"As courts claim the power to silence, censor and punish dissident speech about their own courts, it’s good to remember that the Supreme Court itself acknowledged it could do no such thing. Congress itself revised contempt law to make clear courts hold no such power and impeached a judge for exceeding it.
"Gag orders and contempt use during pending cases “produce restrictive results at the precise time when public interest in the matters discussed would naturally be at its height” and thereby “fall not only at a crucial time but upon the most important topics of discussion.” Bridges v. California, 314 U.S. 252, 270 (1941). This why courts cannot ban or punish statements even if those statements have a “reasonable tendency to obstruct justice in a pending case.”
Robert Barnes
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...