Showing posts with label Todd Beamon. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Military Had NO Choice

March 26, 2015 Newsmax.com , Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl 0 Comments
Gen. Hayden: Bergdahl Charges Reinforce Military Conduct Standards

By Todd Beamon, 25 Mar. 2015, Newsmax.com

The Army's decision Wednesday to charge Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior over his capture by the Taliban "reinforces the reality and the belief that the standards of behavior that we expect of our military members are still the standards we expect," retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden tells Newsmax.

"You've got tens of thousands of other young men and women who go there and don't do what he did," said Hayden, who directed both the CIA and the National Security Agency.

"You can think on a human level about a troubled young man and all of those thoughts — but it's a betrayal of those people who went there and did their duty if this kind of action did not have consequences."

Former House Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra said the charges were "all about maintaining the discipline, the morale and the integrity of the forces."

"You're always disappointed that a U.S. military person would engage in those activities — and you're glad that the process is working," Hoekstra told Newsmax. "A lot of people have been frustrated that it has taken so long, but the process appears to be working."

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Fatal to Ocare?

November 09, 2014 Newsmax.com , Obamacare 0 Comments
GOP Cheers High Court's Hearing Of Challenge To ACA 'Pyramid Scheme'

Todd Beamon, Nov. 7, 2014, Newsmax

Republicans cheered the Supreme Court's decision to hear a challenge to the subsidies that are the backbone to Obamacare, saying that ruling in favor of the appeal would effectively destroy President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.

"If they end up throwing it out, I don't see how Obamacare survives," Texas Rep. Steve Stockman told Newsmax. He was referring to the tax credits that have helped more than 4 million people in 36 states afford health coverage.

"The whole pyramid scheme is based on forced dues, and if you don't force dues, and you don't force the states to subsidize, then a lot of people are not going to be able to afford it without that subsidy," Stockman added. "The administration is going to be forced to change it."

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Friday, September 26, 2014

Dershowitz, an intellectually honest lefty

September 26, 2014 Dinesh D'Souza , Federal Election Commission 0 Comments
Experts Slam D'Souza Sentence: 'Never Should Have Been Prosecuted'

By Todd Beamon, Sept. 23, 2014, Newsmax.com

Legal experts and former federal regulatory officials on Tuesday slammed the sentence of probation with eight months of confinement imposed on conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza for federal campaign-finance violations."He never should have been prosecuted for this at all," Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax. "This was a small, well-motivated mistake.

"Just probation would have been the appropriate sentence in this case," he added. "No confinement anywhere."

David Mason, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, laughed when asked about D'Souza's confinement.

"It's not going to do anybody any good, I guess that's my first thought," he told Newsmax. "My second thought is that the judge certainly exercised good sense in rejecting the prosecution's call to put him in jail for a one-time thing like this — which was bad judgment, but frankly didn't hurt anybody."

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan sentenced D'Souza, 53, to eight months in a community confinement center during five years of probation after the latter pleaded guilty to violating campaign-finance laws.

D'Souza, whose top-grossing 2012 documentary blasted President Barack Obama, was also fined $30,000 and ordered to teach English to non-English-speaking people eight hours a week while on probation.

Berman also imposed therapeutic counseling on D'Souza, in which he is to participate for five years.

D'Souza's movie, "2016: Obama's America," remains a top-grossing documentary, with a take of more than $33.4 million. He released "America: Imagine the World Without Her," in July, which has so far grossed over $14.4 million.

In May, D'Souza pleaded guilty to illegally reimbursing two "straw donors" who donated $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 U.S. Senate campaign in New York of Wendy Long, a first-time Republican candidate whom he had known since attending Dartmouth College in the early 1980s.

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Even dems smell a rat

August 17, 2014 Indictment , Newsmax.com 0 Comments
Political Strategists Slam Rick Perry Indictment As 'Outrageous'

Texas Governor Rick Perry
By Todd Beamon, Aug. 16, 2014, Newsmax.com

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's indictment on Friday by a state grand jury on charges stemming from a funding veto he made last year is "outrageous" and nothing more than "the criminalization of political differences," Democratic pollster and analyst Doug Schoen told Newsmax.

"I've never seen anything like this in politics," he said. "It looked to me like what Perry was doing was right, reasonable and responsible."

Schoen cautioned, however, that the Democrats needed to be very careful of using the indictment to dash Perry's chances should he choose to run for the White House in 2016.

"It is one of the worst things that the Democrats could do: to try to go after a partisan Republican with a partisan criminal indictment," he said. "It is a further sign of really the destruction of our nonpartisan — seemingly nonpartisan — criminal justice system.

"It is very depressing, sad and just plain wrong."

Perry, 63, the Lone Star State's longest-serving governor, was indicted on charges of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony that carries a penalty of five to 99 years in prison, and of coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 10 years.

The Republican, who is not seeking re-election this fall, is the state's first indicted governor in nearly a century. Perry was first elected to the Statehouse in 2000. He is considering a presidential bid in 2016. He ran unsuccessfully for president in 2012.

Mary Anne Wiley, Perry's general counsel, defended the governor's action and predicted victory over the indictment.

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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Ben Carson: Where Are Liberals When Black Conservatives Are Harassed? --Doc, libs are the ones doing the harassing!

April 06, 2014 Black Republicans , Condoleezza Rice 0 Comments
Dr. Ben Carson
By Todd Beamon, Apr. 4, 2014, Newsmax.com

Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson charged on Friday that mainstream African-American organizations are silent when black Republicans or conservatives are criticized.

"Where are the black liberals when atrocities occur?" Carson, who is weighing a GOP candidacy for the White House in 2016, asked talk-show host Roland Martin on "NewsOne Now" on the black cable network channel TV One. "Organizations like the NAACP …, do you ever see them coming out in support of a conservative black person?"

Carson noted that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been the subject of protests by student and faculty at Rutgers University since she was selected as commencement speaker in February. They charge that Rice supported torture and lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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Carson, 62, who retired last summer as chief of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said that the protests have occurred simply because Rice "was a conservative."

The university has affirmed its decision on Rice speaking the May commencement.

Carson himself has come under fire for saying Obamacare was "the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery" and for likening the United States to Nazi Germany.

With his slavery remark, Carson told Martin that he was "not trying to make light of slavery. What I was trying to get people to understand is what is happening with a government program that takes control of the most important thing you have, which is your health."


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