Angry Gay Soldier Bradley Manning Officially Charged With Leaking Intellignce To Assist Enemy

The case of Bradley Manning is something conservatives need to rally around if they want to defeat Barack Obama in November. Manning, a gay activist and soldier angry that his chosen, abnormal and deviant lifestyle of homosexuality was suppressed under the old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law (signed by former-Democrat President Bill Clinton), chose to betray his country, assist our enemies and risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of military personnel (as well as their friends and families) by providing classified documents to Julian Assange's Wikileaks website. Obama, an "evolving" supporter of the homosexual lifestyle as well as gay marriage, made repealing DADT a top priority in his agenda, but has said little about Wikileaks, much less acknowledged the threats we face because of Manning's criminal actions--probably because he's too afraid of pissing off his mostly-white, immoral, liberal base that has openly supported Manning. In other words it's not too hard to connect the dots here:

Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army soldier accused in the biggest leak of intelligence documents in the military's history, was formally charged Thursday.


Aiding the enemy is a capital offense, but prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty. If convicted on all the charges, Manning will likely face life in prison. The 24-year-old is suspected of giving hundreds of thousands of secret documents to the WikiLeaks website.He was arraigned Thursday at Fort Meade, Maryland, before military judge Col. Denise Lind, marking the beginning of the court-martial process.


Manning, who sat in his dress uniform with his hands clasped throughout the arraignment, deferred pleading guilty or not guilty to the charges until a later date. He can enter a plea any time before the start of the trial.


The charges against him include aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, transmitting national defense information and theft of public property or records.


Manning's counsel also deferred choosing how the case will be tried. In a military court-martial, there are three options from which the defendant can choose - trial by a military judge, trial by a panel of senior officers or trial by a panel that includes one-third of enlisted noncommissioned officers.


Holding off on entering a plea and choosing a forum for the trial could be part of the defense's overall strategy, according to Capt. John Haberland, a legal spokesman for U.S. Army Military District of Washington.


The defense could be waiting to see the outcome of various motions, Haberland said.


Motions were submitted at the arraignment, mostly dealing with information gathering for the defense, Haberland said. A hearing is set for March 15 and 16, where it is expected the defense and prosecution will be able to argue their motions.


A trial start date has not been set. The prosecution asked for the trial to begin August 3, but the defense would like the trial to begin no later than June.


If the prosecution gets its way, Manning would be in "pretrial confinement for over 800 days before the trial begins," said Manning's civilian attorney, David Coombs, arguing for a speedy trail.

Defiant Chris Christie Pwnes Far-Left Gay Liberal Jonathan Capehart On Same Sex Marriage Veto

Mediaite.com:

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was seemingly surprised — at least at first — when plucky Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart appeared on Morning Joe and held his feet to the fire over his decision to veto same-sex marriage, or, as Capehart saw it, putting civil rights up for a referendum.


“Governor Christie, I heard you say that you have your feet firmly planted next to President Obama on this issue, but the key difference between you and the President is while you support putting the civil rights of that minority up for a public referendum, the President is not in favor of that.”


Co-host Mika Brzezinski had noticed Capehart — who was a guest on Willie Geist‘s show earlier, and had just been hanging around on set — looked keen to weigh in and had him put on a mic, as a flabbergasted Christie turned around in surprise.


“Has he said that, Jonathan?” Christie shot back. “Jonathan, has he said that? I haven’t heard him say that…he’s silent on the issue, like he’s silent on every issue that’s difficult for him.”


“He’s not silent on this,” countered Capehart. “Governor Christie, he is not! The president and the Justice Department have made it clear that they believe the so-called Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. They’re not supporting it in the court cases going through the Federal court system. As President of the United States, would you support that?”


Christie then became agitated by Capehart’s questioning.


“Hold on, hold on! Jonathan, first of all, I used to be a prosecutor!” snapped Christie. “I’m not going to be cross-examined by you this morning.”


“I’m having fun trying!” exclaimed Capehart.


“And you’re going to lose,” sharply replied Christie. “So let’s just move on.”


“I would love for you to answer the question,” pressed Capehart.


