Thursday’s Links

Philadelphia Inquirer: A federal jury Wednesday decided that Philadelphia violated the Boy Scouts' First Amendment rights by using the organization's anti-gay policy as a reason to evict them from their city-owned offices near Logan Square.

Omitted from the article (and most MSM coverage): The land was unused until the city of Philadelphia asked the Boy Scouts in 1929 to take it over, develop it. The agreement was that the Boy Scouts would only be charged for maintaining the property. All improvements, buildings etc, were done and built at Boy Scouts' expense over the years. The city earns money from leasing the space in the building bought and paid for by the Boy Scouts.

WorldNetDaily: Majority Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today blocked one avenue of inquiry into the White House's attempt to secure victory for two incumbent Senate candidates by offering a job to their chief opponent in exchange for exiting the race....

Republicans on the Judiciary Committee had filed a resolution that sought information about the role the Justice Department may have played in the offers to Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., and Andrew Romanoff, the former speaker of the Colorado House....

Federal officials are barred from offering anything of value, such as a job, in exchange for a partisan political decision, such as bowing out of a campaign for office.

FoxNews: Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials...

“Every night we’re getting beaten like a pinata at a birthday party by drug, alien smugglers," a second federal agent told Fox News by e-mail. "The danger is out there, with all the weapons being found coming northbound…. someone needs to know about this!”

The agents blame part of their plight on new policies from Washington, claiming it has put a majority of the U.S. agents on the border itself. One agent compared it to a short-yardage defense in football, explaining that once the smugglers and drug-runners break through the front line, they're home free.

USA Today: This is news because while SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan banned the military from Harvard, she gleefully accepted money from Saudi Arabia.

Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.

The men, who are between 30 and 40 years old, and three of the women, who are under the age of 30, were sentenced to an unspecified number of lashes and one or two year prison terms each....

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam that prohibits unrelated men and women from mingling.

YouTube: Florida Senator George LeMieux on Obama’s inaction…

Wall Street Journal: Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill.

Posted by Danny Carlton at June 24, 2010 7:15 AM