As usual, Glenn Greenwald is right on the money:

When Obama was seeking the Democratic nomination, the Constitutional Law Scholar answered a questionnaire about executive power distributed by The Boston Globe‘s Charlie Savage, and this was one of his answers:

5. Does the Constitution permit a president to detain US citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants?

[Obama]: No. I reject the Bush Administration’s claim that the President has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain U.S. citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants.

So back then, Obama said the President lacks the power merely to detain U.S. citizens without charges. Now, as President, he claims the power to assassinate them without charges. Could even his hardest-core loyalists try to reconcile that with a straight face?

Candidates say the darndest things --

When in Mississippi -- butter-up the "base" like Mitt Romney did recently when he said:

"If the federal government were run more like here in Mississippi, the whole country would be a lot better off."

The locals loved it.

However, for every dollar its residents pay in federal taxes, they receive/spend $2.73 from various government programs.

Fox News -- The Pro-Life Network

Fox News Network continues participation in "pro-life" activism, according to NewsHound Priscilla, with contributor Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Conservative publication "The Weekly Standard" announced as a guest speaker at the National Right to Life's National Convention later this month.

Other Fox contributors have been featured at right-to-life functions, including Laura Ingraham,
and Judge Andrew Napolitano. Fox superstar Bill O'Reilly was awarded the Courage Award by Family Research Council (listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Father Jonathan Morris will be featured in a upcoming pro-life documentary.

Fox is the only major news network that allows and even encourages its personnel to participate in partisan political activities.

Whistleblowers? We Don't Need No Steenkin' Whistleblowers!

One of history's main whistleblowers, Daniel(Pentagon Papers) Ellsberg has stated, "All the crimes Nixon committed against me are now legal."

Nixon's dirty tricks teams burglarized the office of Ellsburg's psychiatrist looking for material with which to discredit him. They also installed unauthorized wire-taps, utilized the CIA to act against an American citizen and authorized a hit squad to incapacitate Ellsburg on the steps of the Capitol building on May 3, 1971.
"But under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, with the PATRIOT Act, the FISA Amendment Act, and (for the hit squad) President Obama's executive orders. (These acts) have all become legal."


Ellsburg, a former military analyst who worked as a civilian for the Pentagon, noted that Obama has tried to use the Espionage Act to silence whistleblowers -- as did Nixon.

Seriously? Michele Bachmann?

NBC News blog "First Read" offers First Thoughts: Five reasons to take Bachmann seriously.

Are they serious? One has to wonder where the author's tounge was firmly planted when typing this.

1) she’s running, 2) she’ll raise lots of money, 3) she’ll stand out at the debates, 4) she could be the only female in the field, and 5) she can fill the Tea Party void

They left out a few, so let me help out:

6.) She's breathing, 7.) The certain sex scandal to arise will have a new twist -- female fooling around, 8.) Late night show comedians will never run out of materials, 9.) Aww, it's too easy and the list will go on forever.

I'll Bet They Still Claim "We Support Our Troops!"

Delta charges returning soldiers for extra bags

By JOAN LOWY and KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Joan Lowy And Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press – 38 mins ago

WASHINGTON – U.S. soldiers returning from Afghanistan posted a YouTube video complaining that they had to pay Delta Air Lines $2,800 out of pocket to check extra bags, prompting an onslaught of online comments critical of Delta and at least one boycott effort

It Wasn't The Torture, Stupid!

Even John McCain says so.

Surprise! Bush didn’t want to get bin Laden

According to former Colin Powell Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson that is --

Get the details at Raw Replay.