“Here’s the answer to the question,” Christie said. “Let’s have the President of the United States show some courage, come on this program, look into the camera like I’m looking into the camera, and state his position. He won’t because he wants to have it both ways. I’m not looking to have it both ways. I vetoed the bill. That’s my position.” Christie added that he offered to the supporters of the bill this: that if their argument that most of New Jersey wants same-sex marriage, then they can prove it at the ballot box. “At least I’m standing up to what I believe in,” Christie said. “The President has hidden on this issue, Jonathan! He opposes same sex marriage! The President opposes same sex marriage, Jonathan!”

Supreme Court: Miranda Rights Don’t Have To Be Read To Prisoners

A victory for anyone whose ever been a victim to a crime. And to think even Elena Kagan saw the common sense in this decision:

The Supreme Court said Tuesday investigators don’t have to read Miranda rights to inmates during jailhouse interrogations about crimes unrelated to their current incarceration.


The high court, on a 6-3 vote, overturned a federal appeals court decision throwing out prison inmate Randall Lee Fields’ conviction, saying Fields was not in “custody’’ as defined by Miranda and therefore did not have to have his rights read to him.


“Imprisonment alone is not enough to create a custodial situation within the meaning of Miranda,’’ Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court’s majority opinion.


Three justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, dissented and said the court’s decision would limit the rights of prisoners.


“Today, for people already in prison, the court finds it adequate for the police to say: `You are free to terminate this interrogation and return to your cell,’’’ Ginsburg said in her dissent. “Such a statement is no substitute for one ensuring that an individual is aware of his rights.’’


Miranda rights come from a 1966 decision that involved police questioning of Ernesto Miranda in a rape and kidnapping case in Phoenix. It required officers to tell suspects they have the right to remain silent and to have a lawyer represent them, even if they can’t afford one.


Previous court rulings have required Miranda warnings before police interrogations for people who are in custody, which is defined as when a reasonable person would think he cannot end the questioning and leave.


Fields was serving a 45-day sentence in prison on disorderly conduct charges when a jail guard and sheriff’s deputies from Lenawee County, Mich., removed him from his cell and took him to a conference room. The deputies, after telling him several times he was free to leave at any time, then questioned him for seven hours about allegations that he had sexually assaulted a minor. Fields eventually confessed and was charged and convicted of criminal sexual assault.


Fields was then sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison but appealed the use of his confession, saying that he was never given his Miranda rights on the sexual assault charges.


On appeal, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati threw out his confession and conviction, ruling that it is required that police read inmates their Miranda rights anytime they are isolated from the rest of the inmates in situations where they would be likely to incriminate themselves.


The Supreme Court overturned that ruling.


“Not all restraints on freedom of movement amount to custody for purposes of Miranda,’’ Alito said.

Michelle Obama Takes 16th Vacation Since Becoming First Lady

It's no secret to conservatives that no one has ever taken advantage of all the glitz, glamour and perks that come with residing in the White House like Barack and Michelle Obama have. Whether it's hosting lavish parties (on taxpayer money) for all their rich and leftist celebrity friends or taking unprecedented trips to upscale golf courses around the country or going on vacations to famous spots around the globe that the average American can only dream about, Barry and fam have taken to the term "living it up" to new levels since Obama's shocking election win in 2008. Of course, knowing that the liberal press will turn their nose on any Democratic president who spends a record amount of leisure time away from the daily rigors of the actual job he was elected to do only helps Barry and Co. get away with what would be considered "OUTRAGE" if it were say a Republican president and/or his First Lady conducting themselves in such a poor manner. But what the hey:

With the economy on its knees, many American families have had to forgo their annual holiday just to make ends meet.


But barely a month after returning from a luxury Christmas break in Hawaii Michelle Obama is on holiday again - this time at the exclusive Colorado ski resort of Aspen. It's her 16th holiday since her husband took office.


The First Lady Michelle Obama is spending Presidents' Day weekend in the upmarket resort with her daughters, Sasha and Malia, and was seen hitting the slopes - albeit apprehensively - on Saturday.


The Secret Service have been in town for the past few days looking for safe places for the family to relax.


Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo confirmed Mrs Obama arrived Friday afternoon, saying, 'it's a privilege to have the first lady here.' He told the Aspen Daily News he met with Secret Service officers and has placed seven of his deputies at the service of the First Family.


The holiday is not the first time the first girls have been on skis.


