Obama’s chums go to jail, head off to greener pastures

Most media are currently obsessed with digging up whatever on the Republican presidential candidates. One blogger from The Washington Post even Tweeted an appeal for followers to help dig up something about former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the current GOP frontrunner.

Gingrich is the one person President Barack Obama would not like to debate, for obvious reasons.

As progressives chat and Tweet in their leftwing news cubicles across the land, political relations from Obama’s past are back in the news although most of the stories haven't run above the fold.

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Rezko investigations, Sanchez bill point to clampdown on US freedom of press

Every senator and representative should be required to read and study the US Constitution before taking office. Then they should have a written test. If they fail the test, they should not be seated.It’s hard to believe, but England’s regressive libel laws are impinging on freedom of the press in the US. WikiLeaks, the website hated by politicians of all persuasion, has just taken England’s libel laws to task over convicted felon Tony Rezko’s associations. Apparently media outlets attempting to investigate have been stymied by legal threats. The analysis at WikiLeaks is pretty complicated, but it’s substantial enough to cause concern.

This is a perfect example of the danger of over-globalization, as I call it. I brought this up at The US Report in an article about state sovereignty, mentioning President Barack Obama’s pick of Yale Law School dean Harold Koh for the position of Legal Advisor at the US Department of State. Rick Santorum wrote about Koh for The Philadelphia Inquirer, saying Koh believes the courts have ‘a central role to play in domesticating international law into U.S. law’ and should ‘use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system.’

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