A Constitutionally Protected Right to Market Pornography to Children?
Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Child Exploitation, News | 15 Comments
A federal district judge has recently ruled that the Children’s Online Protection Act is an unconstitutional suppression of free speech. The law requires porn site operators to verify that patrons are 18 years old before giving them access to pornography. The lawsuit, brought by the ACLU on behalf of several sexual health sites and salon.com, [...]
Read More..>>Edwards Will Not Be ‘Suspending’ His Presidential Campaign
Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under News | Comments Off
Democrat Presidential Hopeful John Edwards in a press conference with his wife Elizabeth, has announced that he will NOT be suspending his campaign as Elizabeth continues treatments for cancer in her bones (specifically a rib on the right side). The announcement was made from Chapel Hill, NC at about 12:22 pm EDT Thursday.
It was announced [...]
The ACLU will Love this!
Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
We read:
“Indiana’s bright blue “In God We Trust” license plates may have just begun to hit the streets, but the plan behind them was born in last year’s legislature. The law creating the plate was sponsored by Rep. Woody Burton, R-Greenville, a conservative member of the House who has supported a state constitutional [...]
North Carolina City Stands up to ACLU
Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 12 Comments
3-21-2007
CitizenLink.com
Officials in Thomasville, N.C., voted 6-1 Monday to ignore threats from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and allow prayer at city-council meetings.
Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), provided the council with a proposed policy in compliance with the U.S. Constitution.
“It’s amazing that, in a country founded on religious liberty, the [...]
ACLU Pushes To Stop All Prayer By Local Louisiana School Board; Thomas More Law Center Submits Brief In Opposition
Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 1 Comment
March 21, 2007
ANN ARBOR, MI (christiansunite.com) –
A local Louisiana school board continued to battle the ACLU’s efforts to ban its 30 year practice of opening its meetings with an invocation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. In 2005, a federal district court judge sided with the ACLU and banned all school board prayers. The judge’s [...]
House OKs subpoenas for top Bush aides
Posted on March 21, 2007 - Filed Under News, Politics As Usual | 5 Comments
Endless hearings and subpoenas is what I predicted…
From the AP:
A House panel on Wednesday approved subpoenas forPresident Bush’s political adviser, Karl Rove and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
By voice vote, the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law decided to compel the [...]
Gore Gets Smacked Down By Texas Congressman
Posted on March 21, 2007 - Filed Under Global Warming, News, Politics As Usual | 6 Comments
Congressman Barton of Texas, ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, took former VP Chicken Little to the mat over his latest recommendations for stemming the tide of global warming. Congressman Barton told the former VP, “You just gave us an idea for a straight CO2 freeze, if I heard you correctly. [...]
Read More..>>Victory for Free Expression at San Francisco State University
Posted on March 21, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 6 Comments
No Punishment for Stepping on Hamas, Hezbollah Flags:
“In a crucial victory for free expression, San Francisco State University (SFSU) announced yesterday that its College Republicans will face no punishment for hosting an anti-terrorism rally at which participants stepped on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags. SFSU’s decision comes after months of pressure from the Foundation for [...]
That good ol’ double standard again
Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 2 Comments
AutoAdmit Untouchable?
There is an extraordinary site called AutoAdmit that has up every sort of abuse you can imagine. It refers for instance to “Kike sluts” (an abusive term for Jewish women).
It is a discussion board for law students, much used, apparently, by students at some Ivy League schools. According [...]
ADF attorney Mike Johnson to debate ACLU President Nadine Strossen on pornography
Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Child Exploitation, News | Comments Off
Susquehanna University hosts debate on government regulation of sexually-explicit materials to prevent exposure to minors
WHO: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson
WHAT: “Bare it or Bar It: Should the Government Regulate Adult Pornography to Prevent Exposure to Minors?†debate with ACLU President Nadine Strossen
WHEN: Wednesday, March 21, 8 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. EDT
WHERE: [...]
Bill would halt legal fees for ACLU in establishment cases
Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 3 Comments
Mar 19, 2007
Dustin McNab
WASHINGTON (BP)–
It’s not fair for taxpayers to pay the legal bills for organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), says Sen. Sam Brownback.
The Kansas Republican has reintroduced the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA), which seeks to change how attorneys’ fees are granted in cases involving the Establishment Clause of [...]
Hazleton update
Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
Immigration status complex, ACLU expert says
“Federal immigration law is so complex that it can take years for the government to determine whether a person is in the country legally or illegally, an expert witness testified yesterday in the trial over Hazleton’s crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration lawyer and co-author of a 20-volume [...]
Australia’s “hurricane” and New Orleans
Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
Australia had a big "hurricane" (We call them "cyclones") and flooding not long after the New Orleans event. The town affected (Innisfail, my birthplace) was quite small so not comparable to NO in size. What was VERY different was the self-help response from the people living there. Contrast the report below with the endless whining [...]
Read More..>>Gathering of Eagles After Action Report
Posted on March 19, 2007 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 12 Comments
I was proud to have flown to the capital Friday to represent STACLU and CourtZero at the Gathering of Eagles this weekend in Washington, D.C. As most of you know, the stated purpose of GOE was to stand guard at memorials in D.C., particularly the Vietnam War Memorial during “the anti-war” (and anti-a very [...]
Read More..>>Must not Joke about Muslims
Posted on March 19, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 5 Comments
We read:
“ORLANDO, FL: A bus driver was fired after a Muslim couple complained that he insulted members of their religion over the loudspeaker.
The driver, whose name was not released, was fired Thursday after Hilal Isler of upstate New York said she and her husband, Volkan Isler, were offended. The Turkish-American couple say he launched [...]