Their first attempt came in Feb 2010 when she took the girls to Liberty Mountain Resort, in Carroll Valley, Pa. just is 60 minutes from the White House.


And last year Mrs Obama took Sasha and Malia to Vail and Beaver Creek last Presidents' Day just days after the President tried to sell his cost-cutting budget to the American people by asking them to stay at home.


‘If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation,’ he said.


Once again while Mr Obama returned to the White House after a fundraising trip to West Coast, the rest of his family headed to Colorado – rather than visiting slopes closer to Washington in Virginia or Pennsylvania.


Their trip came despite previous criticisms over the family's extravagant vacations, including a trip last summer to Martha's Vineyeard where the family rented a farm estate for around $50,000 a week.

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Rick Santorum Questions Obama's Christian Values

I love that Santorum is attacking Barry for being what he is: a fake Christian who uses Christianity only when it's convenient. It's a road too many Republicans are afraid to go down (and understandably so considering the power of the liberal media and the huge amount of skeletons in conservative GOP'ers closets), but Santorum is fully aware that with most Americans voters not being liberal, it's a road he must travel in order to have a chance at beating Barry come November:

Lashing out on two fronts, Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama's Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney's Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, "ground zero" in the 2012 nomination fight.


Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator known for his social conservative views, said Obama's agenda is based on "some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology." He later suggested that the president practices a different kind of Christianity.


"In the Christian church there are a lot of different stripes of Christianity," he said. "If the president says he's a Christian, he's a Christian."


The Obama campaign said the comments represent "the latest low in a Republican primary campaign that has been fueled by distortions, ugliness, and searing pessimism and negativity."


Santorum was forced on his heels in recent days after a top supporter suggested women use aspirin to prevent pregnancy.


In Ohio, a Super Tuesday prize, he shifted decidedly to offense before friendly crowds. Trailing Romney in money and campaign resources, Santorum is depending on the tea party movement and religious groups to deliver a victory March 6 in the Midwestern contest.


More delegates will be awarded in Ohio than in any other state except Georgia in the opening months of the Republican campaign. Ohio and Georgia are two of the 10 contests scheduled for March 6, a benchmark for the primary campaign that often decides who can continue to the next level.


Santorum has surged in recent opinion polls after capturing Republican caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri on Feb. 7. Several polls have shown him ahead in Romney's native state of Michigan, where primary voters cast ballots a week from Tuesday.


Obama's campaign team has responded by starting to consider the possibility that Santorum rather than Romney could be the Republican nominee. The Chicago-based organization has begun scrutinizing Santorum's past record and asked its Pennsylvania allies to look for information that might be used against Santorum in future ads and speeches.


Even as he criticized Obama, Santorum also went after one of Romney's most promoted achievements — his leadership at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.


"One of Mitt Romney's greatest accomplishments, one of the things he talks about most is how he heroically showed up on the scene and bailed out and resolved the problems of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games," Santorum said. "He heroically bailed out the Salt Lake City Olympic Games by heroically going to Congress and asking them for tens of millions of dollars to bail out the Salt Lake games — in an earmark, in an earmark for the Salt Lake Olympic games."

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Lefty Ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer Bucks Liberal Orthodoxy, Says 'Citizens United Was Correct'

DailyCaller.com:

Friday on HBO during “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer broke with liberal tradition, saying the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was the right call.


Spitzer explained, as he has before, that the Court’s decision is consistent with with the First Amendment.


“Now, having said that, Bill, we rarely disagree. I am with the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] on this one. I think as a First Amendment principle, Citizens United was correct.”


He told Maher that there is no distinction between some shows on the airwaves — all owned by corporations — and a company’s participation in politics through paid advertising.


“Your show is owned by a corporation,” Spitzer said to Maher. “You have a First Amendment right. And so I don’t know how you distinguish between the New York Times editorial page, The Rachel Maddow Show, George [Stephanopoulos]‘s show — all owned by corporations.”


“The First Amendment,” he reminded Maher, says government “shall pass no law abridging the right of speech.”


“Doesn’t say by anybody. It says speech. I don’t care whose speech it is. The ACLU agrees with me, and Larry Lessig, great academic, on this. So this is a more textured issue. It has done horrific things to politics. But as a First Amendment issue, it’s a much more complicated issue.”

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