6-19-2010: In the News

As usual there’s too much going on right now to sufficiently blog about all of it, here’s some links:

Ten Stories In The News That The BP Oil Spill Is Overshadowing , Prison Planet

H.R.5175 – DISCLOSE Act, Open Congress

DISCLOSing Contempt for Liberty and the Constitution, The Heritage Foundation

Obama Admin Keeping Blackwater Armed and Dangerous in Afghanistan, The Nation

Gold sets another record amid recovery uncertainty, SF Gate

Sincerely Yours: Another Legal Triumph for the Obama-Yoo Administration, Empire Burlesque

“Obama bade his legal henchmen — his own personal John Yoos, as it were — to tell the Supreme Court that it should kill the Canadian citizen’s case seeking compensation for his unlawful arrest by U.S. officials, who then rendered him not unto Caesar but to the untender mercies of Syria’s torture cells. The Robed Ones agreed, dismissing, without comment, Arar’s appeal of a lower court ruling that quashed his case — a decision that Scott Horton rightly likened last year to the Dred Scott case, which upheld the legality of slavery, even in states which prohibited it.”

Ron Paul on Gulf Oil Spill: There Should Be No Limits On Liability

Armada of U.S. and Israeli Warships Head for Iran , Infowars