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US Marines stationed in southern Europe have been put on alert as a precaution in advance of expected large demonstrations and potential unrest in Egypt this weekend, CNN has learned. About 200 combat capable Marines in Sigonella, Italy, and Moron, Spain, have been told to be ready to be airborne within 60 minutes of getting orders to deploy, according to two administration officials. The units have several V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft that would carry troops and infantry weapons to Egypt to protect the US Embassy and American government personnel and citizens if violence broke out against Americans.

On October 22, the organization known as WikiLeaks published a cache of 391,832 classified documents on its website. The documents are mostly field reports filed by U.S. military forces in Iraq from January 2004 to December 2009 (the months of May 2004 and March 2009 are missing). The bulk of the documents (379,565, or about 97 percent) were classified at the secret level, with 204 classified at the lower confidential level. The remaining 12,062 documents were either unclassified or bore no classification. This large batch of documents is believed to have been released by Pfc. Bradley Manning, who was arrested...

Make no mistake about it, the ongoing WikiLeaks operation against the US is an act of war. It is not merely a criminal offense to publish hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents with malice aforethought. It is an act of sabotage. Like acts of kinetic warfare on military battlefields, WikiLeaks' information warfare against the US aims to weaken the US. By exposing US government secrets, it seeks to embarrass and discredit America in a manner that makes it well neigh impossible for the US to carry out either routine diplomacy or build battlefield coalitions to defeat its enemies....

A Primer in Constitutional law 1. With the U.S. Constitution, We The People created the federal government. It is our “creature”, and has no powers other than those We granted to it in The Constitution. Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), says re “constitution”: ...In free states, the constitution is paramount to the statutes or laws enacted by the legislature, limiting and controlling its power; and in the United States, the legislature is created, and its powers designated, by the constitution. If you, dear Reader, will study this paper and read the Constitution, you will know more about...

[Embedded links to each case on ABA page] Abbott v. United States, Docket No. 09-479 Ali v. Achim, Docket No. 06-1346 Arave v. Hoffman, Docket No. 07-110 Arizona Christian School Tuition Org., v. Winn, Docket No. 09-987 and Garriott, Dir., Arizona Dept. of Revenue v. Winn, Docket No. 09-991 (consolidated) Astra USA, Inc., v. Santa Clara County, CA, Docket No. 09-1273 AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, Docket No. 09-893 Boeing Company v. United States, Docket No. 09-1273 and General Dynamics Corp., v. United States, Docket No.09-1298 (consolidated) Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, Inc., Docket No. 09-152 Bullcoming v. New Mexico, Docket No....

Don't Ask Don't Tell! Why do leaders lie? Do they believe their lies are the truth? As transparent as they appear, nations, groups and hordes of people seemingly collude or join up in their complicity. How is it possible that they get away with such outlandish mythical comments such as: Benjamin Netanyahu is a “skilled killer” or the Holocaust never existed? Or that there is not one single homosexual in all of Iran? Even today Ahmadinocchio is at it again. He reports he is going to be throwing rocks at the Israeli border on or around October 13th when he...

Is the Republican establishment losing it? Is the party leadership capable of uniting a governing coalition as Richard Nixon did before Watergate and Ronald Reagan resurrected in the 1980s? Observing the hysteria and nastiness of Karl Rove and the GOP establishment at the stunning triumph of Tea Party Princess Christine O'Donnell, the answer is no. This party is not ready to rule. Consider. In its grand strategy to recapture a Senate that George W. Bush and Rove lost in 2006, the GOP Senate leadership endorsed all its own caucus members for re-election, if they chose to run, then picked out...

The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence, or veiled in fable, and perhaps the world has lost little it should regret. But the origins of the American Republic contain lessons of which posterity ought not to be deprived.—James MadisonThe Articles of Confederation proved barely adequate during the imperative of war and a failure after independence was achieved. A few years after the Paris Peace Treaty, our military had been reduced to near extinction, depression and inflation sapped hope, insurrection sprang from civil injustice, a confused government tottered perilously close to collapse, and European powers hovered like vultures,...

As the Department of Health and Human Services starts the process of drafting the 30,000 to 50,000 pages of regulations to implement the 2,800-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, you have to wonder how the regulations drafted by unseen regulators are going to enhance anyone's health care [i]. ObamaCare will be the largest transfer of legislative power from the Congress to the Executive Branch regulators in our history. And everyone who gets, or doesn't get, health care in the case of rationing will be most personally affected by this vast sea of regulations. Now we...

