Marine Corps Sgt. Gary Stein was given an other-than-honorable discharge last week after posting comments on his Facebook page asserting that he would defy orders from President Barack Obama. Stein, a nine-year veteran who served in Iraq, will be stripped of most of his military benefits as a result. The controversy surrounding Stein began in [...]
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Marine gets the boot for criticizing Obama on Facebook
Posted in Censorship, Constitution, Free Speech, Uncategorized, War and Terror on May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Self-Proclaimed Constitutionalists Who Don’t Understand The Constitution
Posted in Bigotry, Conservatives, Constitution, Islamism, Media News, Politics, Religious Extremism, Republicans, Tea Party, War and Terror on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, at the dubiously named Values Voter Summit, former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich told an enraptured conservative crowd that America needed a new federal law banning Islamic sharia law from infiltrating the country’s judicial system. Of course, Gingrich seems oblivious to the fact that America already has such a law on [...]
Iran Releases American Woman Amid False Accusations and Insincere Gestures
Posted in Human Rights, Iran, Islamism, Media News, Politics, Religious Extremism, War and Terror on September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An American woman jailed in Iran for more than 400 days has returned to the United States this weekend. Sarah Shourd was one of three Americans arrested and imprisoned in 2009 for an alleged illegal crossing into Iran while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan. Shourd’s medical condition seems to have compelled her release, though Iranian authorities [...]
Pentagon Alarmed By Afghan War Memoir
Posted in Censorship, Free Speech, Media News, Press Freedom, War and Terror on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A civilian Defense Intelligence Agency officer’s memoir about his time in Afghanistan has been delayed by a Defense Department security review. The book is said to contain “classified” information, but some wonder whether the DoD isn’t trying to shut down publication because of potentially embarrassing revelations about the military’s handling of the war. The Pentagon [...]
The Would-Be Quran-Burning Pastor and the Media Who Loves Him
Posted in Bigotry, Free Speech, Islamism, Media News, News Entertainment, Politics, Religious Extremism, War and Terror on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The uproar stirred by Pastor Terry Jones’ plans to burn 200 copies of the Quran today as some Orwellian commemoration of 9/11 has proved three things to be true: 1) Jones, a previously unknown evangelist from Florida, has pulled off perhaps the single greatest publicity stunt in the modern history of the 24/7 news cycle. He [...]
