http://www.thelandofthefree.net The Land of the Free presents articles and news about the world and the United States from a conservative, libertarian and classical liberal point of view. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:54:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by William Gheen President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC Late last night as I shut down my computer, I paused to reflect about the large volume of vitriol, attacks, distortions, screaming and yelling that I had to deal with this past week and it made me smile. http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/16/what-all-the-screaming-really-means/ In 1995, President Bill Clinton composed and signed an executive order prohibiting CIA officers from utilizing "unsavory characters" as informants? In other words, while gathering information or undergoing covert operations, intelligence officers overseas could not develop "assets" who were themselves terrorists, gunrunners, drug traffickers, organized crime gang leaders and members, ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/16/snitches-rats-and-squealers-obamas-counterterrorism-strategy/ The multi-racial political action committee called Americans for Legal Immigration PAC or ALIPAC rebuked Senator John McCain's latest smear attempt and calls on candidate McCain to apologize to the group's minority supporters. "McCain's campaign is pretty desperate to grab highly inaccurate information off of a left wing blog and try to ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/15/alipac-calls-for-john-mccain-to-apologize-to-minorities/ Despite continued controversy over the use of stun guns by police officers, one of the nation's largest law enforcement departments is increasing the number of Tasers purchased and distributed within that agency's ranks. In a press statement, officials from the Chicago Police Department announced that they are expanding its Taser ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/15/the-chicago-way-windy-city-cops-to-increase-stun-gun-stockpile/ Nancy Pelosi addressed the 2010 Legislative Conference for the National Association of Counties earlier this week. With her vacuous hyperbole, Pelosi confirmed, yet again, that she and Maxine Waters are cerebrally indistinguishable from cork. Being a fervid pursuant of the prodigiously stupid and the intellectually irrelevant, especially in Congress, I ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/15/nancy-pelosi-sums-up-what-is-wrong-with-the-democratic-led-congress-and-barack-obama-in-one-sentence/ Speaking to the perceived inequalities between the sexes in regards to domestic labor, President Obama said in an NBC interview that he thought men "need to be knocked across the head every once in a while." Many would brush the comments aside as the Chief Executive's attempt at humor. However, ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/14/obama-advocates-domestic-violence/ President Obama has gone around the world apologizing for actions taken by the United States Government that saved millions of lives over two centuries. He has yet to suggest any of those countries that inflicted pain on their neighbors and their own people apologize or show any remorse for their ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/14/no-apologies-needed-mr-president/ Obama does not compare favorably as a community organizer or as a party leader when matched against liberal-progressive party leaders in Nazi Germany. A reader wrote to ask how Rush Limbaugh differs from Joseph Goebbels. Both, said the reader, are hate-mongers. There isn't much similarity, of course. Limbaugh ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/14/barack-obama-an-also-ran/ By: Gary Kelly Are you Biblically Correct or Politically Correct? Just as many claim the religion of Islam has been hijacked by radicals, so too has America's Republic been hijacked by Democrats and RINOs by "fundamentally transforming the country" from individual responsibility, freedoms and liberty with a free market and majority ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/13/the-republic-has-been-hijacked/ 1. The American People have forgotten the most important Principle of our Founding: The distinction between the "Rule of Law" and the "Rule of Men". This distinction was illustrated in a discussion about the census questions between Megyn Kelly (Fox News) and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R. Minnesota) on June ... http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/03/13/the-us-census-rule-of-law-or-rule-of-men/