Remind me again how Obama and the hyper-liberal Congress were going to usher in a new civil libertarian paradise where basic constitutional rights are actually acknowledged and respected?
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…because the government is crafting a new excuse to shred our online privacy rights.
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I'm a bit confused by this New York Times article on the future of the detainee facility at Guantanamo after the election: As the Bush administration enters its final months with no apparent plan to close the Guantánamo Bay camp, an extensive review of the government's military tribunal files suggests that dozens of the roughly [...]
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The District of Columbia's subway bureaucracy has announced that it will commence warrantless, suspicionless searches at subway entrances: The program is modeled after one begun three years ago in New York that has withstood legal challenges. However, experts said it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of such searches, beyond assuring the public that police [...]
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The United States has dropped war crimes charges against five more Guantanamo Bay detainees: Army Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld had been appointed the prosecutor for all five cases, but at a pretrial hearing for a sixth detainee earlier this month, he openly criticized the war-crimes trials as unfair. Vandeveld said the military was withholding exculpatory [...]
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The win: Yelling homophobic or racist names is free speech protected by the Oregon Constitution if the insults don't lead to violence, Oregon's high court has ruled. In a unanimous ruling, the Oregon Supreme Court struck down the "abusive speech" provision of the state harassment law that prohibited insulting a person publicly in a way [...]
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Care to take a wild guess who wrote this? Upon winning the election of 1828, Jackson embarked on a transformation of the political system and the Presidency. He sought to advance the cause of democracy, and made an expanded executive power his tool in that great project. To Jackson, democracy meant that the will of [...]
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Why did so many members of Congress switch their votes?
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As President, John McCain will take it as his most sacred responsibility to keep America free, safe, and strong — an abiding beacon of freedom and hope to the world. –McCain campaign website The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact … and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, [...]
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While so much attention was (rightly) focused on the outrageous proposal in the District of Columbia to initiate a patently unconstitutional "papers please" vehicle checkpoint regime, another just-as-patently unconstitutional display (no pun intended) of police power occured here in New York City: New York City police detectives and Secret Service agents briefly detained and questioned [...]
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