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Posted by constitutionallyspeaking on September 17, 2009 Today is Constitution Day. It was on this day, September 17, 1787, that the Constitution emerged for the first time from the convention in Philadelphia, Pa. Our blessed Constitution that was written not by men of all the same political faction, however, a coalition of men of many political factions, working together to “Form A More Perfect Union” and it was up to ‘We the People” to ensure its long lasting existence. Fast forward 222 years…

SNIPPET: "The Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) name has come up before in connection with terrorism plots, including the October 2002 Portland Seven and the September 2002 Lackawanna Six cases in the United States, as well as the August 2006 plot to bomb airliners en route from London to the United States, the July 7, 2005, London Underground bombings and the July 2007 attempted bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland. Over the past several years we also have received several queries about TJ from U.S. law enforcement officials who are concerned about the group’s presence and activities in the United States. U.S....

But, what makes East Asia different is that the Communist leaders were first and foremost, popular national heroes, who, by the above logic and the U.S. decision to support colonial colloborators or participants of past institutions, that happened to choose to be communist. You see, while I'm not exactly writing part IV in this installment, I'm setting the argument up for how economic development, or these so called "miracles" in East Asia seem to keep happening over and over again. Also, it has been pointed out that Mongolia is a state that does not enjoy economic development, which is geographically...

SNIPPET: "According to a report prepared by Pakistani police (the Crime Investigation Department), the AHF has funded approximately USD 15 million to Jihadi groups in Pakistan for carrying out terror attacks. These funds mostly went to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which is responsible for numerous suicide strikes in the last couple of years and also blamed for the assassination of Benezir Bhutto." SNIPPET: "Till 2004, the United States had designated at least thirteen AHF branch offices operating in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, in many African countries and in the United States. But in 2008, the US Treasury Department has designated...

I have been doing some research analyzing photos and crowd data to try and ascertain the crowd size of the 9/12/09 Tea Party protests (which I blogged on here). It seems the best, most recent reference point is President Obama’s inauguration, which was estimated at 1.8-2.0 million people. If you look at the pictures from last January’s Inauguration it looks at first glance like the Obama crowds dwarfed the Tea Party crowds. The Tea Party Crowds did not extend back the Washington Monument (there were other events on the Mall yesterday). On the flip side, the inauguration is a controlled,...

You see, I'm of the belief that President George W. Bush, the first president I voted for during the 2000 election cycle, though I really was pulling for Senator John McCain at that time, became president since he was a likeable figure thought to be not different than the average American (Though, former President Gore's likeability issue and disgraced activist Ralph Nader probably also had something to do with it), but yet, then Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. and a tutor of George W. Bush's answers precisely why the U.S. should care and in a very concise manner too. If...

I am so glad I get to say, “I was there!”This was the most incredible event I have ever participated in! Walking down Pennsylvania Ave. with all those people! We were singing, there was praying, the pledge of allegiance was said, there was a moment when the entire avenue erupted in a giant shout! It was like a wave that started from the back and slowly moved up the avenue. It was incredible. You could hear this giant shout from behind you moving closer and closer like a wave,, louder and louder and then it just swept over us and...

For those of you who are conservative and have long known that the State Media is biased against those who oppose their philosophy, the tone of the reporting is exactly what you would expect. I myself try to avoid the American counterparts of Tass and Pravda as much as humanly possible, preferring news to commentary. However, when I heard the report from ABC News Radio on Sunday morning, I had to do the audio version of a double-take. “As many as 75,000 protesters marched down Pennsylvania Avenue,” the report began. “75,000?” I wondered aloud. “How are they going to pull...

Where do AP, ABC, NBC, CNN, and FOX get their DC912 crowd estimates from? IMO The same place I do. And I say 2.5 million. Based on anecdotal twitter feed and the same camera shots everybody has seen. In other words a rough guess, but not uninformed. True science requires that method and data both be described, so that the result can be validated.

I’m still debating whether I should waste your time with these guys (Revolution Muslim). In the end, I think that it’s always better to know the arguments of those who openly support al-Qaida here in the United States (in this case, from New York City)… I recommend that you just click play and let it play in the background while you read your morning paper.

SNIPPET: "Whatever the number is, at some point you must assume that the people admitting online that they wish to emulate the 9/11 conspirators represent a larger pool of people who not only wish this, but who are at some stage of the process leading to "martyrdom". I'm not saying Google's lax policies in policing this kind of file filth will lead directly to another 9/11 style attack. But it is clear that one of the common denominators between all -- and I mean all -- homegrown jihadis is that they like to spend their free time watching these types...

