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		<title>By: CurmudgyOne</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CurmudgyOne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s just a shame that, when so many voices were warning back in 2008 that this kind of thing would happen, nobody listened. &quot;Not here,&quot; they all thought and said. Well, guess what? Complacency, normalcy bias, lack of awareness … call it what you will, but it is the so-called &quot;leadership&quot; that has put us in this mess. We really do need to &quot;clean the swamp&quot; this time.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s just a shame that, when so many voices were warning back in 2008 that this kind of thing would happen, nobody listened. &#8220;Not here,&#8221; they all thought and said. Well, guess what? Complacency, normalcy bias, lack of awareness … call it what you will, but it is the so-called &#8220;leadership&#8221; that has put us in this mess. We really do need to &#8220;clean the swamp&#8221; this time.</p>
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		<title>By: MLCBLOG</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MLCBLOG]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 05:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To answer your question, No.  We have never seen anything like it, and it is very alarming.   Not since perhaps FD Roosevelt have we seen such usurpation of power and disregard for the Constitution and our way of govt.  Shocking.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To answer your question, No.  We have never seen anything like it, and it is very alarming.   Not since perhaps FD Roosevelt have we seen such usurpation of power and disregard for the Constitution and our way of govt.  Shocking.</p>
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		<title>By: dodger4754</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abolish the lawless IRS…tell your representatives to pass the Fairtax which will repeal the 16th Amendment. For more information: fairtax.org]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Abolish the lawless IRS…tell your representatives to pass the Fairtax which will repeal the 16th Amendment. For more information: fairtax.org</p>
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		<title>By: tea drinker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tea drinker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So sick of Obama, he need to be in jail, along with all his followers, his monkey of a wife and by the way screw the IRS, I will roll up my return and shove it up their a##!  Seem mean? He is a dictator, its time for us to fight fire with fire]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So sick of Obama, he need to be in jail, along with all his followers, his monkey of a wife and by the way screw the IRS, I will roll up my return and shove it up their a##!  Seem mean? He is a dictator, its time for us to fight fire with fire</p>
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		<title>By: antioli</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[antioli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the IRS attacking any of the so called &quot;Moderate Republican Tax exempts&quot;?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is the IRS attacking any of the so called &#8220;Moderate Republican Tax exempts&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2) &quot;Enemy combatant&quot; is a very old term, as is &quot;unlawful combatant&quot;.  They were not the inventions of G. W. Bush.  Awlaki is both - an enemy combatant, engaged in acts of war against the U.S., and unlawful to boot.

3) Islamic terrorists are technically stateless.  We are at war with them wherever they may be found.  This war is both actual, in the sense that it&#039;s taking place, and legal, since the AUMF is still the law of the land.

6) Yes of course the government can kill enemy combatants in a foreign battlefield in wartime!  To make this clear, consider the case of the American citizen who joins the German Wehrmacht in World War II.  President Roosevelt orders my unit (I&#039;m a private in a U.S. Army Company) to attack the German unit in which this American serves, located in France.  Is the President&#039;s order legal, even though we&#039;re not at war with France?  Of course it is!  On the battlefield, I see this American wearing a German uniform (of course I have no idea who he is) and I shoot him dead.  Is my killing of this American without a trial legal?  Yes, of course it is!  

I think there&#039;s a lot of confusion on these points because our enemy does not belong to one nation and does not wear a uniform.  This latter makes him &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; susceptible to summary actions, not less, as unlawful combatants are not even entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, which in any case do not protect them from being shot on sight.

Notice that Obama has not ordered &quot;assassinations&quot; of American citizens on American soil, although I believe he would dearly love to do so.  He has stomped on the Constitution in all kinds of ways, but killing enemy terrorists overseas is not one of them.

