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This undated photo provided by the California Department of Corrections shows Clarence Ray Allen. The California Supreme Court Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, refused to block the scheduled Jan. 17 execution of Allen after the inmate claimed the punishment would be cruel and unusual because of his age and health problems. In a two-sentence order signed by Chief Justice Ronald George, Allen’s request for a reprieve was ‘denied on the merits.’ An attorney for Allen said the 75-year-old condemned man, whose request for clemency to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pending, would ask the federal courts to stop the execution.

San Francisco Chronicle: State high court rejects appeal from 75-year-old Death Row inmate

The state Supreme Court turned down an appeal today by condemned inmate Clarence Ray Allen, who argued that his scheduled execution next week would be cruel and unusual because of his advanced age and health problems.

The court’s unanimous decision, issued without comment, means that Allen, the state’s oldest Death Row inmate at 75, is running out of legal options to block his execution. Allen, who is legally blind and uses a wheelchair, ordered three murders from his prison cell in 1980.

Defense attorney Michael Satris said today that he would explore other issues related to Allen’s death sentence in the federal court system.

“I’m not being surprised or unsurprised by anything,” Satris said. “You never know.”

Allen’s request for clemency by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pending. The governor will not hold a clemency hearing for Allen, but will instead review written arguments before deciding whether to spare Allen’s life, his office says.

Schwarzenegger will NOT grant clemency.

BIG JAB for Clarence in one week.

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ABC News: NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying

Former Employee Admits to Being a New York Times Source

Read the entire sad commentary about a pyschologically challenged former NSA “black world” insider who will likely be prosecuted for “leaking”classified NSA material.

Tice is NOT a “Whisteblower” but a TRAITOR.

Prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.

Watch the ABC video here.

Read an unclassified letter from the NSA to Russell Tice regarding his non-disclosure agreement and discussion of sensitive classifed materials

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NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: Arlen Specter Asks Attorney General Gonzales to Testify Regarding Legality

NSA Surveillance Watch: AP Poll- Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop?

NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: Vice President Cheney Strongly Defends Eavesdropping Operation

Cox & Forkum: One Man’s Whistleblower

Global War on Terror Watch: Why the NSA Monitors Communications of Al-Qaida

NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: President Bush Defends NSA Surveillance

NSA Leak Case Watch: New York Times’ Reporter James Risen

NSA Leak Case Watch: Justice Deptartment Probing Domestic Spying Leak

NSA Surveillance Watch: President Had Legal Authority to OK Taps

NSA Surveillance Watch: Carter and Clinton Executive Orders Authorizing Secret Searches Without a Warrant

NSA Surveillance Watch: Calls for Congressional Hearings

NSA Surveillance Watch: President Bush defends Spying as “A Necessary Part of My Job to Protect” Americans from Attack

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Flap: Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Removes United Nations Seals on Nuclear Facilities

Technorati Tags: Iran, Cox&Forkum, Nuclear

Technorati Tags: Gaggle, Newsbusters.org

Supporters greet Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito as he arrives for the second day of his confirmation hearings in Washington, January 10, 2006.

AP: Alito Pleases GOP Senators, Not Democrats

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito picked his way carefully Tuesday through the issues of abortion and warrantless wiretapping, satisfying Senate Republicans at his confirmation hearings but provoking Democratic expressions of displeasure.

The Bill of Rights applies “in times of war and in times of national crisis,” the 55-year-old appeals court judge said, although he declined to specify whether President Bush acted properly in ordering wiretaps without warrants in selected cases as part of the war on terror.

Asked repeatedly about abortion, he assured the Senate Judiciary Committee he would first take previous rulings into account. At the same time, he stressed that precedent, including the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman’s right to end her pregnancy, is not binding on the high court.

“I would approach the question with an open mind and I would listen to the arguments that were made,” said Alito, who wrote two decades ago that he did not believe the Constitution includes the right to an abortion.

No major gaffs and the Senate Democrats look like a group of mental midgets compared to Judge Alito.

Samuel Alito is NO Harriet Miers.

Michelle Malkin has a good round-up of pieces, ALITO WATCH: DAY 2

So, is Judge Samuel Alito unstoppable for confirmation to the United State Supreme Court?

