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The illegal immigration issue is still on the forefront of the blogosphere and the American media. Every time I think the matter of immigration has been so thoroughly discussed to the point where the same issues are being discussed over and over again, someone posts an article that demands recognition. Such is the case with John Hawkin’s post in Right Wing News. In it John discusses 13 of the most asked questions on illegal immigration. In the post, John debunks many of the myths commonly expounded in the MSM. It is worth reading.

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There has been a major setback to the same-sex marriage agenda according to Fox News.  The activist judges of the Massachusetts Supreme Court made same-sex marriages legal three years ago.  Then the jurists gave the legislature of that state not nearly enough time to deal with the issue.  Liberals and gays alike celebrated this decision.  Gays wishing to get married flocked to the state to receive their marriage licenses.  Apparently the celebration started too soon.

The Supreme Judicial Court, which three years ago made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage, upheld a 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state.

Massachusetts is the only state that recognizes same-sex marriages.  Therefore all these ‘couples’ who went to the state to get married, waisted their time.  I am surprised the Massachusetts Supreme Court had the guts to take on this issue.  Either justices felt the critical public pressure (doubtful) or they realized the error of their ways (even more unlikely) or they put their political fingers in the wind and saw change coming.  Actually, I am surprised the Massachusetts Supreme Court had the guts to take on this issue.  One person who was celebrating the recent decision of the Court was Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

“We don’t want Massachusetts to become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage,” Romney said. “It’s important that other states have the right to make their own determination of marriage and not follow the wrong course that our Supreme Judicial Court put us on.”

One step in the right direction for a man with presidential ambitions, and of course, well said.

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Jill Carroll, a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, was released today after being kidnapped nearly three months ago. The New York Times among others wanted Carroll to do an interview. She took the time to make a statement and answer a few questions for the press. Some of the things Ms. Carroll had to say were very telling.

Ms. Carroll said she had been unharmed by her captors. “I was treated very well, it’s important people know that,” she said emphatically. She added, “They never threatened me in any way.”

Then further on in the story:

She was well fed by her captors and was permitted to take showers and go to the bathroom whenever she wanted. She was able to watch television and see a newspaper only once.

Okay. So I guess now Carroll is going to praise her captors because she was treated well and was never threatened. Lets forget the fact that her translator and driver were killed during her abduction. Just the kind of people I want to kidnap me; kill whoever is with me, threat to kill me (not to me but to the television audience). They are terrorists who use terror (or try to) to achieve their means. These kidnappers are not the good guys the media is portraying them to be.

Fox News covered her release as well. One comment Carroll made to a question, apparently concerning if she was free to take a shower, change clothes, read a newspaper and watch tv, then why didn’t she leave. This renown journalist had a very cryptic answer. Her answer was, “I did not feel like I was free.” Either you are free or you are not. If I were taken captive, I would definitely be able to tell if I were free or not. I may be completely wrong in this assumption, but the way Carroll says, I did not feel like I was free,” almost sounds like she did not want to leave. Like I said, I may be misreading this whole statement. Maybe it was the shock at being released, or all the lights and questions during the interview, or maybe it was something else… Who knows?

Curious-er and curious-er.

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The MSM has been caught with their pants down once again. I detailed in a post yesterday how the MSM and specifically the NYT was misleading their readers with a very biased story of how Big Oil is getting rich with the help of Republicans in Congress. Now it has happened again. The once estemed Gray Lady, the New York Times, is at it again. The so-called newspaper of record can not even cover a senate hearing without screwing up the facts. I don’t know what hearing Eric Lichtbau was coving but it could not have been this one. The gist of the New York Times article can be summed up in this one statement by FISA Judge Harold Baker.

Judge Harold A. Baker, a sitting federal judge in Illinois who served on the intelligence court until last year, said the president was bound by the law “like everyone else.” If a law like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is duly enacted by Congress and considered constitutional, Judge Baker said, “the president ignores it at the president’s peril.”

Of course that was not all he said, but to cover more of what the judge had said would have undermined his story. Can’t let a few facts interfere with your agenda, now can you.

If the story had been covered correctly, the NYT would have had this statement in its story.  Judge Stafford, one of the FISA judges at the hearing sums up what all the judges said with this statement.

Judge Stafford: Everyone is bound by the law, but I do not believe, with all due respect, that even an act of Congress can limit the President’s power under the Necessary and Proper Clause under the Constitution.

Another quote not in the NYT article was this one byArlen Specter who manages to sum up the entire hearing with one sentence.

Chairman Specter: I think the thrust of what you are saying is the President is bound by statute like everyone else unless it impinges on his constitutional authority, and a statute cannot take away the President’s constitutional authority. Anybody disagree with that?

Sometimes I am really happy with Arlen Specter and sometimes I am very disappointed with him. The Senator did a good job of boiling down the hearings. John over at Powerline took a look at the transcripts of the hearing. Here are more facts and some of his conclusions.

Hat tip to Powerline.

Tags: Bias by Chuck
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