Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
A new Tea Party group, Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots, has grown quickly since being launched last month by an active duty Marine Corps sergeant. The group, which vows to “stand up on the very soil we defended to preserve common sense conservatism and defend our Constitution that is threatened by a tyrannical government,” currently has over 400 members, who have signed up through its Facebook page, though many are not active duty military. And it has close ties to the broader Tea Party movement.
“My oath was to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and that oath will be kept. I wont’ “Just follow” orders. There is at this time a debate within the ranks of the military regarding their oath. Some mistakenly believe they must follow any order the President issues. But many others do understand that their loyalty is to the Constitution and to the people…”
According to this guy, every member of the military is free to interpret the Constitution as they wish (or, of course, listen to Glenn Beck and get a crash course on how NOT to interpret the Constitution) and disobey orders at will. Lovely. Experts on the military say this guy is walking a fine line between First Amendment rights and sedition.
Eight years of a corrupt, inept administration running roughshod over the Constitution and not a peep from the right. Get one liberal black guy in as President and they all come running out from the rocks they hide under yelling “Save the Constitution!”
Oh shutup already.
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I get so disgusted when I see former or current military turning extreme. I served under President Reagan and although I didn’t vote for him, he was Commander in Chief and we were taught to respect him. It’s terrible that they don’t seem to be teaching this to our servicemen and women anymore, or if they are, so many are ignoring it.
Apparently, these military guys haven’t read the guidelines for when they can lawfully disobey an order. The guidelines are quite clear. They need to go back and read the book on military justice. My late husband was 20 Navy Ret. and he gave me a general sense of what it says. It says that to disobey an order you need to prove that the order is in direct conflict with higher orders that are already explicitly given and violates the mission, when an order is to kill unarmed civilians, when an order is to kill other military personnel without cause, when the order violates the military code of conduct, when the order willfully and unnecessarily endangers the lives of others without being a part of the mission. There are several other parameters but this gives a general sense that orders are given to complete a mission, have respect for human life, follow the Geneva conventions and other human rights treaties we are signatories to, and to adhere to the military code of conduct. Disobeying orders otherwise is a political act and if military personnel choose to disobey outside the guidelines, they are doing politics, not military conduct and their actions can land them in a courts martial. Being enticed to disregard the Commander-in-Chief because of the comments of political groups is a very foolish move that those military personnel should think long and hard about if they wish to serve their country with honor.
I get so disgusted when I see former or current military turning extreme. I served under President Reagan and although I didn’t vote for him, he was Commander in Chief and we were taught to respect him. It’s terrible that they don’t seem to be teaching this to our servicemen and women anymore, or if they are, so many are ignoring it.
Didn’t we notice the all volunteer military was moving this way all along? Have you checked out those wack jobs in Colorado Springs lately?
This guy already crossed the line into sedition. I think he’d prefer chaos and anarchy
Apparently, these military guys haven’t read the guidelines for when they can lawfully disobey an order. The guidelines are quite clear. They need to go back and read the book on military justice. My late husband was 20 Navy Ret. and he gave me a general sense of what it says. It says that to disobey an order you need to prove that the order is in direct conflict with higher orders that are already explicitly given and violates the mission, when an order is to kill unarmed civilians, when an order is to kill other military personnel without cause, when the order violates the military code of conduct, when the order willfully and unnecessarily endangers the lives of others without being a part of the mission. There are several other parameters but this gives a general sense that orders are given to complete a mission, have respect for human life, follow the Geneva conventions and other human rights treaties we are signatories to, and to adhere to the military code of conduct. Disobeying orders otherwise is a political act and if military personnel choose to disobey outside the guidelines, they are doing politics, not military conduct and their actions can land them in a courts martial. Being enticed to disregard the Commander-in-Chief because of the comments of political groups is a very foolish move that those military personnel should think long and hard about if they wish to serve their country with honor.