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Senator seeks to cover up report showing Honduras acted legally in removing authoritarian ex-president

Senator seeks to cover up report showing Honduras acted legally in removing authoritarian ex-president

The Obama administration and congressional allies like Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) are seeking to silence government lawyers who point out their mistakes and misinterpretations of the law:

“A month ago, the Law Library of Congress reviewed the removal of Manuel Zelaya from his post as President of Honduras, an act that the Obama administration called a ‘coup’ and demanded reversed for its illegality.  To the embarrassment of the White House and State Department, the Congressional body determined that Honduras acted lawfully in removing…

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Tea Parties and the Wisdom of Mobs

Tea Parties and the Wisdom of Mobs

In The Wall Street Journal, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, describes the ways in which today’s “tea party” protests signal a new era of political activism.

So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing “flash crowds” — groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that…

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