You betcha……the Democrats will NOT DARE to filibuster and if the do……..NUCLEAR OPTION.

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California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger smiles during a news conference at the Northeast Valley Health Corp in North Hollywood, California January 9, 2006. Schwarzenegger was back at work Monday after suffering a minor motorcycle accident that required a hospital visit to receive 15 stitches to treat a cut lip, his office said.

Los Angeles Times: Schwarzenegger’s Budget Would Trigger Billions in New Spending

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a crusader for fiscal restraint since he was elected two years ago, will unveil a budget today that would trigger billions of dollars in new spending well into the future.

The governor plans to increase funding for education, healthcare and transportation programs. Much of it is spending that the state would continue to be responsible for in future years.

Schwarzenegger’s spending plan comes at the same time he is proposing — independent of his budget — to bring before voters $68 billion in new borrowing to improve the state’s roads, bridges, ports and levees over the next 10 years. Californians would need to begin paying for that by the end of next year.

It all comes as California’s $115.7-billion budget remains chronically imbalanced and as the state is expected to lose billions of dollars in federal aid over the next several years. Even without the governor’s new programs, the state was projected to spend more than it takes in through 2010.

The Governor’s plan is FLAWED and will NOT receive voter approval.

This is NO MORE than another TAX and SPEND political scheme designed to help his re-election candidacy.

Watch for a Republican Primary Challenge or Third Party candidacy to derail Schwarzenegger’s re-election hopes.

Stay tuned…..

Dan Walters: But as he launches “Governator III,” he may find that abrupt shifts of public persona grate on voters.

Phil Angelides – Democrat Candidate for Governor: “We need to do more than we are doing — the governor’s plan is full of a lot of hype and has numbers that don’t tell the truth.”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California Infrastructure Bond Will NOT Include Tax Increases

California Taxes Watch: Builders and Politicians Pushing Bond Package

Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Here Come the Tax Increases

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A view of Natanz uranium enrichment facility, 155 miles south of the Iranian capital of Tehran, March 30, 2005. The U.N. nuclear watchdog confirmed on Tuesday that Iran has broken U.N. seals at the Natanz facility, setting the stage for a showdown between the Islamic republic and the West.

ASSociated Press: U.S., Other Nations Rebuke Iran Over Seals

Iran removed seals on its nuclear facilities Tuesday, ending a two-year freeze on work there despite warnings from the United States and other countries concerned about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

The United States rebuked Iran for the move, calling it a step toward creating the material for nuclear bombs. British Prime Minister
Tony Blair’s official spokesman said the international community was “running out of patience” with Tehran.

Both countries, along with France and Germany, have called on Tehran to cease nuclear activities until an agreement has been reached on the scope of its nuclear program.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tehran was again in breach of resolutions passed by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog and said steps to restart uranium enrichment could not be justified.

“We are profoundly concerned that Iran has decided to restart research and development activities related to uranium enrichment,” Straw said in a statement.

“There was no good reason why Iran should have taken this step if its intentions are truly peaceful and it wanted to resolve long standing international concerns,” he added.

Diplomacy has FAILED.

Bring on United Nations Security Council ACTION.

Mohammad Saidi, the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency during a press conference in Tehran. A defiant Iran resumed sensitive nuclear research after a two-year suspension, triggering fierce Western condemnation and heightening the risk of Tehran being hauled before the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.

Jacques Chirac actually has it RIGHT.

French President Jacques Chirac gestures as he speaks during the New Year address to foreign diplomats, at the Elysee Palace in Paris Tuesday Jan 10, 2006. Iran and North Korea will commit serious mistakes if they ignore the international community’s repeated warnings and press forward with contested nuclear programs, he said Tuesday. Chirac, in a broad address laying out French foreign policy objectives for 2006, said Iran and North Korea have a right to use nuclear energy peacefully, for energy. But the international community must ensure that agreements on nuclear security are not trampled on, he said.

Will Iran make the European Union, Israel and United States blink.

Doubtful…..

First, United Nations Security Council Referral. If this stalls, military options.

Stay tuned……….

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Confirms Resumption of Atomic Fuel Research

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Will Resume Atomic Fuel Research

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