\nContains sardonic political vitriol. Shielded for the sake of the childs; follow the jump or the link.\n<\/p>\n
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\nFirst off, the Justice Department said that the authority of the President as Commander-in-Chief trumps all other legal restraint on Presidential power.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nAround the same time, they claimed that the Fourth Amendment didn’t apply to anti-terrorism policy.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n“But Stagger Lee!” I hear you protest. “This was long ago! This was in a panic after September 11! This was a natural and understandable reaction to the panic of a terror attack on American soil! Any conservative would say the same!”\n<\/p>\n \nO RLY??<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n“Insight on the News,” by the way, is (was?) the weekly magazine of the Washington Times. Basically the house organ of the contemporary GOP. And yes – the professor quoted as saying that “under Clinton’s bill a teenager who shoots at a road sign with a .22-caliber rifle will have committed a terrorist act” is none other than the legendary Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.\n<\/p>\n \nSo yeah – when the President in question was the ol’ Arkansas Traveller, it’s a “gestapo-empowerment bill.” But for the current guy, it’s OK to feed the Constitution into the chipper-shredder…except for Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1.\n<\/p>\n \nAt some point, we’re going to need an actual conservative party in this country again. The one we have now got lost in a haze of pant-pissing fright and blind worship of retarded Texans. Until then, I strongly comment to you the website of The American Conservative<\/a>, whose blog is frequently updated and is chock-a-block with people who have rejected Bush-worship, and all its pomps and works and empty promises, for an actual honest-to-Buckley approach to conservative politics that comes with logical rigor and reality checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contains sardonic political vitriol. Shielded for the sake of the childs; follow the jump or the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}