http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nomoreconstitution/ en-us Wed, 6 Feb 2013 02:07:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2985685/posts During a panel discussion on Tuesday's NBC Today about the White House releasing a photo of President Obama skeet shooting to dispel doubt about his claim of doing it "all the time," co-host Matt Lauer worried about the precedent that had been set: "So like releasing the birth certificate a year or so ago, this is the next step, that now the President always has to back up his words with proof?" NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2985685/posts#comment Wed, 6 Feb 2013 02:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2894606/posts By opening an investigation into the leaks of classified information, the Obama White House appears to be entering the kind of perilous Fill-In-The-Blank-Gate terrain that has eventually engulfed most administrations in the modern era. The pattern: an initial investigation launched to relieve mounting political pressure snowballs into a much larger scandal, leaving a trail of broken careers in its wake. And the beginnings of that pattern are in place: Attorney General Eric Holder Friday appointed two federal prosecutors to oversee multiple FBI investigations into leaks involving stories in recently published books and articles in the New York Times, AP, and... Buzz feed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2894606/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:43:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664070/posts With virtually no mention in the mainstream media, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez convened on June 15, the first meeting of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), an apparently extra-constitutional advisory group organized by the Department of Commerce (DOC) under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). A March 31 press release on the White House website, under the title “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America: Progress,” announced the formation of the NACC. The press release noted that the NACC would meet annually “with security and prosperity Ministers and will engage with senior government officials on an... Human Events Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664070/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:50:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1048046/posts Protecting the wrong peopleNRA proposal could hamper police, help criminalsSarasota Herald-Tribune editorial 12/29/2003 The National Rifle Association is so obsessed with slippery-slope, Second Amendment theories that it's pushing for a change in state policy that inadvertently could assist criminals. Unfortunately, the NRA has the clout in Florida to get the policy change proposed as legislation. State Rep. Lindsay Harrington, R-Punta Gorda, is sponsoring a bill that would prohibit police departments from keeping permanent records of gun owners who sell or pawn their weapons at pawnshops. Police have long maintained databases of pawned items to make it easier to locate stolen... Sarasota Herald-Tribune ("SHT" for short) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1048046/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:33:30 GMT