRS ScandalThe news is once again a flutter with the George Zimmerman murder case for the shooting of Trayvon Martin last February. What once was prematurely characterized by the left-wing media as a hate crime and the right-wing media as the justifiable vigilante conduct of a devout second-amendment-er is now merely a run-of-the-mill over-publicized murder trial that …
Continue reading Zimmerman Can’t Stand His Ground With “Stand Your Ground”AP is reporting today that the Senate rejected expanded background checks, ostensibly making the pushes for gun control regulations following Sandy Hook dead. I was under the impression that in the early 90’s the NRA supported universal background checks. Apparently, those facts were skewed by Joe Biden. I did a little research on the Republican platform on Gun …
Continue reading The Law that Killed Gun Control Protects Abortion RightsLanguage is what bogs down our country’s people’s road to freedom, liberty, and uniform rights. This is why “separate but equal” was the law of the land until 1954 when it was declared “inherently unequal.” The law that African Americans used to achieve their accomplishments in the civil rights movement is the same law that …
Continue reading An Argument of Language – Hollingsworth v. Perry, SCOTUS and Gay Marriage