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President Joe Biden has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that the United States will provide a small number of long-range missiles to aid the war with Russia, three U.S. officials and a congressional official familiar with the discussions told NBC News on Friday. The officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, did not say when the missiles would be delivered or when a public announcement would be made. For months, Ukraine has asked for the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, which would give Kyiv the ability to strike targets from as far away as about 180...

Question: The Hawaiian Elections Clerk Who Supports Obama Said he Was Not Born In Hawaii And Is Foreign Born. Does It matter To You If Obama Were Born in Another Country? The Controversy surrounding Obama’s birth place is one that will not end until there are answers to the questions posed. ‘Birther’s led by Democrat Berg in PA have accused Barack Obama of his his real birth in Kenya. They maintain that Obama’s ‘released’ birth certificate is the electronic COLB (Certificate of Live Birth) which is give to those who do not have A long Form certificate which states the...

President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday. Hillary's nomination will be made in the face of the Constitutional prohibition in the Emoluments Clause (Article I, Section 6, clause 2): -------------------------------------------------------- No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time: and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during...

Do you think the "moment of silence" law for Illinois schools is unconstitutional? Yes 44.1% No 55.9% Total votes: 3282 Enforcing moment of silence blocked Lawyer: All school districts may be added to lawsuit By CARLA JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published Friday, November 16, 2007 CHICAGO - An atheist talk show host's attorney said Thursday he may try to add all Illinois school districts as defendants in a lawsuit challenging a mandatory moment of silence in classrooms. Suing all 871 districts may be the best way to get a clear answer about the new state law's constitutionality, attorney Gregory Kulis...

On January 16, the Constitutional Commission of the Estonian Parliament sent for the first parliamentary reading a bill on the ratification of the European Constitution. The commissioners propose adopting the bill in the first reading on February 8, the press service of the Riigikogu informs REGNUM. Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet says that the European Constitution is useful for the country and there are no reasons for not considering or ratifying it. Today moods in Europe are quite different from what they were a year before, when France and the Netherlands rejected the Constitution. To remind, supporting the bill in...

For the two Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for re-election this year, the foe is public perception, not a candidate of the opposition party. Justices Russell M. Nigro and Sandra Schultz Newman are fighting for new 10-year terms because of rising anger toward the court, stirred largely by a pay raise that state lawmakers gave themselves in the middle of the night last summer. (snip) "There is a serious disconnect in Pennsylvania between our elected officials" and the people, said Russ Diamond, chairman of PACleanSweep, a political action committee committed to ousting every incumbent in the Legislature. Citizen activists and...

The seismic rejection of the EU Constitution by the French and Dutch peoples in their recent referendums has shown clearly that the EU's 'one-size-fits-all' model - whereby laws are made in Brussels and then imposed on 25 diverse countries regardless of what their voters want - is no longer viable. The diversity of the reasons for opposing the Constitution in these two countries and beyond has shown that different European peoples demand very different priorities from those who govern them. Crucially, the idea that more and more law-making powers should be concentrated in the hands of EU officials who cannot...

Rise of the Fourth Reich - The European Union Posted on Monday, June 27, 2005 by richard The Nazi’s are nearly winning. Don’t believe me? One parliament, flag, anthem, court, all for a single Federal State of Europe. That is what the Nazi state was, a Federal State of individual german states. So as a citizen of the UK, I am very happy I live here in the US, but still worried for my fellow Englishmen. The European Union’s laws mean that any state joining it must give their sovereignty up, betraying their citizens, deceiving them, to become a member...

Spain has become the seventh country to ratify the new European constitution. The Senate approved the document by an overwhelming majority, following a similar vote in the lower house and a Yes vote in a public referendum. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the treaty laid the ground for a more democratic EU that was closer to its citizens. The constitution faces its biggest hurdle when France holds a referendum on 29 May. Latest polls give No voters a slight lead. The constitution needs the approval of all 25 EU member states, by referendum or act of parliament,...

NANCY, France (AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland formed a united front in defense of the EU constitution, just 10 days before the French vote on the treaty in a crucial referendum. ADVERTISEMENT French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski -- meeting in Nancy in eastern France -- also demanded that the British rebate on the EU budget be reviewed. But France's May 29 referendum on the EU constitution was the focus of the day, and Chirac, who has staked his personal prestige on approval of the treaty, said all...

