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TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: “What country are we in?” He and his wife Pat are ensnared in a Kafkaesque nightmare unfolding in Orwellian language.

This town’s police department is conniving with the federal government to circumvent Massachusetts law — which is less permissive than federal law — in order to seize his livelihood and retirement asset. In the lawsuit titled “United States of America vs. 434 Main Street, Tewksbury, Massachusetts” the government is suing an inanimate object, the motel Caswell’s father built in 1955. The U.S. Department of Justice intends to seize it, sell it for perhaps $1.5 million and give up to 80 percent of that to the Tewksbury Police Department, whose budget is just $5.5 million. The Caswells have not been charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime. They are being persecuted by two governments eager to profit from what is antiseptically called the “equitable sharing” of the fruits of civil forfeiture, a process of government enrichment that often is indistinguishable from robbery. George Will

When bald eagles confront danger, most normal Americans would leap to preserve, protect and defend America’s national symbol. But Team Obama’s response is completely different: It wants to give wind-power companies long-term permits to butcher bald eagles on the altar of green energy.

Three years ago, after FWS investigated, a Wyoming utility called PacificCorp paid $10.5 million in fines after 232 golden eagles and other protected birds were electrocuted on its power lines between January 2007 and July 2009.

If bald eagles dropped dead beside oil derricks, Washington would pound the petroleum industry flatter than Weiner schnitzel. Instead, wind turbines chop bald eagles in half. Team Obama then lets wind companies eradicate even more of this Republic’s innocent national bird.

This is not the behavior of normal Americans. Deroy Murdock

In San Francisco, when the mob smashed the plate-glass window of a small business shop, the owner put up some plywood to replace the glass, and the mob wrote graffiti on his plywood. The consequences? None for the mob, but a citation for the shop owner for not removing the graffiti.

Everybody is not given these exemptions from paying the consequences of their own illegal acts. Only people who are currently in vogue with the elites of the left — in the media, in politics and in academia. Thomas Sowell

“[S]elf-absorption is part of the occupational hazard of politics, and it’s also part of the job description of being president. All that said, try to imagine Dwight Eisenhower talking about D-Day saying, ‘I did this. I decided this. I did this and then I did that.’ It’s inconceivable. That comparison between Obama and Eisenhower illustrated the problem for the president. If you struck from Barack Obama’s vocabulary the first-person singular pronoun, he would fall silent, which would be a mercy to us and a service to him, actually.” –political analyst George Will

“Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, ‘climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.’ When you slash the military’s budget to pay for failed solar companies — yeah, it does.” –Fred Thompson

“President Obama admitted that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person. So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It’s all the same.” –comedian Jay Leno

“The Obama campaign created a fictitious woman named ‘Julia’ to illustrate government services it will offer women throughout their lives. For instance, if Julia starts a worthless solar company, she’ll still get billions of taxpayer dollars.” –NewsBusted’s Jodi Miller

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team

“Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia.” –National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson, who has them covered here.

Dempsey wrote that he was concerned the military was teaching material “inconsistent with the values of our profession, and disrespectful of Islam.” A new review would “ensure our Professional Military Education programs exhibit the cultural sensitivity, respect for religion and intellectual balance that we should expect in our academic institutions.”

How about teaching material consistent with the values of free inquiry and with respect for veracity instead? What is urgently needed is a review to ensure military education offers unflinching threat analysis based on meticulously sourced facts and research. That’s what a “real” Joint Chiefs chairman would demand, not a “politically correct” curriculum designed to subordinate U.S. national security interests to a policy of not offending Islam.

Wake me when this horror flick is over. Diana West

A call to action for all Americans to use Social Media to do the job the Mainstream Media refuses to do in publicizing the murders of Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata with weapons allowed to walk by our own government.

Thomas Hobbes assumed an all-powerful government was necessary to protect us from violence. He called it Leviathan. But he never imagined Leviathan would plan our dinners. John Stossel

Michelle Malkin
My column this week is a follow-up to last week’s piece on ALEC vs. the progressive mob/corporate appeasers. Be sure to read the entire column (plus my e-mail exchanges with several cowardly businesses that caved to the Van Jones crowd), click on all the links, get educated, educate others, and use this information to help fight back. The conservative movement needs all hands on deck.
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