Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
“He went to the desert; he sat quietly. He sat so quietly that he heard the voice of God. He heard the truth. He felt the truth. He was able to receive the truth because he emptied himself and he had the ability to do it. Perhaps that was his specialness, or part of it.”
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
“Our number was 30. So, for example, Saddam Hussein. If you’re gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike against Saddam Hussein, that’s not a problem,” Garlasco explains. “But once you hit that number 30, we actually had to go to either President Bush, or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.”
From the mouth of Marc Garlasco, [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
Hat tip: Colonized Mind
Leslie Southwick was confirmed to fill a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last week. Southwick previously served as a judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals where authored two interesting opinions.
In 1998, Southwick joined a ruling in an employment case that upheld the reinstatement, without any [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by thestateofblog
The House Passed H.R. 1955. The bill now goes on to be voted on in the Senate.
The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn’t specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it [...]
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