NANCY, France - The leaders of Poland and Germany joined France's president on Thursday in imploring the French to vote for the EU constitution in their May 29 referendum. ADVERTISEMENT German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said all nations in the bloc needed to pitch in to develop the European Union, but he added at a news conference of the three heads of state: "We especially need France." Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said Poland's first year in the European Union has been a success story that needs to continue. "I wish for myself, for France and for all of us, that this...

In their own words, the founders of the Fourth Reich tell us what they think and plan. Scary stuff when you think of the resources these guys now have. Wait till the power is totally in their hands and all of Europe is under their heel, then you'll see an end to the short work week and a massive remiliterization. JB6 "The Federated Republic of Europe - the United States of Europe - that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups,...

PARIS (AFX) - A new poll has found that 52 pct of decided French voters say they intend to vote 'yes' to the new EU constitution on May 29, when France holds its referendum on whether or not to approve the new treaty. The TNS-Sofres/Unilog poll for Le Monde newspaper and French news channel LCI indicated that 27 pct of those surveyed have still not made up their minds. It was the third poll in a row carried out by the institute to show supporters of the EU constitution in front, following several weeks of polls that found the 'no'...

Greece has completed its ratification of the European Union constitution after an opposition bid to hold a public referendum failed. MPs overwhelmingly backed the treaty by 268 votes to 17 last month, but opposition leaders said a referendum would raise public awareness. The motion failed and Greece joins Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Lithuania and Slovenia in completing ratification. So far, only Spain has backed the constitution with a referendum. It then passed again in a vote in the Spanish lower house of parliament and is due before the upper house later this month. French vote The text, signed by EU leaders...

German MPs voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve the new EU constitution in a move designed to boost the faltering yes campaign in France, which faces a knife-edge referendum at the end of the month. Germany's Bundestag, or lower house of parliament, passed the constitution with a convincing majority of 569 out of 594 votes. But some 23 rebel MPs, most of them from Germany's two conservative opposition parties, defied their own leaders and voted against. Two MPs abstained. Article continues -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bundesrat, or upper house, is expected to complete ratification with a vote on May 27, two days...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German parliament will ratify the EU constitution next month, a government spokesman said on Monday, dismissing both a legal challenge and the prospect of a clash with the federal states over the issue. "For me there is no question that the Bundestag (lower house) will decide on May 12," government spokesman Thomas Steg told a regular news conference. "I expect...as the state premiers clearly told the Chancellor in December, that the Bundesrat (upper house) will decide on May 27," he said. Unlike France, Germany has decided not to hold a referendum on the European Union constitution,...

PARIS, March 14 (AFP) - France's opposition Socialist party (PS) was struggling to contain a bitter internal row Monday after a senior left-winger compared the leadership's support for the proposed EU constitution with the vote that set up the collaborationist Vichy regime in World War II. Henri Emmanuelli, who heads a minority party faction calling for a "no" vote in the May 29 referendum on the constitution, was widely condemned for breaking a political taboo when he made his remarks on a local radio station over the week-end. "A majority of Socialists voted full powers to Laval in 1940. Those...

The US Constitution has its amendments - the EU constitutional treaty has a number of annexes. This is annex number 7, concerning priviliges and immunities of civil servants working for the EU. I know - it is not a riveting read, but don't miss Article 11 (a) - or why not read the whole article 11. ------------------------- 7. PROTOCOL ON THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, CONSIDERING that, in accordance with Article III-434 of the Constitution, the Union shall enjoy in the territories of the Member States such privileges and immunities as are necessary...

Congress Sends $800 Billion Debt Limit Increase To Bush Same story November 19, 2004 CAPITOL HILL -- A bill raising the federal borrowing limit by $800 billion is on its way to President George W. Bush's desk . . . the debt limit bill will pump up the federal borrowing cap to $8.18 trillion. That is 70 percent the size of the entire U.S. economy, and more than $2.4 trillion higher than the debt Bush inherited upon taking office in 2001. To get a handle on the size of the real national debt, see: Measuring the Federal Government's Unfunded Liability...