Today, CanadaFreePress writer JB Williams posted a column discussing the two legally different documents that the Democratic National Committee produced to serve to the several Secretaries of State, in theory, certifying their presidential and vice-presidential candidates. The punchline? The one actually received by the States did not include language specifically referring to constitutional eligibility. Here’s AmericanDaughter.com’s take on the above-referenced article: Barack Obama and Joe Biden were not certified as legally eligible in the affidavits sent to the states by the Democratic National Committee. The tireless research of political writer J.B. Williams has uncovered the discrepancy. His bombshell article appears...

SNIPPET: "How Did the Posting of the Photos Actually Play Out? 1. At some point in July 2009, International Red Cross delegates photographed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his nephew, Ammar al-Baluchi. These photos were taken as part of a service that the ICRC has provided to at least the 107 detainees at Guantanamo who opted in. The service includes provide their families with photographed evidence that the detainee is alive and not being mistreated. 2. Specifically, each detainee selects their two favorite poses and print copies of those photographs along with a note from the ICRC are transmitted by the...

The Van Jones story isn't about another radical federal employee or even about President Obama's addiction to executive authority (he has appointed over 30 czars with whom he meets regularly, but he has held just one cabinet meeting since his inauguration). The Van Jones story is about our president: a man who fills the void in his emotional past with "authentic" black men who have no interior struggle for definition. President Obama has incessantly injected himself into racial matters that require no clarification (see Henry Louis Gates Jr.); he has turned every debate into a racial debate (see his 2008...

Thomas F. Bayard was a US Senator from Delaware between 1869 and 1885, which includes the Chester Arthur administration. From 1885 to 1889, Bayard was Secretary of State under Grover Cleveland. This is the same Bayard mentioned in Hinman’s book on Chester Arthur. Hinman wrote to Bayard and Bayard’s response has been erroneously cited by those who support Obama’s eligibility. For some reason I have yet to comprehend, they argue Bayard was aware of Chester Arthur having been born a British subject. But nothing in Bayard’s letter to Hinman supports that position. Regardless, due to a recent find by the...

[The research team from UCONN - UNDEAD REVOLUTION - have published "Part 1" of their exhaustive research on the historical meaning of the "natural born citizen" POTUS eligibility requirement. I am republishing their report here as my first guest blog. Please click through to their blog for the full report. I am simultaneously publishing my analysis of an incredible find by the UR team which firmly establishes that Chester Arthur's British birth was not known to the public while he was President and therefore sets no historical or legal precedent for Obama. Now, for your historical education, the Natural Born...

Phantom Ray will pick up where the UCAS program left off in 2006 by further demonstrating Boeing’s unmanned systems development capabilities in a fighter-sized, state-of-the-art aerospace system. The Boeing UCAS program began with the X-45A, which successfully flew 64 times from 2002 to 2005. Those flights included a demonstration exercise with two X-45A aircraft that marked the first unmanned, autonomous multivehicle flight under the control of a single pilot...] ...Currently planned Dec. 2, the Air Force Flight Test Center’s B-52 will carry the X-51A to 50,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean then release it. A solid rocket booster from an...

How Will We Judge the Korean War in a Century? [...] What I am arguing is will this be the consensus twenty years from today (or forty years after this article was written). I mean, yes, most ordinary South Koreans enjoys such material prosperity that probably only a select few and I mean a very select few in North Korea could only begin to dream about. I am saying that had the Korean War run its course without intervention from the United States (or equivalently had Harry S. Truman not settled on a policy, the Truman Doctrine, where not winning...

SNIPPET: "The elusive jihadi bloodhound, “Ms. Jones,” passed this article from the Saudi Gazette to me this morning. It digs deeper into the recent surrender of Fawaz al-Otaibi (65. Fawaz Al-Humaidi Hajid Al-Habradi Al-Otaibi) on the 85 Most Wanted List of February 2009. I’m not sure how much we can make of it, but the Gazette discusses the interview that al-Otaibi did with Al-Watan last week where he said that al-Qaida is suffering from ’financial crisis’ and therefore not able to deal with the numbers of foreign fighters that it has knocking on their door as of late." SNIPPET: "Well,...

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: TALIBAN PROPAGANDA WATCH: Their Stats for the Month The Taliban Info Machine has published an English-language version of its latest summary of their stats, shared via a pro-terrorist web page here (PDF of chart available at non-terrorist page here). Also, another attempt at video-izing the stats is available at YouTube here. Same concept as last month – theunjustmedia.com intro & extro, followed by black screen, white text and Stephen-Hawking-esque audio reading the headings and numbers – with a couple of differences. 1) This month’s was WAY shorter (~2 minutes), as opposed to...