The Hall of Fire

Well, that's convenient. What precisely do you mean by that Voronwë? Here's an example: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/319801-peter-king-obama-abdicating-responsibility-as-commander-in-chief So, do you agree with Rep. King that President Obama was abdicating his responsibility as commander in ch...

No, the SCOTUS has not said that. You may be thinking of Doe v. Bush, a case in which members of the military and some liberal Congress members sued in order to prevent the Iraq war. The Court of Appeal ruled that Congress had not abdicated its power to declare war by giving the president authority...

Congress has not issued a formal declaration of war since WWII. This is historic fact. Presidents have since gone to Congress to get funds released and a political seal of approval but Congress itself has not declared war. If I am not mistaken, the AUMF is a declaration of war. There is no constitu...

The fact is, when the Constitution was written, it was Congress who had the power to declare war and/or issue letters of marque. Congress later abdicated that responsibility to such a degree that there has not been a Congressional Declaration of War since WWII. Every military action since has been ...

So you have, for some reason, completely accepted the talking points of the defense... That's odd, I think I provided some facts, which countered your assertions. Are any of the facts I provided wrong (such as your statement that Zimmerman was ordered by police to walk away was wrong)? An ARMED man...

Tell me in all seriousness: If an armed black man followed and shot an unarmed white 17-year old, on a dubious suspicion, and after being ordered by police officers to walk away, A civilian dispatcher, not police officers. It was not an order. Even if it were an order the civilian dispatcher has no...

And why, as Perry of all people has already pointed out, Romney originall wrote in his book that the Massachusetts plan would be good nationwide, and then took that out when the book was re-released this year in paperback. Not quite: The key sentence that Perry focuses on in his ad is this one, whi...

BTW, I don't think you're going to convince anyone here of anything using the first page of a Google search, especially one that has Fox News as the first hit, Breitbart in the middle, and China Daily at the bottom. It's like a triple-decker club sandwich of lies, propaganda and evil. I leave it to...

And even that was tenuous at best, given that some of the 60 were (and are) quite conservative. Your facts about the size of the stimulus are inaccurate, but I don't have the time right now to dig up the true facts. ??? The cost of the stimulus was $787 billion dollars (as initially scored by the C...

Given that his previous conciliatory efforts at Grand Bargains have still gotten nowhere, I'm glad to see him instead proposing what a Democrat ought to be proposing. Chasing the bipartisanship butterfly got us less than was needed on the stimulus and health reform, and it's now clear that even tho...

Okay, if you can wade through the bias of this blog (which the author freely admits), I am actually curious if someone can point me to another source or two that supports this author's statements about Breivik's (and McVeigh's) views--specifically that they are not claiming to be Christians. http:/...

No it's just the rumour from unamed placed sources.

Meanwhile: Gingrich presidential campaign implodes Not surprising. For someone so incredibly smart, his mouth sometimes goes off before his logical brain process sets in... Heh, maybe thats not so surprising either. I would have loved watching him and Obama debate however. There is some rumour that...

Okay, first of all, when conservatives prattle on about economic stability what they're really talking about is making the rich richer at the expense of the poor and the middle class. Look what's happened to the US middle class over the past 30 years or so. That whole thing about the wealth trickli...

Muslim circumsize their sons as well. I wonder if the person who made the comic would have ever dared use an image of a muslim in that same manner.

What does the CDC know that we don't?:

Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
The following was originally posted on CDC Public Health Matters Blog May 16th, 2011 by Ali S. Khan.

http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp

Here's a brief explanation of international criminal law and immunities, with the disclaimer that this assessment of international law is worth every penny that you paid for it and no more. ;) So you are saying it is worth as much as I paid for my computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse, modem and th...

To help finance government spending, the Administration is going to borrow money from the retirement funds for federal workers: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/treasury-to-tap-pensions-to-help-fund-government/2011/05/15/AF2fqK4G_story.html?hpid=z1 I seem to recall that a big company g...

Obama's new plan: 'Drill baby drill' : Obama to open Alaska petroleum reserve to new drilling The broad energy plan, coming as gas prices continue to rise, would also fast-track environmental assessment of petroleum exploration elsewhere. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-al...

And I say Bin Laden in order to avoid accidentally saying Obama. ;) @Infidel: Bin Laden's history with the CIA remains under dispute so it is not entirely fair to call it a meme as that implies the idea's only merit rests on how often it has been repeated. That is its only merit, since there is no ...