"“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” – Aldous Huxley Depending on your personal level of concern with online privacy, the Obama/Biden website change.gov...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, public interest advocacy org for rights in the digital age, has filed a brief in Federal Court challenging the Constitutionality of the telecom immunity bill. EFF is arguing there is no Constitutional authority for giving authority to...
• Barack was right about checking the tires. So why is he springing a leak?• Because he'd rather compromise than stand up and fight. As the presidential race enters the critical...
• Barack ignored key factor: voters at home decide elections on bread-and-butter issues -- not on bread and circuses• Europeans, their leaders, and media aren't 'deciders' Presumptuous and...
Over at the Washington Post, the "Fixster" blogger is asking his usual Friday question: Who won the week? Here at nowpublic.com, the answer is sharp-edged: Hillary Rodham Clinton, shot-chugging...
According to the Declaration of Independance: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are...
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"Again the Democrats fold like lawn chairs. How can they let George Bush beat and out smart them on every aspect of the war on terror? They have been trying to convince everyone that Bush is an evil dumb man, but he...
to hold Sen John McCain's feet to the fire to see if he will back up his past claims that the U.S. should not torture? Or his claims that torture is ineffective?One Citizen's OpinionbyLee Dunkelberg
President Boy...
"The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear a case to stop President Bush’s domestic warrantless wiretapping, and let stand a 2-1 Appeals Court ruling that threw out the case on a technicality—a catch-22.x20 The ACLU brought the case on behalf of some journalists,...
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Administration officials are complaining about House Democrats stalling legislation that would grant immunity to any telecommunications carrier that assisted with its domestic spying program. Without that immunity cloak, the White House says, telecoms will hesitate to...
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The Supreme Court today turned aside a legal challenge to the Administration's warrantless wiretaps, declining to review a lower court decision dismissing the case because the names of those being spied on are secret. "The Court's decision allows the government to avoid...
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The U.S. Senate, on August 3, 2007, followed by the House of Representatives, on August 4, approved the expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
A link to the FISA states:...
An appeal to Rep. Michael Burgess (D-TX26th) - If someone breaks the law, you "tough on crime" types say, "Tough, should have known better".That is, unless it is one of your own. In that case, as has been show so many times in the Bush Regime, pardons, immunities, and...
It's a little harder to eavesdrop on a tapped phone line when it's been disconnected. It seems a few FBI slackers have been forgetting to pay their phone bills and losing wiretap lines as a result. Maybe they should...
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No matter the opinion on the subject, I think it is important for this subject to be brought before the courts. Just a blurb in the news today, but very important to our constitutional rights."WASHINGTON - In federal courts and on Capitol Hill, challenges are brewing to a key...
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