The latest news on the debt that the US owes triggered the above title. Will all generations currently alive in this nation, including newborns, be saddled with debt past their death? On hearing the news, the thought occurred that the US government is going to keep running up debt until this leads to the death of the country – not death in a literal sense – but “death” of the “shining city on a hill,” into to a third world dump, where dumpster diving becomes the norm. This national debt situation is becoming like a bad marriage, and making “we...

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National Debt Clock 13,164,541,495,148 (8:35AM CST 27 June 2010) A million seconds pass in 12 days. A billion seconds pass in 31 years. A trillion seconds pass in 31,688 years!

Every president should expect to be awakened with news that a volcano has blown a bit of hell into the sky, whether it's a volcano whose rumblings and foul puffs have long been shaking and stinking a warning; one whose frightful explosion takes everyone by surprise; or one that never before existed but suddenly, from a fissure in a peaceful cornfield, blasts itself into a menacing fright. Of course, this volcanic imagery serves as a metaphor for profound problems in all their terrible unpredictability, a reality which comes to mind today because too many people are wringing their hands that...

When presented with an opportunity to properly characterize the thug tactics of the Obama political machine, John Boehner and Eric Cantor chose instead to revert to the abysmal fawn and grovel strategy of the invertebrate wing of the GOP. On January 2, 1995, after eighteen days of a budget standoff between the new Republican congressional majorities and President Bill Clinton, Senator Majority Leader Bob Dole uttered his infamous "Enough is enough!" capitulation, essentially sounding the death knell of the short-lived "Republican Revolution." Under the leadership of Dole, along with House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), the Republicans were on the cusps...

The McCain campaign has been brutally attacking JD Hayworth for appearing in an informercial on how to apply for government grants. Hypocritically, McCain's own Senate website (http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ConstituentServices.FederalGrantFunding) prominently features a lengthy list of government grants to apply for. It is disturbing that due to the $5 million war chest the McCain campaign already had when it came into the Senate race, plus threatening people away who dare to support Hayworth, that the McCain campaign has been able to divert attention in the race to the 1% difference Hayworth shares with Senator Jim DeMint, the most conservative member in all of...

It seems like it is never going to end, doesn’t it? It is getting to be ‘Kind of a Drag’, as the Buckinghams used to sing. There are lots of reasons why this recession is taking so long to break out of. We happen to think that the Obama White House and Congress have played two very wrong cards in their efforts to turn around the economy: 1) excessive direct federal spending when a good jolt of business-targeted tax cuts would have jump-started the economy and 2) laying down a never-ending list of new humongous federal programs that will have...

A cab ride in Washington, DC on a weekday afternoon in June gives you a feeling of the national mood. It’s oppressively hot and humid and the traffic is horrible. By the time you reach your destination, you feel strangled and oppressed and just want relief. Amidst the current lethargic economic recovery, with unemployment still just under 10%, the one growth stock remains government. Washington, DC is a boom town today as the answer our current administration proposes for every single problem and challenge facing us is more government. Government spending is now 25% of our GDP. This is five...

Instead of an oil spill commission staffed with experts, as promised in his Oval Office address, the president has announced a panel with membership that reads like a Who's Who of radical environmentalism. Former Senator Graham of Florida, for example, has consistently pushed for a ban on oil drilling, and Frances Beinecke of the National Resources Defense Council has argued for the global warming agenda -- including linking "global poverty" to global warming, an argument used at the Copenhagen conference to support reparations to be paid to nations such as Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe for our supposed global crimes. In fact,...

Hats off to Senator Jeff Sessions! The top Republican on the Senate's Judiciary Committee has opened up an important new front in the debate over Solicitor General Elena Kagan's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court: Her attitude towards the repressive legal code authoritative Islam calls Shariah and her enabling of efforts to insinuate it into this country. By so doing, the Alabama legislator has given his colleagues and the country an opportunity not only to flesh out and evaluate the thin public record of President Obama's second nominee to a lifetime appointment on the nation's highest court. The Senator...

Mexico asked a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's immigration law unconstitutional, because "the country's own interests and its citizens' rights are at stake." [Snip] Mexico also said it has a legitimate interest in defending its citizens' rights and that the law would lead to racial profiling, hinder trade and tourism, and strain the countries' work on combatting drug trafficking and related violence. [Snip]