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Are YOU, accusing him of dishonesty, hightor?

Britain Turns Offensive Speech Into a Police Matter
The nation that gave the world John Milton and his cry for the “liberty to utter” is now at the forefront of shutting speech down.

Which country's police force just called on its citizens to report offensive speech? Not libelous speech or death-threat speech, just plain old insulting speech. Speech that is merely hurtful or hateful. Which nation's cops instructed the citizenry to snitch on haters?

North Korea? China? Maybe Turkey?

It is testament to how entrenched censorship has become in 21st-century Britain that a police force can so casually call for reports about speech.

This is a country whose communications laws and public-order legislation can be, and regularly are, used to punish hateful expression. Last year The Times reported that British police are arresting nine people a day for posting "offensive messages online." In 2016, 3,300 people were detained and questioned for things they said online. In some parts of Britain the arrest rate for offensive speech has risen by nearly 900% in recent years. We Brits are sleepwalking into a police state..

This is the policing of thought. The policing of ideology.

And the story about Haley backfired and made Obama look like the corrupt jerk and traitor he is.

The crybabies are not on the Right.

...the article was intended to cast aspersions on Haley.

and made Obama look like the corrupt jerk and traitor he is.

How exactly does this make Obama look like a "corrupt jerk and traitor"

Chaos in the White House has not diminished the chances of a two-term presidency.

I'm not endorsing Roger Cohen's opinion piece but he does raise points which are worthy of consideration.

While I might prefer that the ambassador pitch a tent in Central Park

The arrest of the maker of the video that caused nothing to happen, enforcing Sharia, while the administration lied on Sunday news shows about the death of an ambassador and three Americans.

Move it somewhere the money will be appreciated - and don't plop it in the middle of a big city.

And no, I don't care if the US doesn't stay in the UN.

I'd prefer that the entire UN be moved out of the US and moved to a country where the money is needed.

You don't like to consider points that are worthy of being looked at, hightor, but you are hardly alone in this.

And this from the land of free and open discussion, all topics are on the table.

Read up on "the fog of war" sometime, especially as it relates to non-state combatants.

Why don't you read up on the way Obama handcuffed American soldiers with ridiculous and fatal rules of engagement and get back to me.

With the latest news that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy against the United States and agreed to cooperate with the Mueller investigation come additional revelations of possible illegal lobbying by a powerhouse lobbying firm and a prominent law firm. Caught up in that probe is former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig.

Craig served as White House counsel during the first year of President Obama’s administration.

According to CNN, federal prosecutors in New York are contemplating charges against Craig over whether he failed to register as a foreign agent, along with the law firm where he formerly served as a partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mueller referred an investigation of Craig and Skadden to federal prosecutors earlier this year, CNN reported.

All of this confirms that both Democrats and Republicans are involved in the dark world of foreign lobbying. And Mueller, for his part, seems to be abiding by his mandate to pursue any possible crimes his team may come across in the course of their investigation. It quashes any attempt by the Trump camp to paint the probe as merely a Democratic “witch hunt,” an argument that was preposterous from the outset.

For much of its 70-year history, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has been a go-to firm for Wall Street, representing corporations like Pfizer and DuPont in acquisitions and becoming the first law firm in history to broker $1 trillion in mergers in a year.

But when one of its former lawyers, Alex van der Zwaan, admitted this past week that he lied to the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, his guilty plea shined a light on a profitable line of business that Skadden mostly keeps quiet: its work for unsavory foreign figures and their Washington lobbyists.

Mr. van der Zwaan, 33, acknowledged that he misled investigators about his communications related to the firm’s work for the Russia-aligned former president of Ukraine, Viktor F. Yanukovych, done in tandem with the former Trump campaign aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Both were indicted on money laundering and other charges related to their work in Ukraine.