ACLU sues Murray schools over student expelled for poem
Posted on March 31, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU | 2 Comments
I keep getting emails about this one. I’ve been meaning to post about it.
ROME, GA (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Murray County schools for expelling an eighth-grader for writing a poem on school violence.
The student, whose name was not released, was suspended and expelled [...]
A History Lesson On The ACLU Part 2
Posted on March 31, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Communism, History | 1 Comment
A History Lesson On The ACLU Part 2
Yesterday I covered a brief history of the ACLU as reported in the Congressional record of September 20, 1961. Today I will take it a little further. This will be an ongoing theme for a while.
Dr. Eason Monroe, executive director of the Southern California Chapter of the [...]
Remembering Terri Schiavo
Posted on March 31, 2006 - Filed Under Euthanasia, News | Comments Off
WND has a very good article up today.
One year after the death of Terri Schiavo, her family who fought for seven years in court to keep her alive is not giving up its battle against euthanasia.
Parents Robert and Mary Schindler, along with brother Bobby Schindler and sister Suzanne Vitadamo have developed two separate organizations devoted [...]
ACLU’s Hypocritical Approach To Church And State
Posted on March 30, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Church And State, News, War On Terror | 7 Comments
Liberals proudly beam about how the ACLU keeps America safe from becoming a theocracy by dilegently keeping “church and state” seperated through endless lawsuits. I don’t believe that the founders of our country meant for the First Amendment to be bent to the shape the ACLU has put it into, but there is definitely [...]
Read More..>>Scalia’s Message To The Media
Posted on March 30, 2006 - Filed Under News | 4 Comments
The Boston Herald are bragging they were right about Scalia’s sign language to them the other day, and come out with the photo.
Ronald A. Cass at Real Clear Politics sums up my feelings on the topic better than I word them.
Scalia’s gesture said, “I’ve got strong views and strong religious beliefs, but as [...]
ACLU to Appeal Pro-Life License Plates in Tennessee
Posted on March 30, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Abortion, Church And State, News | Comments Off
Hat tip: Pirate’s Cove and Public Figures Beware
ViaTenessean
Despite a federal appeals court ruling this month that lets Tennessee put “Choose Life” on license plates, it isn’t clear when — or even if — the tags will ever hit the road.
The American Civil Liberties Union is likely to appeal to the full panel of the 6th [...]
U.S. Journalist Jill Carroll Released
Posted on March 30, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off
Good news to wake up to this morning via FOX
Kidnapped U.S. reporter Jill Carroll has been released after nearly three months in captivity, Iraq police and the leader of the Islamic Party said Thursday. Her editor said she was in good condition.
“She was released this morning, she’s talked to her father and she’s fine,” said [...]
A History Lesson On The ACLU Part 1
Posted on March 30, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, History, News | Comments Off
A History Lesson On The ACLU Part 1
Originally appeared on Gribbit’s Word April 14, 2005
I researched the Congressional Record dated Wednesday, September 20, 1961. Very important information relating to the ACLU and it’s Communist/Socialist ambitions.
Dr. Fredrick Schwartz, executive director of the International Christian Anticommunism Crusade, “Communist Legal Subversion,” page 75, House Committee on Un-American Activities: [...]
FISA judges say Bush within law
Posted on March 29, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 2 Comments
Hat tip: AJ Strata
Via Washington Times
A panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).
The five judges testifying before the committee [...]
Black Robed Dictators At It Again
Posted on March 29, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Activist Judges, News | 1 Comment
In keeping with out long standing dislike for the Black Robed Kings By Committee, we come across this story from FoxNews.com.
Court Order May Violate First Amendment
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
By Wendy McElroy
A child custody case in Massachusetts may be placing family court procedures on a collision course with the First Amendment.
Last week, a Massachusetts family court [...]
ACLU Urges Supreme Court to Declare Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions Illegal
Posted on March 29, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 2 Comments
NY Times
As the justices of the Supreme Court took their seats Tuesday morning to hear Osama bin Laden’s former driver challenge the Bush administration’s plan to try him before a military commission, one question — perhaps the most important one — was how protective the justices would be of their jurisdiction to decide the case.
The [...]
ACLU: Gov’t to Release Abu Ghraib Photos
Posted on March 28, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | Comments Off
Via FOX News
The U.S. government has agreed to release disputed pictures showing American soldiers tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.
An American Civil Liberties Union spokeswoman said today that an agreement was reached between the ACLU and the government and was submitted to a federal judge.
Once the judge approves the deal the pictures will be [...]
A Midweek Funny
Posted on March 28, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Humor | 2 Comments
My friend Lobo found this one, but it gave me a good chuckle.
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said he has been battling the ACLU for decades, and is encouraged by the “great work” being done by such groups as the Alliance Defense Fund and Liberty Counsel. Donohue said he has discovered why the [...]
The Intolerance of the ACLU
Posted on March 28, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News, War On Terror | 1 Comment
Today’s reading assignment is at BP News written by Alan Sears
Like many civic assemblies, Oconee County, S.C., has opened council meetings with an invocation. Council member and pastor Bill Rinehart closed a meeting in October of last year with prayer by saying, “We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.”
What Rinehart [...]
Still Beating The Patriot Act Drum
Posted on March 28, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security, News, War On Terror | Comments Off
They couldn’t shut it down while it was being debated in Congress, now the ACLU is taking another approach at the Patriot Act. Their latest scare tactic is that certain provisions of the Patriot Act silences certain political speech at the border.
ACLU Condemns Government Censorship at the Borders, Says Freedom of Speech and Association [...]
