I understand your meaning, now. If that's all they have on him, then they have zero chance of imposing nonjudicial punishment. Intent is key to cases like this...they have to prove he intended to deceive with respect to giving the wrong date for a medical appointment (sometimes people just forget the right date). Insofar as the "order" that concerns the medical records of his son, there's not enough detail for me to make a call there. I can't imagine who would've been "ordering" him to provide information on his son that is protected under the Privacy Act. If this is all they have, he should refuse nonjudicial punishment (that's his right) and demand courts-martial.

Sorry...I don't understand your point about "...drag to follow the rules." What "rules" are you referring to?

I'm afraid that's where it's headed. We have a voting majority that thinks government creates "stuff" by decree, and don't realize government goodies come from taxes, and those are collected from people who work for a living (NOT the 47%-ers, BTW). These people received government-approved educations. They don't know squat about US history, have never read the Constitution, and think the Founding Fathers are a group of men their mothers told them could be their father. They think Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and Lincoln are currency units. They know zip about how government raises money. Well, they've got a big awakening coming, when the working half runs out of money, or goes on the dole itself.

What's really whacky is that the same guy who's demanding Romney's TAX RETURNS (for as far back as the Democrat Machine wishes) is reluctant to release his transcripts, his thesis, heck...even his marriage license. A major complaint of presidential historians is the total absence of original Obama source documents. We know more about Joe the Plumber than Obama.

About the only people I know of who might be "... scared of the policies proposed by the Republican held house, and really quaking if those idiots take over the Senate..." are those who fear the gravy train going around the bend without them. The prospect of having to actually work for a living, as opposed to receiving one in the form of a monthly government handout, intimidates them. I'm tired of footing the bill to support my family and theirs, too.

Perhaps if the Jesse Jackson / Al Sharpton blacks who complain so much about the *WORD* would stop throwing it around with such abandon, the rest of the world would forget it and quit using it , too. Just a thought...

We've heard of three men who shielded girlfriends with their bodies and, ultimately, their lives. These are only the ones we hear about, simply because they died. How many other men (including husbands, by the way) did the same thing but are unsung, simply because they lived? And, how many women attempted to shield male companions the same way? I think we know the answer there. I'm not putting women down...I'm pointing out that there are some things that are just wired into (most) men genetically, and crisis brings it to the fore. Just as I'm sure there was plenty of male heroics on the Concordia--it just wasn't PC to report it. Hektor//Kabul Afghanistan

Our land is in such dismal condition today because Christians have walked in the ways of Godlessness and we're reaping the reward. We're expected to be salt, and have chosen to lose our "saltiness." The Bible says salt without savor is fit only to thrown out and trodden underfoot. Only OUR repentance can turn things around...prayer, fasting, and weeping over our cowardice and unfaithfulness. That's what God wants. Hektor / Kabul, Afghanistan

Mr. Barber...Thanks for the 2 Chr 7.14 reference. How true. One observation, though...that cry from God is directed at His people. For us, that mean's professing Christians. God's message today, I think, is that the Church needs to "...humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways..." The Godless can't be expected to be otherwise than lost, confused, and living in darkness. Those who call upon the Name of the Lord are the ones who need to remember Who bought them and turn from wickedness, if we want God's blessing once more. OUR repentance is what is needed...when that happens, the rest will fall into place (i.e., revival and an outpouring of God's Grace and Holy Spirit). [More]

"Yet, lo and behold, the argument prevailed with a majority of justices." The arugment, of course, being that liberals (or whatever they call themselves these days) can't use the Commerce Clause to compel participation in something one opposes. My point, though, is that it wasn't a MAJORITY of the justices. Since the liberal wing went along with Roberts, they must accept this, too. It's a certainty the dissenting conservative justices all agree, as well. To me, that's unanimity, not a majority.