TEXAS – A Texas father who discovered a man raping  his five-year-old daughter and beat him to death with his bare hands will not be  charged with homicide under state law.
A Lavaca County grand jury decided not to  press charges against the 23-year-old father in the June 9th death of Jesus Mora  Flores, 47, who was killed inside a remote shack after he was caught molesting  the young girl.

Heather McMinn, district attorney for Guadalupe, Gonzales and Lavaca Counties,  speaks at a news conference with Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon, second from  right, and V’anne Huger, right, attorney for the father.

Under Texas state law, deadly force is  authorized and indeed, justified in order to stop an aggravated sexual assault  and coupled with the fact that the harrowing 911 calls made by the father back  claims he even tried to save the pedophile’s life led to the grand jury’s  decision. (more…)

Via Shadi Hamid, is the Director of Research at the Brookings Institute’s Doha Center:

Newspaper also claims that son of MB leader threatened Obama w- release of "papers" revealing his MB membership: https://t.co/x4lV2JdS91

— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) September 1, 2013

If you missed it, "liberal" Egyptian newspaper has front page headline claiming Obama as full-on member of Muslim Brotherhood international.

— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) September 1, 2013

In related news – the Eyptian interim government is reconsidering going back to the ban on the Muslim Brotherhood due to their entrenched terrorism.    It should not be forgotten the Brotherhood killed former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat which was the final straw the last time they were an allowed political entity.

Seriously, we have received a number of emails from followers of The Conservative Tree House who are telling us that they receive the subject message whenever they try to post a comment here.  In most cases, these folks were able to comment here for months, but now are unable to do so.  Here’s the latest email:

I’m just dropping by to wish you all an awesome day and to thank each of you for all you do.  For some reason, I still can not comment.  I get a wordpress error that says “sorry. this comment can not be posted.”  I don’t know what further to try, so I guess I’ll ride it out.  It’s been like this for months now.  Anyway….I have to go to work soon, but I just wanted to touch base and let you all know I’m still perched on my branch, reading regularly, but muted by wordpress!!

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Thanks to Stella I was able to download and read Jack Cashill’s  book about the Zimmerman case this past weekend.   I very much enjoyed his presentation and found the book to be a solid, fact based, presentation.   Perhaps later in the week I’ll get around to writing a review about it – but suffice to say it’s a soup-to-nuts delivery of the entire case.    A very good read – pulling together a very complex dynamic into digestible form.
We talked to Mr. Cashill several times in the lead up to the trial as he was deep in research and filled with inquiry about how we, as a group, discovered so much information.  Mr. Cashill’s initial contact was based on all the prior research assembled here by all of you.  As a consequence he found the research approach fascinating.  Y’all should feel really proud of that.  It seems from the reading he also followed along thereafter.
As noted by some comments, and inquiry over the weekend, there are many aspects of the Zimmerman case -mostly side issues- we are still researching and putting together.   We have roughly 33 questions we are seeking to answer through FOIA submissions both relating to Jacksonville SAO and the prosecution, as well as Miami-Dade. (more…)

I think it is prudent to go back to June 2011 and remind everyone that President Obama took us to war in Libya without congress.   He even stayed in the conflict after his own Office Of Legal Counsel advised him he was violating constitutional law:

(June 2011 – New York Times)  President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.  (link)

(Via Politico)  Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said if the Assad regime in Syria “were to be foolish enough to attack yet again and to do something in the meantime,” President Barack Obama “knows he has the power” to attack unilaterally and would likely “move very, very rapidly” — but “he feels we are stronger” moving with congressional authorization. (more…)

Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with President Obama, and his decision to attack Syria as punishment for chemical weapon use, it is prudent, and we are personally requesting, for all of us, regardless of disposition, to pause and pray for the safety of our nation’s soldiers who will be tasked to carry out the command.

Like many, perhaps most, I do not support the approach – Nor do I think it is in our nations best interests. However, regardless of my disposition I am certain that our military will execute their objectives with unparalleled professionalism and respect for duty.

We should not be quiet; yet we should not bitch and moan without purpose.

We should fight like hell to have OUR voices heard by our representatives; and we should demand those who we have elected to hold the Executive Branch to account…..

…. and then, in the final analysis, if our voice is overruled – regardless of our frustration or angst, we should present ourselves on bended knee and pray for those who ultimately are charged with carrying out the decisions of our national leadership.

It is from the diligence of our brave military we are able to rail, protest, and demand voice.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

There was seldom a day that the arrival of the mail didn’t bring magazines to our house. I suppose our parents subscribed to at least twenty or twenty-five — farm magazines, news magazines, church magazines, periodicals like the Reader’s Digest and Saturday Evening Post, and “the world out there” magazines like Arizona Highways, Naval Proceedings, and the National Geographic.
Most of the farm periodicals had pages reserved for the reading skills and interests of the young people on the farm. On those pages there would also be ads for items like this stamp album which was ordered for me when I was about eleven or twelve.
The penciled-in price in the front of the book indicates the 125-page hardcover album cost $1.10. Tucked within its pages is one of the envelopes in which I received a batch of 12-20 stamps every couple of weeks (which cost 10 cents per envelope). This single envelope still has 15 stamps from the Argentine Republic that never got pasted in place (more…)