A federal judge has given the US government until Tuesday evening to answer that question, which was posed by lawyers representing two Guantánamo detainees, Emad Hassan and Ahmed Rabbani, who have been held without charge or trial. Authorities at the prison have barred the two men from communal prayers during the holy month of Ramadan because they are on hunger strike. Two courts ruled previously that Hassan and Rabbani are not people, at least “within the scope” of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prevents the government from substantially burdening a person’s freedom to exercise religion. In last week’sHobby Lobby…

The decision by so-called “left wing” Jewish Supremacist pressure group J-Street to join the condemnation of the Presbyterian Church (USA) for its recent decision to disinvest from Israel, has clearly revealed the inner workings of how Zionist extremists go to work to dominate both sides of the political spectrum—but work to promote essentially the same agenda   J-Street was set up by Zionist extremists as an “alternative” to AIPAC, which, it was perceived, was too “right wing” for liberal-leaning “American Jews.”   (That this perception was wrong, is another matter—J Street was even recentlyrefused admission to the Conference of Presidents…

History never repeats itself, but from time to time, consciously or not, some influential men attempt to force us into the monstrosity of their imaginary time machines to try to reverse decades, and in the case of feudalism, almost a millenium of social progress. The mid-20th century brought the years of collective psychosis of Adolf Hitler’s “thousand year Reich,” and more recently what can be viewed as the United States of America’s imperialist manifesto or so-called “Project for the New American Century”, concocted in 1997 but still in effect today under the current administration, with the self-proclaimed objective to “promote…

America has entered its third great era: the post-constitutional one. In the first, in the colonial years, a unitary executive, the King of England, ruled without checks and balances, allowing no freedom of speech, due process or privacy when it came to protecting his power. In the second, the principles of the Enlightenment and an armed rebellion were used to push back the king’s abuses. The result was a new country and a new constitution with a Bill of Rights expressly meant to check the government’s power. Now we are wading into the shallow waters of a third era, a…

And yet we cannot permit the pressures of party responsibility to submerge on every issue the call of personal responsibility. For the party which, in its drive for unity, discipline and success, ever decides to exclude new ideas, independent conduct or insurgent members, is in danger. In the words of Senator Albert Beveridge:                A party can live only by growing, intolerance of ideas (brings its) death….An organization that depends upon reproduction only for its votes, son taking the place of the father, is not a political party, but a Chinese tong ; not citizens brought together by thought and…