Certain civil libertarian types seem to have a strange blind spot about Islamic terrorism.  Like it or not, we&#039;re at war with these people, and war is a matter of actualities, not theoretical niceties.  They&#039;re trying to kill us here, and we have every right to kill them over there.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2) &#8220;Enemy combatant&#8221; is a very old term, as is &#8220;unlawful combatant&#8221;.  They were not the inventions of G. W. Bush.  Awlaki is both &#8211; an enemy combatant, engaged in acts of war against the U.S., and unlawful to boot.</p>
<p>3) Islamic terrorists are technically stateless.  We are at war with them wherever they may be found.  This war is both actual, in the sense that it&#8217;s taking place, and legal, since the AUMF is still the law of the land.</p>
<p>6) Yes of course the government can kill enemy combatants in a foreign battlefield in wartime!  To make this clear, consider the case of the American citizen who joins the German Wehrmacht in World War II.  President Roosevelt orders my unit (I&#8217;m a private in a U.S. Army Company) to attack the German unit in which this American serves, located in France.  Is the President&#8217;s order legal, even though we&#8217;re not at war with France?  Of course it is!  On the battlefield, I see this American wearing a German uniform (of course I have no idea who he is) and I shoot him dead.  Is my killing of this American without a trial legal?  Yes, of course it is!  </p>
<p>I think there&#8217;s a lot of confusion on these points because our enemy does not belong to one nation and does not wear a uniform.  This latter makes him <i>more</i> susceptible to summary actions, not less, as unlawful combatants are not even entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, which in any case do not protect them from being shot on sight.</p>
<p>Notice that Obama has not ordered &#8220;assassinations&#8221; of American citizens on American soil, although I believe he would dearly love to do so.  He has stomped on the Constitution in all kinds of ways, but killing enemy terrorists overseas is not one of them.</p>
<p>Certain civil libertarian types seem to have a strange blind spot about Islamic terrorism.  Like it or not, we&#8217;re at war with these people, and war is a matter of actualities, not theoretical niceties.  They&#8217;re trying to kill us here, and we have every right to kill them over there.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lamestream media has done all it can to bury the IRS scandal, which should be front-page news every day until all the culprits are identified, removed from government, and possibly prosecuted depending on what the law allows.  Note the Left line is now that they didn&#039;t do anything wrong, despite Obama&#039;s and Lerner&#039;s previous admissions to the contrary, the IG report, testimony of senior IRS officials, and now a &quot;smoking gun&quot; memo making clear the intent to harass existed long ago.

The story is real.  If you can&#039;t see it, it&#039;s because you don&#039;t want to.  You think we Conservatives should be muzzled by force, and you might at least have the honesty to admit it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The lamestream media has done all it can to bury the IRS scandal, which should be front-page news every day until all the culprits are identified, removed from government, and possibly prosecuted depending on what the law allows.  Note the Left line is now that they didn&#8217;t do anything wrong, despite Obama&#8217;s and Lerner&#8217;s previous admissions to the contrary, the IG report, testimony of senior IRS officials, and now a &#8220;smoking gun&#8221; memo making clear the intent to harass existed long ago.</p>
<p>The story is real.  If you can&#8217;t see it, it&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t want to.  You think we Conservatives should be muzzled by force, and you might at least have the honesty to admit it.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Bob Dog Wan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Bob Dog Wan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where are the four boxes of freedom when you need them.  Americans, be they R&#039;s, D&#039;s, I&#039;s or TPer&#039;s will never be out from under the thumb of the government until the IRS and the political process is changed, that is term limits are in place and enforced.  If the political proponents what to do the right thing, they&#039;d be beating the drum for term limits and major Tax code revisions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where are the four boxes of freedom when you need them.  Americans, be they R&#8217;s, D&#8217;s, I&#8217;s or TPer&#8217;s will never be out from under the thumb of the government until the IRS and the political process is changed, that is term limits are in place and enforced.  If the political proponents what to do the right thing, they&#8217;d be beating the drum for term limits and major Tax code revisions.</p>
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		<title>By: vladimirval</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vladimirval]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The establishment GOP is not the solution, it is part of the problem.  For decades they have stood by while the government grew to a unmanageable proportion,  necessitating more and more government control and intrusion into our lives.  And often they contributed to the fundamental changes to our Republic.  If the current GOP leadership does not take a patriotic stand or is replaced, America will end up as a European Style Socialist state at best or a totalitarian dictatorship at worst.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The establishment GOP is not the solution, it is part of the problem.  For decades they have stood by while the government grew to a unmanageable proportion,  necessitating more and more government control and intrusion into our lives.  And often they contributed to the fundamental changes to our Republic.  If the current GOP leadership does not take a patriotic stand or is replaced, America will end up as a European Style Socialist state at best or a totalitarian dictatorship at worst.</p>
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		<title>By: Berceuse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Berceuse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 01:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I respectfully disagree.  Key points:


1) Yes, the government&#039;s authorities are limited offshore...but our Constitutional rights are not.


2) The &quot;enemy combatant&quot; designation was created in the post-9/11 fervor.  Nowhere in the Constitution is the government authorized to deprive a citizen of his inalienable rights except by due process.


3) Awlaki was killed in Yemen, a nation with which we were not at war.  No one had the right to assassinate him.  This includes the low-level private you described.  In fact, except in a time of direct hostilities, a soldier is permitted to kill no one, foreign or otherwise, much less a fellow citizen.


4) Of course, had Awlaki constituted an immediate threat at a time of hostilities, military or law enforcement action would have been justified.  None of those conditions existed.


5) The country is not at war.


6) Even if we were at war, the argument that the government can kill citizens because they are deemed (by whom?  Why, the government, of course!) to be enemy combatants is deeply flawed.  It allows the government to kill anyone anywhere without a trial, arrest or even a warrant.  What difference would it make if the target were in Yemen or France or Kansas?


Therefore, to me, a president who draws up a secret hit list of U.S. citizens who have not only not been convicted of a crime but not even charged...then orders their execution, one by one, without judicial oversight as they sit quietly in their homes in non-combat areas...


...Yeah, that&#039;s an impeachable crime.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I respectfully disagree.  Key points:</p>
<p>1) Yes, the government&#8217;s authorities are limited offshore&#8230;but our Constitutional rights are not.</p>
<p>2) The &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221; designation was created in the post-9/11 fervor.  Nowhere in the Constitution is the government authorized to deprive a citizen of his inalienable rights except by due process.</p>
<p>3) Awlaki was killed in Yemen, a nation with which we were not at war.  No one had the right to assassinate him.  This includes the low-level private you described.  In fact, except in a time of direct hostilities, a soldier is permitted to kill no one, foreign or otherwise, much less a fellow citizen.</p>
<p>4) Of course, had Awlaki constituted an immediate threat at a time of hostilities, military or law enforcement action would have been justified.  None of those conditions existed.</p>
<p>5) The country is not at war.</p>
<p>6) Even if we were at war, the argument that the government can kill citizens because they are deemed (by whom?  Why, the government, of course!) to be enemy combatants is deeply flawed.  It allows the government to kill anyone anywhere without a trial, arrest or even a warrant.  What difference would it make if the target were in Yemen or France or Kansas?</p>
<p>Therefore, to me, a president who draws up a secret hit list of U.S. citizens who have not only not been convicted of a crime but not even charged&#8230;then orders their execution, one by one, without judicial oversight as they sit quietly in their homes in non-combat areas&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;Yeah, that&#8217;s an impeachable crime.</p>
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		<title>By: Les Nessman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Les Nessman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Lawenforcementization&quot; 



