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I can’t believe I’m writing these words: Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III is going on trial – again.

Twice, Hutchins’ conviction by a military court martial for unpremeditated murder in Iraq has been overturned due to factors precluding a fair trial. That means that twice, following Hutchins’ initial conviction in 2007, he has been released from the brig a free man.

After his conviction was overturned the first time, there were eight months of freedom in 2010. Then, on the day his wife Reyna found out she was pregnant with their second child, Hutchins, a third-generation Marine, returned to prison. Last summer, the military’s highest appeals court overturned his conviction a second time. For the past six months, Hutchins has been living with Reyna and their two children, Kylie, 8, and Aidan, 2, while teaching marksmanship at Camp Pendleton. A new baby is on the way. Now, he – and they – must prepare for a new trial, his third. Why?

This twisting story with serial breaking points goes back to the night of April 26, 2006, somewhere in the Sunni Triangle west of Baghdad. Remember the Sunni Triangle? This was the pre-“surge” center of insurgent operations against our forces, who were daily coming under attack, usually by roadside bombs, or IEDs. They were also daily encountering the insurgents behind these IED attacks, capturing “high-value targets,” and then being ordered to set them free again. Sometimes there was insufficient “evidence” to hold them. Often, there was no jail space. Remember the bad old days of “catch and release”?

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2014/02/selling_out_israel_the_obama-kerry_plan.html Israel is being urged to give up major portions of the West Bank of the Jordan River to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).  That outfit is now known in Western media as the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it comprises the major terrorist group Fatah.  That’s the Arabic word for conquest.  And conquest of all of the land […]

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/it-s-not-just-weapons-it-s-iranian-constitution President Barack Obama’s current diplomatic effort with Iran is founded upon the hope that its new president, Hassan Rouhani, is in fact moderate and will agree to forfeit Iran’s goal of building nuclear weapons. Obama ought to have first revisited Iran’s most critical position paper — the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. […]

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Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process.

Two phenomena: anti-Semitism and American class conflict. Is there any connection between them? In a letter to this newspaper, the noted venture capitalist Tom Perkins called attention to certain parallels, as he saw them, between Nazi Germany’s war against the Jews and American progressives’ war on the “one percent.” For comparing two such historically disparate societies, Mr. Perkins was promptly and heatedly denounced.

But is there something to be said for his comparison—not of Germany and the United States, of course, but of the politics at work in the two situations? The place to begin is at the starting point: with the rise of anti-Semitism, modernity’s most successful and least understood political movement.

The German political activist Wilhelm Marr, originally a man of the left, organized a movement in the 1870s that charged Jews with using their skills “to conquer Germany from within.” Distinguishing the movement that he called anti-Semitism from earlier forms of anti-Judaism, Marr argued on professedly rational grounds that Jews were taking unfair advantage of the emerging democratic order in Europe, with its promise of individual rights and open competition, in order to dominate the fields of finance, culture and social ideas. Though some of Marr’s rhetoric and imagery was based on earlier stereotypes, he was right to insist that anti-Semitism was a new response to new conditions, channeling grievance and blame against highly visible beneficiaries of freedom and opportunity.

National Review Online, The Corner http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/02/pretending-tel-aviv-is-the-capital-of-israel Some, especially in the mainstream media, pretend that not Jerusalem but Tel Aviv serves as the capital of Israel. (Tel Aviv hosts the Ministry of Defense but not much else of the central government.) This parallels a tendency lately to pretend there’s a country called Palestine. The weblog entry […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4152/canada-cair-can-nccm “We will not take seriously criticism from an organization with documented ties to a terrorist organization such as Hamas.” — Jason MacDonald, spokesman for Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper According to extensive research done by an anti-terrorism expert in Canada, who has been following the patterns of CAIR-CAN/NCCM for over a decade, but who […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4156/jordan-kerry-proposal Kerry has managed to escalate tensions not only between Israel and the Palestinians, but also between Jordanians and the Palestinians inside Jordan. Kerry will now have to find a way to calm King Abdullah and his constituents before Jordan slips into civil war. “Jordan is playing host [to Palestinians] and no agreement can pass […]

http://www.jpost.com/Experts/Obama-treats-enemy-dictatorships-better-than-ally-Israel-340224?prmusr=Jc0hjbJGRHYeJkd8drrO3I0kEa%2fPK58JSnWqgpgdnYetpkdkrReDrFuZMeE84zjw   Israel is expected to do things neither the US nor its other allies would do.   Last week, it leaked that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, had privately described US Secretary of State John Kerry as “obsessive and messianic” in his quest to broker an Israeli/Palestinian peace settlement. The Obama Administration angrily rejected Ya’alon’s […]

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“January is here, with eyes that glow,A frost-mailed warrior Striding a shadowy steed of snow.” Edgar Fawcett (1847-1902)
The first of January can be seen as the day to celebrate the American Bar Association’s (ABA) “Full Employment Act.” Fifty-five tax breaks expired at the end of December, but lawyer-lobbyists will of course be out in force getting them re-instated. New taxes went into effect on January 1, including a flat 2% tax on all health insurers, which is expected to raise $8 billion to help offset costs of ObamaCare. There was a $2.00 per policy fee that will fund a new federal bureaucracy called the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and a 3.5% user fee to sell health plans on the HealthCare.gov website. These taxes and fees will be passed on in the form of higher premiums. The 40% tax on the so-called Cadillac plan (higher cost health plans) will not go into effect until January 1, 2018, when the current occupant of the White House is elsewhere.

An estimated 40,000 new laws, both state and federal, were added to the roles on the first day of the year, providing additional income to needy lawyers. The new laws include such critical rules as making bathrooms in California schools available based on “gender identity,” the banning of sharkskin soup in Delaware, and making it illicit, in many states, to stock incandescent light bulbs. And people wonder why morals are dissipating and the economy has been so anemic! Does anyone think that the President and his wife would find it okay if the Sidwell Friends School opened the girls’ bathrooms to fifteen year-old boys who had decided that for the moment they were gender confused? Are there not bigger problems facing America than 60-watt light bulbs?

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