Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the Senate about seven legal briefs he signed when lawmakers considered his nomination to his current job, according to a letter released on Friday.

Barack Obama

Two of the briefs involved appeals to the Supreme Court for Jose Padilla, who sought release from a military prison in South Carolina where he was being held after then-President George W. Bush designated him an "enemy combatant."

Padilla was held in a military brig for three years before his case was moved to a criminal court in Miami, where he was convicted on charges of offering his services to militants.

The Justice Department sent the Senate Judiciary Committee, which vets presidential nominees, a list of briefs that were omitted on Friday. "We regret the omission," Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich said in a letter to the panel.

Holder has been facing intense scrutiny as the Obama administration tries to decide whether to prosecute terrorism suspects like the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in military or criminal courts.

The attorney general had been spearheading that effort but concerns about holding those trials in criminal court forced the White House to intervene and officials are now weighing whether to prosecute Mohammed and four of his alleged co-conspirators in a military court.

Previously, Holder has disclosed to the Senate five briefs he submitted to the Supreme Court

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"The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)." -- Bukhari 7.62.88

This is Muhammad's example. It will be essentially impossible to keep Muslim men from emulating his example as long as he is held up as the supreme model for conduct (cf. Qur'an 33:21).

Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "Child marriage still an issue in Saudi Arabia," by Joel Brinkley for the San Francisco Chronicle, March 13:

Saudi Arabia has a serious child-marriage problem.

It's emblematic of the nation's struggle between modernity and traditional Islam. But the lives of thousands of little girls are being destroyed as the Saudi government ponderously debates a solution.

Child marriage has been acceptable, even encouraged, in many Islamic states since the religion was born. After all, among the prophet Muhammad's dozen wives was Aisha, who is believed to have been 6 or 7 years old when the two were married. But in Saudi Arabia, at least, the practice slammed headlong into modern values last spring, when a Saudi court refused to nullify the marriage of an 8-year-old girl from Unaiza to a man in his late 50s.

Over the past few years, long-standing social practices in Saudi Arabia have been thrown into the glare of world opinion, embarrassing the state and forcing at least cosmetic changes.

In 2006, for example, a judge sentenced a young woman to 200 lashes and several months in prison for being alone in a car with a man she was not related to, where they were attacked and she was raped. Opprobrium from around the world rained down on Riyadh. President George W. Bush asked: "What happens if this happens to my daughter? I'd be angry at a state that does not support the victim." King Abdullah commuted the sentence.

In 2008, one of the nation's most senior religious authorities directed that two reporters for a mainstream Saudi newspaper be executed for publishing stories suggesting that religions other than Islam are worthy of respect. Once again, the cleric's remark spawned international outrage, and the cleric's order was ignored. Then came last spring's court ruling on that 8-year-old wife....

Saudi Arabia is hardly the only state facing this problem. Last year, Turkey made it legal for 12-year-olds to marry, if their parents agree. The Turkish Statistical Institute estimates that one-third of the state's brides are under 18. In Yemen and Bangladesh, even among some sects in Burma, child marriage is commonplace. The victims, in those places and elsewhere: little girls who are forced into wasted, often miserable, lives....

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March 13, 2010

War is Deceit, said Muhammad. "Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard," by Ahmed Al-Haj for AP, March 13 (thanks to all who sent this in):

SAN'A, Yemen -- The U.S. al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen had persuaded his guard to unshackle him so the two could pray together and then snatched his unattended gun and killed him during the suspect's failed escape attempt, senior security officials said Saturday.

Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old American of Somali descent, had traveled to Yemen two years ago, ostensibly to study Arabic, and was recently arrested there in a sweep against al-Qaida.

Mobley made his bold escape attempt March 7 after being transferred from prison to a hospital in the capital, San'a, for medical treatment. He tried to shoot his way out of the hospital, killing one guard and seriously injuring another before being recaptured.

New details about the episode obtained by The Associated Press indicate Mobley had a level of training and cunning characteristic of the al-Qaida terror network....

Mobley grew up in Buena, New Jersey. His parents said he is not a terrorist, though a former friend said Mobley was becoming increasingly radical in his Muslim beliefs before he moved to Yemen. His mother last spoke to him in January.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/#

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The slow, deadly destruction of American freedom has carried us to this day of Obama.