That &quot;word&quot; reminds me of one of the most misunderstood quotes in the history of the US.  In &#039;68, mayor Daley never said, &quot;There will be law and order in Chicago.&quot;  He was misquoted.  What he really said, was, &quot;There will be lawn order in chicago!&quot;  Meaning, people should mow their lawns once a week or more.  BTW, &#039;luudes are your friend, dude.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Lawenforcementization&#8221; </p>
<p>That &#8220;word&#8221; reminds me of one of the most misunderstood quotes in the history of the US.  In &#8217;68, mayor Daley never said, &#8220;There will be law and order in Chicago.&#8221;  He was misquoted.  What he really said, was, &#8220;There will be lawn order in chicago!&#8221;  Meaning, people should mow their lawns once a week or more.  BTW, &#8216;luudes are your friend, dude.</p>
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		<title>By: Les Nessman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Les Nessman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought the pharmaceutical companies quit manufacturing quaaludes a decade ago.  Guess I was wrong, or someone had a major stash built up.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought the pharmaceutical companies quit manufacturing quaaludes a decade ago.  Guess I was wrong, or someone had a major stash built up.</p>
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		<title>By: Berceuse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Berceuse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened exactly as I described it.  I can&#039;t prove, of course, that the assault from the IRS was connected to my email to Obama.  All I can do is note the remarkable coincidence.  Never been audited in my life, and now this.


But I&#039;m curious: All the confirmed news accounts of IRS harassment and other Obama Administration attacks against opponents, and you are skeptical of one more similar story?  I don&#039;t live far from the Gibson Guitar Company.  Why don&#039;t you drop by their shop and tell THEM you&#039;re skeptical?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It happened exactly as I described it.  I can&#8217;t prove, of course, that the assault from the IRS was connected to my email to Obama.  All I can do is note the remarkable coincidence.  Never been audited in my life, and now this.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m curious: All the confirmed news accounts of IRS harassment and other Obama Administration attacks against opponents, and you are skeptical of one more similar story?  I don&#8217;t live far from the Gibson Guitar Company.  Why don&#8217;t you drop by their shop and tell THEM you&#8217;re skeptical?</p>
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		<title>By: kikorikid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kikorikid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did I say anything about a deposition?
What you are doing is supporting the &quot;Lawenforcementization&quot; of Global Jihad.
They, Islamist, are at war with us, the West.
Jihadist do not recognize soviereign(sp) states,
only Shariah States. They are not transgressing,
intentionally anyway, criminal law . They are
commiting crimes against humanity when they
indiscriminately blow up a crowd of people. People who are non-combatants, innocents. In short,
you are naiive and are undermining efforts to
EFFECTIVELY&quot; deal with Jihadist outside
our borders. IF, any President starts dropping
Hellfires on ANYONE within the U.S.. Then
we stand together until then...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When did I say anything about a deposition?<br />
What you are doing is supporting the &#8220;Lawenforcementization&#8221; of Global Jihad.<br />
They, Islamist, are at war with us, the West.<br />
Jihadist do not recognize soviereign(sp) states,<br />
only Shariah States. They are not transgressing,<br />
intentionally anyway, criminal law . They are<br />
commiting crimes against humanity when they<br />
indiscriminately blow up a crowd of people. People who are non-combatants, innocents. In short,<br />
you are naiive and are undermining efforts to<br />
EFFECTIVELY&#8221; deal with Jihadist outside<br />
our borders. IF, any President starts dropping<br />
Hellfires on ANYONE within the U.S.. Then<br />
we stand together until then&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Boots</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Boots]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obvious answer is to incrementally start defunding the IRS.  House leadership should tell Mr Koskinen that until he reins in the political attacks by the IRS there will be no budget funding the IRS at current staffing levels and cuts of at least the size of the units conducting the harassment of citizens.  I&#039;m sure Mr Koskinen thinks he can rope a dope his way through this since Republican leadership is pretty feckless.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The obvious answer is to incrementally start defunding the IRS.  House leadership should tell Mr Koskinen that until he reins in the political attacks by the IRS there will be no budget funding the IRS at current staffing levels and cuts of at least the size of the units conducting the harassment of citizens.  I&#8217;m sure Mr Koskinen thinks he can rope a dope his way through this since Republican leadership is pretty feckless.</p>
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		<title>By: alan c</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[alan c]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They reported the IRS scandals. If fox won&#039;t peddle this story, it ain&#039;t real.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They reported the IRS scandals. If fox won&#8217;t peddle this story, it ain&#8217;t real.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s happening, all right.  There&#039;s no upheaval principally because the media refuses to report stories like this, believing its job to be to secure Barry&#039;s rightful rule over us rubes in flyover country.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s happening, all right.  There&#8217;s no upheaval principally because the media refuses to report stories like this, believing its job to be to secure Barry&#8217;s rightful rule over us rubes in flyover country.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/republican-leaders-fight-back-against-irs-power-grab/comment-page-1/#comment-5364048</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I appreciate your passion, but the fact is the authority of our civil courts and marshals &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; stop at the U. S. Territorial border:  outside U.S. territory, we can&#039;t arrest or try anyone.  Obama has done many terrible things, but in this case he acted within the scope of his authority as CINC.


