Constitution

WLKY News Louisville | (Video News Report) | – – WLKY News Louisville: “5 of Kim Davis’ deputies to issue marriage licenses, Davis still jailed”

Constitution

Kentucky Christian mini-caliphate still denying Gay Marriage Licenses in Name of God

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AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Kim Davis, a clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples one day after the Supreme Court told her she had no legal ground to stand on.” AJ+: “Same-Sex Marriage Licenses STILL Denied By Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis”

Constitution

Campaign of fear: Donald Trump’s battle against birthright citizenship

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By Anthony J Gaughan | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump is a man of extraordinary self-confidence. Since launching his presidential bid in June, he has boasted of his immense wealth, his academic credentials and his intelligence, going so far as to declare: “I’m, like, a really smart person.” But the most telling feature […]

Bill of Rights

A CIA Eyewitness blows the Whistle on Bushie Torturers still Justifying Crimes

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By John Kiriakou | (Foreign Policy in Focus/ Otherwords.org) | – – They can call it anything they want, but the CIA tortured its prisoners. And that's a crime against humanity. The CIA’s torture-era leadership just won’t repent. Even after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report saying in no uncertain terms that […]

Bill of Rights

New Proof: AT&T and NSA’s Long Surveillance Partnership shredded 4th Amendment

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By Mark Rumold | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF’s Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008—that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastructure, resulting in unconstitutional seizure and search of of millions, if not hundreds […]

Bill of Rights

Brothers in Arms: Jeb Bush Won’t Say ‘No’ To Future Torture

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By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org | – – ‘This is what happens when you don’t prosecute officials for illegally torturing people.’ While also foregoing the opportunity to condemn the establishment of a torture program authorized and ordered by his brother, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has said he won’t rule out the […]

Barack Obama

Obama Says Netanyahu’s Interference in American Politics “Unprecedented”

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By IMEMC | – – US President Barack Obama, in an interview with CNN, said that Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s interference in American politics is “unprecedented”, especially following the Iran deal. In the interview, which will be fully aired later on Sunday, Obama was asked if it was “appropriate of a foreign head of […]

Bill of Rights

Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Well we had the primetime GOP debate, so the 2016 election season has formally begun. Trump declared himself more or less an independent. When Megyn Kelly pressed him on his history of misogyny and putting down women, he threatened not to be nice to her any […]

Barack Obama

Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole – (Informed Comment) – It is said that one of the things President Obama wanted to talk to comedian Jon Stewart about was his occasional cynicism. “Obama scolded him for turning young Americans cynical.” But the approach to politics taken by Obama until recently — of promising genuine change but governing as […]