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Obama Administration Sues Michigan for Prosecuting "Federal Issue" of Bank Robbery

July 15, 2010 at 10:48 am

In a surprise move, the Obama Justice Department filed suit today against the State of Michigan and Macomb County for prosecuting a Washington Township man for bank robbery, under its controversial and tough bank robbery statute.

Scott Edward Berry, 38, was arraigned in May in Macomb County District Court, after being arrested by the county Sheriff.

"Bank robbery is a federal crime," Holder said in his press conference. "We can't have states just making up their own laws about this serious federal matter."

The federal lawsuit further noted that if states are left up to their own devices to prosecute bank robbery, that it could "place an undue burden on the federal government."

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Don't Let Obama Cut the Blue Angels

July 5, 2010 at 7:34 pm

Whenever the budget becomes a potent political issue, liberals target two areas in the defense budget–military demonstration teams, and weapons that assure America's future dominance.

Lately, conservatives have started to join that bandwagon, to show they are not reflexively against defense cuts. This is a mistake.

The pride and patriotism stirred by the Blue Angels pays an irreplaceable dividend– and that is why liberals want to cut it. To Barack Obama is the military is a necessary evil, not something to be glorified and cheered by thrilled audiences.

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review of Hellhound on His Trail

June 30, 2010  •  Frontpage Magazine

No matter how much — or how little — you already know about James Earl Ray's assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., you will be spellbound by Hampton Sides' superb new book, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin.

Sides focuses on storytelling, fashioning a narrative that, like a nonfiction Day of the Jackal, is made no less fascinating or suspenseful by the fact that we know the outcome of events.

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50 Viewing Choices for Memorial Day

May 31, 2010  •  NewsRealBlog.com

In no particular order, here are 50 films and television events that are worth your time and which to one degree of realism or another, honor the sacrifice we remember today:

Saving Private Ryan

Besides bringing the sights and sounds of war to the screen like no other film, this movie asks the audience what they have done with their lives to make such sacrifice worthwhile

The Great Escape

The most entertaining war movie of all time, with the greatest cast.

Blackhawk Down

Battle scenes only surpassed by Saving Private Ryan, this film illustrates the esprit de corps of the American soldier like few other films.

Casablanca

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War May not be Like the Movies, but Quit Blaming John Wayne

May 30, 2010 at 4:58 pm

What "isn't like a John Wayne movie"is what the pontificators describe as "a John Wayne movie."

It's become the new cliche. Every Memorial Day, a teacher/historian/columnist or such has to think of something to say, and inevitably we hear a phrase something like, "War is not like a John Wayne movie." OK, but who the heck ever said war was like a John Wayne movie? Life is not like many movies. Even movies that are based on real, heavily documented events – Titanic, for one – don't hold up well to close scrutiny. So why pick on John Wayne?

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