World-News

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/14/11

In todays? blog, I thought I would share with you a deeply insightful quote by Alan Barth (1906-1979), who served on the Washington Posts? editorial board for 30 years. The quote is from his book The Rights of Free Men, which was published posthumously in 1984. As you read the quote, keep in mind that we now live in a country in which the government - specifically the president and his military - now wields the authority to barge down peoples? door to seize them, cart them away to a concentration camp or military dungeon for indefinite detention, torture them, or even execute them...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-10-14.asp



Pandoras? box wide open

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

10/15/11

Senior U.S. government officials in the Obama administration have now candidly admitted to reporters on condition of anonymity that American citizens are added to a kill or capture list by the decision of a secretive National Security Council panel which reports its decisions to the president...

http://bit.ly/qH1fPV



Obama: A disaster for civil liberties

Los Angeles Times
by Jonathan Turley

09/29/11

With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism. There is one related subject, however, that is rarely mentioned: civil liberties. ... One man is primarily responsible for the disappearance of civil liberties from the national debate, and he is Barack Obama...

http://tinyurl.com/6f4sgoq



Justice for all

Reason
by Kmele Foster

10/14/11

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will be formally dedicated this Sunday in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama will be on hand, as will a cadre of politicos, celebrities, and luminaries of the civil rights movement. The controversy surrounding the memorial, however, may dampen the occasion...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/14/justice-for-all


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Campaign Reports More than 350 Big Bundlers

By Peter Stone, Elizabeth Lucas

More than 350 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55 million so far this year to President Obama's re-election efforts, And more than 40 bundlers each roped in at least $500,000.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29429.htm



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