May 28, 2008 – 10:07 pm
This story is 5 days old, but, I was popping in to the ACLU website, trying to see if I could remember some story I heard on the radio this morning about something happeing in the NC legislature that would send the ACLU in to a hissy fit, and this was front page for them […]
May 22, 2008 – 8:37 am
Nice to know that many in the “reality based community,” people charged with an oath that begins, for both the House and the Senate, with I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith […]
March 28, 2008 – 7:36 am
Ready to be sickened? DOVER – The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the city yesterday over an ordinance that restricts where sex offenders can live, in a test case that could have consequences for communities across the state. Enacted in October 2005, Dover city code 131-20 blocks sex offenders who must register […]
February 19, 2008 – 2:57 pm
Via Rusty at The Jawa Report (through al Reuters) The administration abandoned the program about a year ago, putting it under the surveillance court that Congress created more than 30 years ago. The high court’s action means that Bush will be able to disregard whatever legislative eavesdropping restrictions Congress adopts as there will be no […]
December 9, 2007 – 4:46 pm
October 11, 2007 – 8:24 am
From the official blogburst at Stop the ACLU The video above is from ADF, and is practically a commercial for them, but I don’t see anything wrong with that at all. I urge you to go join and donate! By the way, Kender inspired this post. He wanted to write the blogburst, but […]
October 2, 2007 – 1:50 pm
I’m wondering where the ACLU is hiding. There is religion in our schools! Public schools increasingly are being forced to grapple with how to accommodate Muslim students’ needs, during Ramadan and throughout the school year, and some cases have spurred community debate. Generally, he (Tom Hutton, a lawyer with the National School Boards Association) said, "schools […]
September 4, 2007 – 8:46 am
NOW it is the start of a new work week. Harry Reid has said all is lost, so it is time to take it down a notch, get in the wrong frame of mind for the work week, be prepared to do your least and worst, or at least your bare minimum. For those […]
September 1, 2007 – 7:39 am
Funny little critters Criticizing Congress for expanding the president’s authority to conduct surveillance operations, a leading civil liberties group said the warrant requirement should be reinstituted. Lamenting that before Congress recessed in August it passed the Protect America Act, Caroline Fredrickson, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office, said Congress passed "legislation […]
June 6, 2007 – 7:54 pm
Shamefull WASHINGTON, June 5 — A day after two military judges ruled against the Bush administration’s system for trying terrorism detainees, Democrats seized on the rulings on Tuesday as evidence that Congress should restore the right of those held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detentions. Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is […]