Chris Stevens kept a diary. About 2-3 weeks after the Benghazi Massacre, the F.B.I. finally showed up and went through the place. To the chagrin of the F.B.I. and subsequent to that, CNN showed up and went through the place and found Stevens’ diary. Of course, the F.B.I. wanted the diary, but it has been under wraps. CNN finally announced it would release the contents of the diary yesterday, after removal of personal and non-relative notes.
COMMENTS:
It is asserted that the journal contains strong evidence to
support allegations of a subsequent cover-up.
Hopefully, it contains the names of some of the people who were on the
ground during the attack that Congress might subpoena for testimony, names that
the Administration has flatly refused to release.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. What’s your reaction to yesterday’s Supreme Court rulings
about gay marriage? (Deidre ~ Mt.
Pleasant, UT)
A. Both decisions
were legally correct, although one was somewhat
disagreeable with me from the standpoint of my religious convictions. The DOMA law is discriminatory on its face,
placing gay married couples in a different class and allowing heterosexual
couples certain benefits gay couples could not have access to. As for the California case, after losing in a
lower Court hearing which struck the law down, California authorities refused
to appeal the case to a higher Court; for this, they should be removed for
malfeasance / misfeasance in office; they
had a fundamental duty to represent the will of the people, whether they
agreed with it or not. A Pro-Prop 8
group stepped in to take the case and appeal it. The Supreme Court ruled that the new group
"lacked standing" to litigate the matter, which is entirely correct.
I know that a
whole lot of people, particularly in California, are ticked off because they
have voted twice to ban same sex marriage.
I certainly sympathize with them, inasmuch as the will of the people is
being thwarted by legal technicalities.
Nevertheless, the Court cannot justifiably step beyond the limits of its
jurisdiction. The matter needs to be
re-appealed, if that can be done. The
plain and simple truth here, in the California case, is that the State of
California has inserted a matter of religious belief into a governmental
decision; the definition of marriage is a matter for the church. With respect to benefits, such as employment
insurance, then the State has a right to define under what circumstances people
are entitled to those benefits; that must include gay
couples, whether married or
not. In allowing the lower court ruling
to stand, the Supremes negated the effect of Proposition 8 and ignored the will
of the public. Hopefully, Californians
will have yet another run at it.
Q. What do you think Obama thinks about his plummeting poll
ratings? (Erin ~ Sacramento, CA)
A. I really don’t think he cares. He won a second term, he is in charge and in
his mind can do as he pleases; he thinks there is not a damned thing you can do
about it. In a sense, he’s correct, but
you can certainly put a helluva lot of pressure on Congress to do something
about it, and they can.
Q. LIGNET is reporting that, while addressing an audience on
Capitol Hill on June 14, R. James Woolsey, a long-time foreign policy expert
who served as head of the CIA from 1993-1995, warned that North Korea probably already has a nuclear weapon specifically designed
to generate an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) so powerful that if it were used in
an on attack the United States, it would threaten the future of American
civilization. The question is: What does the United States do about it? (Gregory ~ Woodland, CA)
A. Take a trip to Africa.
Pardon my cynicism, but Obama is not the answer. If we were to confirm that such a weapon
exists, then we should tell China to get it removed before we do it.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could
punish the man without punishing the office.” ~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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