Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Don Surber, by way of Kate at Small Dead Animals:
Before he left office, President Bush 43 had a conviction of 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court. All President Obama had to do was accept KSM’s guilty plea.
But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
That was in a military court.
Military court may be fine for our soldiers, but liberals refuse to allow their soldiers, er, the other side’s alleged soldiers, to go through that.
President Obama had those guilty pleas vacated and set up to hold a civilian trial near Ground Zero.
New York City soon had a shortage of tar and feathers and so the decision was put on hold.
LAST NOVEMBER, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced that the federal government would prosecute Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a Manhattan federal courthouse.
One year later – and nine years after the attack – Mr. Mohammed has yet to be brought to justice. The administration’s paralysis is as confounding as it is damaging.
The Authorization for the Use of Military Force allows the administration to continue to hold Mr. Mohammed without trial. Preventive detention should be available to a president in cases in which there is not enough admissible evidence to bring a prosecution but where intelligence reports indicate that a suspect is too dangerous to release. The White House and Congress should work together to fashion a legal framework to govern such cases.
But the government has a moral and legal obligation, and strong policy reasons, to bring formal charges whenever possible. Detention without trial should not be a default position to avoid tough political calls.
This is what you happens when you politicize justice. Voters should hold him accountable for this miscarriage of justice. No, really, it is an abortion. President Obama had the conviction. He threw it away.
So now, in order for a society to be civilized, it’s supposed to throw away the convictions its government has already won against the bad guys? Gosh, I dunno you hard-left dovey libs; this is starting to look more and more like just letting ’em walk, and less and less like affording them their presumed innocence, right to counsel, et al. Are we at the point now where “We Are Better Than” finding someone guilty when he’s guilty?
Update: Regarding that guy who was convicted on one count out of 281 zillion…Ed Morrissey has a good argument up persuading toward the obvious: The wrong guy is in charge of Justice. The Attorney General needs to go.
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