NDAA Reform Fails, Minnesota GOP Gets Libertarianized, Schumer Shuns Tax Refugees: P.M. Links

NDAA Reform Fails, Minnesota GOP Gets Libertarianized, Schumer Shuns Tax Refugees: P.M. Links

| May 18, 2012

  • They're much cuddlier than you think! Really!Saying, “the plaintiffs have in fact lost
    certain First Amendment freedoms as a result of the enactment” of
    Section 1021 of the NDAA, letting the military detain anyone it
    suspects “substantially supported” accused terrorist groups, Judge
    Katherine Forrest issued a
    preliminary injunction     against those provisions.
    Meanwhile,  Rep. Tom Rooney
    smeared     Rep. Justin Amash’s efforts to eliminate the military’s
    authority to detain individuals without due process as trying to
    “coddle foreign enemy combatants,” setting the tone as the House

    voted down     the amendment.
  • Under fire for “drone strike” assassinations performed without
    due process, sometimes on U.S. citizens, with known innocent
    casualties, government officials are
    considering sharing more information     in hopes of winning
    support for the program.
  • Americans Elect, the establishment-backed effort to groom a
    high-profile centrist, “problem-solving” presidential candidate,
    admitted
    defeat     after nobody interested in the nomination raised
    sufficient support. (HT Eduard van Haalen) The Washington
    Post     painted the failure of the bloodless, “non-ideological”
    effort as the
    death-knell     for third parties in general.
  • Chen Guangcheng’s nephew, accused of attempted murder for
    defending himself against Chinese officials who stormed his house
    seeking his activist uncle,
    won’t be permitted representation     by a human rights
    attorney.
  • The Minnesota Republican Party is on the
    verge of a takeover     by young, political-newbie libertarians.
    They challenge not only the old-guard’s ideology, but its
    financial-management skills.
  • Sen. Charles Schumer thinks that people who flee America’s tax
    collectors are, nevertheless, desperate to drop in for a visit, and
    should be
    denied U.S. hospitality     unless they cough up lots of cash. It’s
    sort of like extortion, but it’s not, because …
  • In advance of the NATO summit in Chicago, lawyers say police

    preemptively and illegally raided     an apartment where activists
    planning protests are staying, and arrested nine of the
    occupants.

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