ACLU settlement will cost $700,000

Posted on March 23, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News | Comments Off

A Tic In The Mind’s Eye and Public Figures Beware point us to how the ACLU made a half million dollars.
A settlement reached by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the state Children, Youth and Families Department over conditions within the juvenile justice system will cost the state more than $700,000… The [...]

Judge Ignores Jury, Sets Child Rapist Free

Posted on March 23, 2006 - Filed Under Activist Judges, Child Exploitation, News | Comments Off

Lost In Lima Ohio tells us about this sad story. Yet another judge lets a child rapist go unpunished.
Members of a Pawnee County jury are upset a judge gave a suspended sentence to a man convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl. The jury had recommended a 30-year prison sentence.
One upset juror drove to [...]

Quick Hits

Posted on March 23, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off

The Real Ugly American interviews Fred Barnes
Aaron Coal at “The Life and Times Blog” discusses why he believes in God. Very interesting read.
AJ Strata thinks he has elegant proposal to fix the relationship between FISA and the NSA. We think you are on the right track AJ.
Potfry has a great satire piece up….Abu Ghraib [...]

Condi Steps Up For Abdul Rahman

Posted on March 23, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off

Finally someone makes a bold statement to Afghanistan for the life of Abdul Rahman, a man facing the death penality there for converting to Christianity.
NY Times
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke this morning with President Hamid Karzai and discussed the affair “in the strongest possible terms,” said the State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack.
“She called specifically [...]

Seperation Of Church And State Kills Easter Bunny

Posted on March 23, 2006 - Filed Under Church And State, News | 2 Comments

We have all heard the arguments of public displays of religious expression on government property. We’ve heard both sides of the argument, and you know where we stand. But, regardless of which side of the argument you are on, doesn’t this take things a little too far? Talk about political correctness overload!
ST. [...]

Military Rescues Ungrateful Peace Activists

Posted on March 23, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 1 Comment

Update 2: Better late than never! Leaning Straight Up informs us that they finally say thanks. However, for most decent people that would have been the first thing they did….before the entire world commenting on how ungrateful you were. Regardless, you can’t take away the insults that were spewed.
We have been so overwhelmed [...]

Abstinence Is Harmful? News To Us

Posted on March 23, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Abortion, News | 14 Comments

Today the American Civil Liberties Union issued a press release which is featured on their website’s “Newsroom” page that is titled, “ACLU Hails Rhode Island Department of Education Efforts to Stop the Use of Harmful “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” Curriculum in Public Schools“. Only the ACLU and a liberal state like Rhode Island could find abstaining from [...]