George W. Bush, after the capture of Saddam Hussein:
"The success of yesterday’s mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator’s footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate them."

Barack Obama, after the death of bin Laden:
"And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as I continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by my intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that I had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan."

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"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws"
~~Ayn Rand

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Left wing fundamentalists want the established law and process of this country to be overturned so they can punish those they hate. Progressive Obama supporters will not accept the rule of law, will not accept due process, will not accept evidence, will not accept the results of a jury, will not accept anything that in any way disagrees with what the progressive left wants to push.

These are the things that civilize our society. Barack Obama and the left are demanding they be suspended so the left gets its way. They truly want a one-party system. They are my enemy.

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Zimmerman verdict an indictment of us all?

Not hardly

It was a finding that there was insufficient evidence to meet the standard of establishing Zimmerman's culpability of criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt.

If there is cause for outrage, perhaps it is that the legacy news media has barraged the polity with a relentless, dogmatic narrative focused upon race when the evidence did not support it. Educated and apparently intelligent people repeatedly said things that they seemed genuinely, and even ardently, to be certain of, but which were not demonstrable and often even incomprehensible.

The NY Times coined the term "white Hispanic" to describe Zimmerman. NBC News intentionally manipulated a tape of Zimmerman's 911call, causing him to sound racist when, in fact, he wasn't.

Indeed, perhaps such manipulation of the reportage of this case – not the verdict – is the sine qua non for the violence and vandalism occurring in Los Angeles and Oakland for the past two nights.

And apparently, now this newspaper's editors are chiming in to second-guess the jury and to mischaracterize its verdict to promote other, more political agendas such as reversing "government spending cutbacks."

Give me a break!

The bottom line is that six jurors who actually heard and deliberated over ALL the evidence did not vindicate or canonize Zimmerman - all they did was conclude that the evidence failed to establish that he is a criminal beyond a reasonable doubt.

It is what it is. Nothing more; nothing less. .

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Obama took a health care system that was working for most people and complicated it, while jeopardizing insurance coverage for responsible working citizens. He could have simply found a way to offer affordable coverage to those who lacked it, but NO, he had to enact a huge federal takeover of 1/6th of the economy. Repeal Obamacare and start over. There are too many problems with this messy, disastrous law.