This country is at war, and enemy combatants, whether lawful or unlawful, are legitimate targets.  Not only did Obama possess the authority to kill Awlaki, the lowest private soldier in the U.S. Army did so also!  By that I mean that if a U.S. soldier sights an enemy combatant, he is at liberty to raise his rifle and shoot him.  This is not an &quot;execution&quot; in the legal sense, it&#039;s merely a legitimate exercise of the war power.  And that will be so as long as the AUMF remains in affect.    



Awlaki was not subject to arrest, but he was located in a zone of combat, making his targeting perfectly legal.  Now had he been strolling down a street in Chicago&#039;s Hyde Park (Obama&#039;s neighborhood), that would have been another matter - he would have been subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts, and thus arrest rather than attack would have been the correct procedure.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I appreciate your passion, but the fact is the authority of our civil courts and marshals <i>do</i> stop at the U. S. Territorial border:  outside U.S. territory, we can&#8217;t arrest or try anyone.  Obama has done many terrible things, but in this case he acted within the scope of his authority as CINC.</p>
<p>This country is at war, and enemy combatants, whether lawful or unlawful, are legitimate targets.  Not only did Obama possess the authority to kill Awlaki, the lowest private soldier in the U.S. Army did so also!  By that I mean that if a U.S. soldier sights an enemy combatant, he is at liberty to raise his rifle and shoot him.  This is not an &#8220;execution&#8221; in the legal sense, it&#8217;s merely a legitimate exercise of the war power.  And that will be so as long as the AUMF remains in affect.    </p>
<p>Awlaki was not subject to arrest, but he was located in a zone of combat, making his targeting perfectly legal.  Now had he been strolling down a street in Chicago&#8217;s Hyde Park (Obama&#8217;s neighborhood), that would have been another matter &#8211; he would have been subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts, and thus arrest rather than attack would have been the correct procedure.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Republican &quot;leadership&quot; signed a letter to the IRS Commissioner.  Well, it&#039;s a start, but when it fails as of course it will, what are they going to do then?  Do they have the guts to refuse to fund the IRS unless the Democrats agree to a law revoking the IRS&#039;s regulations?  The Democrats would likely shut the government down; does the &quot;leadership&quot; have what it takes to fight and win?  I think we know the answer.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the Republican &#8220;leadership&#8221; signed a letter to the IRS Commissioner.  Well, it&#8217;s a start, but when it fails as of course it will, what are they going to do then?  Do they have the guts to refuse to fund the IRS unless the Democrats agree to a law revoking the IRS&#8217;s regulations?  The Democrats would likely shut the government down; does the &#8220;leadership&#8221; have what it takes to fight and win?  I think we know the answer.</p>
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		<title>By: alan c</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[alan c]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t believe your story. Unless you post this info publicly or get a local news station to verify this, I am highly suspicious.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t believe your story. Unless you post this info publicly or get a local news station to verify this, I am highly suspicious.</p>
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