ACLU Says Gonzales Response Lacking

Posted on March 2, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News | Comments Off

From an ACLU press release:
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales responded yesterday to inquiries from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the legality of the warrantless surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency, as authorized by President Bush. The American Civil Liberties Union today called the attorney general’s answers unsatisfactory, noting that they [...]

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Anti-US Taped Teacher Hires ACLU Attorney

Posted on March 2, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News | 41 Comments

Michelle Malkin tells us today about a Bush bashing highschool teacher, Jay Bennish, that came unhinged. She has the entire transcript of his America hating tirade at her site. Here is a little sample.
Who is probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth?!
Unidentified brainwashed student interjects: We are.
The United States of [...]

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The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to renew the USA Patriot Act

Posted on March 2, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 3 Comments

Via CNN, and in a surprising move to me, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to renew the Patriot Act.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to renew the USA Patriot Act, after months of pitched debate over legislation that supporters said struck a better balance between privacy rights and the government’s power to hunt [...]

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Try To Protect Yourself Or Others And We’ll Sue

Posted on March 2, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News | 7 Comments

That is the message being delivered by the ACLU in a case out of West Virginia. Welch, WV Chief of Police Robert K. Bowman and the city of Welch are being named in a suit filed by the family of Claude Green, Jr and the American Civil Liberties Union because Chief Bowman prevented a [...]

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Holy Smoke: Soviet Union ordered Pope shooting

Posted on March 2, 2006 - Filed Under Communism, News | 10 Comments

Leaders of the former Soviet Union were behind the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981, an Italian parliamentary investigative commission said in a report.
A final draft of the report, which is due to be presented to parliament later this month, was made available to Reuters on Thursday by the commission president, Senator [...]

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Samuel Alito Theocracy Alert!!!

Posted on March 2, 2006 - Filed Under News, Supreme Court | 11 Comments

Justice Alito wrote a simple thank you letter to James Dobson.
“Dear Dr. Dobson:
This is just a short note to express my heartfelt thanks to you and the entire staff of Focus on the Family for your help and support during the past few challenging months.
I would also greatly appreciate it if you would convey my [...]

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