“The world is a dangerous place to live ….. not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein

That’s right.  It’s over.  Their guns are bigger.  They control all the money.  They control the energy.  They control the land.  They control the food and they control the water.  Soon they will control our health care, down to the last detail on our electronic health care records being stored in a giant computer in Washington DC, from which they can determine if we are worthy of receiving health care.  The older we get, the less worthy we become.

Just like the guy standing on the beach witnessing in horror, the onrushing tsunami wave and has no place to run, we might just as well bend over and kiss our behinds goodbye.  Freedom and liberty are gone.  The constitution and bill of rights are just so much toilet paper and American sovereignty is but a fading memory of a bunch of dead guys who thought they could create individual liberty and have it last.

This didn’t happen overnight, you know.  It’s been coming on for about a hundred to a hundred and twenty years.  First, the civil war gave us the 14th Amendment, and we now let illegal aliens born in the U. S., become U. S. Citizens, thus creating a magnet for millions more to come.

Then a cadre of real smart guys from Harvard around the 1880s (the Dean and Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes) decided that we shouldn’t be bothered by the strict interpretation of the U. S. Constitution, we need to use court precedences to guide our adjudication of laws and legislation, court precedences that reflect the changing social nature of our society.  (Socialism by any other name)  They called this new paradigm of legal jurisprudence, Positivism.  A collective shudder must have rattled the souls of the Founding Fathers and a deep groan could be heard emanating from their graves.  Cracks started forming in our Constitution.

First dictator of America and Constitution hater, President Woodrow Wilson

Then came the first dictator of America and Constitution hater, President Woodrow Wilson, who did everything in his power to open the cracks in the Constitution even wider, by forming the League of Corrupt Nations, presiding over the 16th Amendment and the creation of the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service, which legalized taxes on Americans that were never authorized by the Constitution.  The government, with this new found source of revenue, began to grow and grow and gain immense power.

But the constitutional corruption didn’t stop with President Wilson. The second dictator of America, FDR, used a crow bar to pry the cracks in our Constitution so far that it became literally unrecognizable.  He did it by using the emergency of the Great Depression as his rationale to fundamentally transform America.  The opposition to FDR was fierce, but the great savior and orator convinced the weak among us (voters), that the only answer to this unprecedented and worsening crisis had to come at the expense of their freedom and liberty.  In the fog of our pending destruction of the 1930s, unions, socialists, Nazis, communists and the Technocrats all rose in prominence to “feed” the hungry souls of the weak and troubled within our ranks.  Many were forever converted, and the cracks in the Constitution got wider still.

Deadly destruction of American freedom has carried us to this day of Obama

The slow, deadly destruction of American freedom has carried us to this day of Obama, who is trying to repeat, in spades, what FDR did, in fundamentally transforming America into a utopian socialist society, once again exploiting the weak among us and using the strategy of class warfare to dupe the naive into supporting this constitutional treason.

Johnson and Carter took us deeper into the abyss of socialism and the weakening of American power in the world.  Obama, Pelosi and Reid are attempting to tip America over the edge from which there will be no return and they are on the verge of completing the job …… if they get their way.

The fact is, the American people, the so-called Consent of the Governed, went to sleep for a hundred years and have allowed what we face today to happen.  If there is anyone to blame, we can only blame ourselves.  We had the mechanisms to stop these traitors from tearing the fabric of freedom asunder, but we abandoned our roots of freedom, obtained at great sacrifice, in favor of comfort and security.  We couldn’t be bothered.

Still, there are indications that the Obamas in America have awakened a sleeping giant and have run headlong into a center-right brick wall.  Some have said that the progressives are beginning to unravel.  As evidence of their unraveling, attacks on conservatives grow by the day.  They fear us, and they worry we might be successful in ruining their diabolical plans for America.  They just might be right, but that depends entirely on the level of conservative commitment to defend freedom.

We are in a war for the very survival of individual liberty and for the last 100 years, we have been losing that war.  History is on the ragged edge of repeating itself, once again.  It is evident that serfs they want us to be and serfs we will become …… unless tens of millions of Americans have the b…..lls to stop them, with whatever it takes.  If we are divided and fragmented in our prosecution of this war, we most surely will lose.  But losing is not an option if freedom and liberty are to be preserved for present and future generations.

~ The Author ~
Ron Ewart is the President of The National Association of Rural Landowners and nationally recognized author on freedom and property rights issues. Ron may reached for comment via email at r.ewart@comcast.net.

