Jet Slides off Runway…Child Dies

Posted on December 8, 2005 - Filed Under News | Comments Off

via WRAL a plane landed in a snowstorm in Chicago and slid off the runway into an intersection, hitting one vehicle and pinning a second. A six year old boy has died as a result of that crash.
The Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 coming in from Baltimore was heavily damaged in the crash when it [...]

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Will Lieberman Be the Next Secretary of Defense?

Posted on December 8, 2005 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 4 Comments

NY Daily News
WASHINGTON - White House officials are telling associates they expect Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to quit early next year, once a new government is formed in Iraq, sources said yesterday.
Rumsfeld’s deputy, Gordon England, is the inside contender to replace him, but there’s also speculation that Sen. Joe Lieberman - a Democrat who ran [...]

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ACLU Sues Tenet and CIA Over Secret Prisons (VIDEO)

Posted on December 8, 2005 - Filed Under News | 7 Comments

(via Stop the ACLU)
NYT - German man sued former CIA Director George Tenet and other U.S. spy agency officials on Tuesday for wrongful imprisonment, mounting a legal challenge against one of the CIA’s most prominent tactics in Washington’s declared war on terrorism.
The suit filed by the American [...]

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Division at the ACLU

Posted on December 8, 2005 - Filed Under News | 6 Comments

Via NY Times
Since Mr. Romero stepped into the job just four days before the Sept. 11 attacks, the A.C.L.U. has been transformed. Under his watch, membership and revenues have risen sharply. The use of data to maximize contributions has become more sophisticated. Big donors have been wooed and won. At the group’s first membership conference [...]

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Operation Nativity

Posted on December 8, 2005 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Christmas, News | 1 Comment

Every year we watch as the secularization of the birth of Christ happens around us. This year people are being preemptive, and its been quite successful. Kevin McCullough has started a campaign to send the ACLU Merry Christmas cards. Another effort is out there as well called Operation Nativity.
Dr. Charles Nestor, director [...]

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