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The Washington Times is reporting that The Obama administration on Tuesday had Obama's National Security Council (NSC) take control of congressional briefings on the Fort Hood killings and asked Democratic leaders to delay a probe, as top Republicans said intelligence shortcomings blamed for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks are re-emerging. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said that the NSC had taken over the briefings "due to the high visibility of the issues surrounding the tragic event at Fort Hood," and that Democratic leaders agreed to postpone any congressional action on the shootings. "This...

by Mark Finkelstein July 10, 2006 In the world of the liberal media, there is no distinction between the judicial and legislative branches. If a particular outcome is deemed desirable, a court should so rule - the law and constitution in question be damned. A good illustration of the mindset is on display in today's editorial in the Los Angeles Times, Setback for Marriage Justice , condemning recent state court decisions in New York and Georgia that declined to find a right to gay marriage. Naturally the LAT expresses the fond hope that California's high court will adopt "a more...

Religious conservatives, emboldened by President Bush's re-election and confident of their political clout, are not interested in merely overhauling the judiciary. Ideally, they are seeking a judiciary that would remove the wall of separation between church and state. This ambition is stated clearly in numerous legal briefs currently on file at the U.S. Supreme Court in connection with a pending case; they seek removal of "a Berlin wall" that is "out of step with this nation's religious heritage." In fact, their leaders argue in interviews that the church-state barrier is a "myth" invented by the high court in 1947, thanks...

A matter of life and death Posted: October 20, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com By the time you read this, Terri Schindler-Schiavo could well be dead – the victim of a court-ordered starvation plan. If you get your news primarily from the New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or FOX, you may not know who Terri Schindler-Schiavo is. The establishment press has treated her government-mandated torture-execution as if it had little news value. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, while speaking out on the case and offering a brief opposing the taking of Terri's life, now maintains his hands...