Twitter This Commentary In The News: Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying the news and commentary audio files. The news this morning contains details about The volcano in Iceland still disrupting travel around Europe with the Southern and Western regions hardest hit. Over 4 million gallons of oil have now spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and BP is blaming... Wait for it... Halliburton... for some shoddy underwater concrete work. There will be two senate hearings today. The Mineral Management Services of the Department of Interior which had bureaucrats literally sleeping and partying with industry representatives during the Bush administration has been "re-organized" to include 'checks and balances'. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a plan now that his Labor government has collapsed... He want to stay in power until the time a coalition government is formed. More News Off The Wire: More on the Department of Interior, whose MMS (recounted above) and other agencies have traditionally raped the Native American nations of their natural resources, is now robbing them of their right to hold elections:

ANADARKO, Oklahoma—A judge with the U.S. Interior Department used federal powers to stop a ballot election from being held by the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma. Federal orders kept Kiowas from going to the polls and exercising their rights to vote since March, in a special election that would have decided whether to recall Don Tofpi as Kiowa Business Committee Chairman and ban him from holding future office. Judge Phil Lujan, with the BIA’s Court of Indian Offenses, commonly known as CFR Court, issued Temporary Restraining Orders and Injunctions against the Kiowa Hearing Board and the Kiowa Election Board that restrain them from completing their duties in the recall election of Chairman Don Tofpi, until such time as the orders are further modified by the Court. For more than a month, federal injunctions on the election remain in full force and effect, essentially shutting down the Tribe’s ability to function as a constitutional democracy. According to Judge Lujan’s decree, violation of the orders by either of the Kiowa Boards, or their members individually, will be punishable by the Court in contempt actions. [In Full]

The DHS Warns us that returning Veterans are potential terrorists

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S. But the top House Democrat with oversight of the Department of Homeland Security said in a letter to Ms. Napolitano that he was "dumbfounded" that such a report would be issued. "This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy and civil liberties of many Americans - including war veterans," said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in his letter sent Tuesday night. The letter was representative of a public furor over the nine-page document since its existence was reported in The Washington Times on Tuesday. In her statement Wednesday, Ms. Napolitano defended the report, which says... [In Full]

Last but not least, Police State anyone? The full text of the Senate bill to re-create America as a police state. Here: Text of S.3081 as Introduced in Senate: Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Feeling "Belligerent" yet? -30-
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