Supreme Court Skips 4th, Keeps Catch-22

"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,...

Verizon Gets into Censoring Text Messages

You'd think Verizon would want to stay as far away from this as they could but..."Verizon Reverses Course on Abortion Text-Messaging: "If you want to see what the Internet will look like in a few years without net neutrality, you need look no further than this week's stories...

Police harass with impunity

My name is Shawn Hansen and the reason I am writing this letter is because Monday night October 9, 2006 my wife and I were pulled over by the Wooster Police Department after they had followed us for a good 5-10 minutes. When they pulled us over they asked my wife for her...

Double Speak and the War on Terrorism - Democratic Party

Timothy Lynch, director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, has written an article examining the use of double speak, and new vocabulary that has been created during the War on Terror.