Federal intervention in this case represents a blatant act of government intimidation and will have a chilling effect on expression of the first amendment rights of any citizen to protest or speak out against their government.

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

The people of New Orleans deserve to know what's going on and they deserve to know their homes will be protected while the court figures this out.

We, in fact, will be, hopefully, in a constructive way pressing the government to start to act and develop and implement these recommendations.

I very much would welcome and do welcome the transparency. To have the Chinese government officially say that there is a 17.7 percent increase in their defense spending next year, I think is a welcome addition to the knowledge that the world can then assess as to the amount of money that the Chinese government is spending on defense.

...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.