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 By: Tom Tancredo

Posted: March 13, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

© 2010 

"Joe the plumber" became famous when he asked a question of candidate Barack Obama at a town-hall meeting in Ohio. You haven't heard of Frank the carpenter, but Frank has had even more trouble getting his questions answered than Joe did.

Joe the plumber asked a question about small-business taxes, whereas Frank the carpenter has a question about small-business jobs – thousands of jobs being lost to illegal workers. Lost jobs should be a hot topic in the middle of a severe recession, but politicians run from Frank's questions like vampires running from a cross.

Frank the carpenter is not a political activist. He works all day and sometimes weekends, and he can't get time off to attend political rallies. But he is a citizen, a taxpayer, a father and grandfather, and he is as worried about his country as any Campaign for Liberty enthusiast.

Frank has been watching jobs disappear over the past decade, long before the current recession. He is worried because he sees thousands of jobs lost not to a recession but to illegal workers.

Frank the carpenter is not alone in his concerns. He is in the same boat as Ralph the roofer, Eddie the electrician and Antonio the gas-pipe welder. They have a lot in common with Charlie the carpet installer, Johnny the brick mason and Larry the dry waller.

Concerned about the flow of illegal aliens over our border? Don't miss Tom Tancredo's book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security"

Frank and Larry might have met Gilberto, the fourth-generation Mexican American citizen whose janitorial business failed when Safeway and all the big grocery chains gave their cleaning contracts to a big company based in Phoenix that uses mainly illegal workers. Gilberto discovered a whole new meaning for "don't ask, don't tell."

In fact, Gilberto is but one of millions of Hispanic citizens who would not be shocked by the data hidden deep in the archives of the liberal Pew Hispanic Center. Buried in the footnotes of their quarterly economic surveys are data which show that legal Hispanics annually lose tens of thousands of jobs to "new immigrants," Pew's politically correct code for illegal workers. The Pew Center likes to trumpet the growth of Hispanic employment but isn't too keen to admit that Hispanic citizens and legal Hispanic immigrants have lost millions of jobs to illegal workers over the past decade. Don't ask, and definitely, don't tell.

Frank has seen all of this up close and personal, and he has collected hundreds of documents, but it seems no one is interested. That makes him more than worried. It makes him frustrated and, not surprisingly, angry.

Make no mistake, we are not talking about "jobs Americans won't do." That is the big lie that slanders American workers These are jobs Americans have done for generations, but are now being given to illegal workers for only one reason: they will work for less money and no benefits.

Often, the company's labor broker wears two hats and draws two paychecks. One paycheck is from the company, and the second paycheck as an independent contractor who hires dozens of illegal workers for work at construction sites. The labor broker then pays the workers as independent contractors, thus keeping them "off the books," avoiding payroll taxes and any need to provide benefits.

Frank the carpenter sees millions of dollars lost in Colorado tax receipts, money lost to schools, highways and bridges, law enforcement and libraries. He knows that the lost revenue runs into billions nationally. Frank also sees politicians of both parties wink at this criminal behavior, and even the IRS shows remarkably little curiosity.

Frank sees labor brokers exploiting migrant workers. The laborers are hired and then dismissed after two weeks – without any paycheck.

Frank has taken his evidence to the State Department of Labor, and they are not interested. He has talked to the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and asked them to investigate. They are not interested. He has given documents and affidavits to the Denver Post, and they were not interested. So, Frank is not surprised that the mayor of Denver is not interested: He is too busy running for governor on a jobs platform.

Are the tea-party leaders also uninterested in Frank the carpenter and Ralph the roofer? They pay taxes, they vote, they love America as much as an unemployed software engineer, real estate agent or investment banker – and they have as much at stake as any Ron Paul libertarian.

My guess is that Joe the plumber would welcome Frank and his blue-collar friends into the tea-party tent, but some of the Washington gatekeepers think differently. Open-borders lobbyists like Grover Norquist and Dick Armey, who run Washington-based organizations that claim to speak for grass-roots Americans, say those illegal workers are future Republican voters. So, we all have to keep quiet about those lost jobs.

No, I swear, I'm not making that up.

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Tom Tancredo is a former five-term congressman from Colorado and 2008 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. He currently serves as chairman of the Rocky Mountain Foundation and co-chairman of TeamAmericaPac. Tancredo is the author of "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security."

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