ACLU join Planed Parenthood in fight against New York Health care Reform
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Abortion, News | 8 Comments
Cross Posted from Revealing the ACLU: I found the following, somewhat odd, press release on the ACLU’s website this evening.
Proposed closings, downsizings and consolidations of New York hospitals recommended by a state commission today could endanger community access to reproductive health services, women’s health advocates warned today.
The Reproductive Rights Project of the New York Civil [...]
Judge Strikes President’s Authority To Designate Terrorist Groups
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Activist Judges, News, War On Terror | 11 Comments
AP
A federal judge has ruled that a portion of a post-Sept. 11 executive order allowing President Bush to create a list of specially designated global terrorist groups is unconstitutionally vague.
U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins, in a Nov. 21 ruling released Tuesday, struck down the provision and enjoined the government from blocking the assets of two [...]
Judge Rules That Paper Money Is Unfair To The Blind
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under News | 8 Comments
The person that sent this tip noted that this is a Clinton appointee. Judge Robertson is the same judge who resigned without explanantion from the FISA Court one year ago. They seemed to think this was “unreal”, but I don’t really see that it is that big of a deal. The government [...]
Read More..>>A Fallen Hero Is Honored
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off
Kim Priestap and her husband Steve received some very sad news Thanksgiving evening. Steve’s cousin, Army Sgt.1st Class James Priestap, was shot and killed by a terrorist sniper while working at a checkpoint near Baghdad. He was wearing body armor, but he hit was in the shoulder, and the bullet went into his heart killing [...]
Read More..>>Alcee Hastings Drops Bid For Chair Intel Committee
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment
Hat tip: Hot Air via The State:
Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., will not be the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a Democratic aide confirmed Tuesday as Hastings left a private meeting with Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Still unclear was whether Pelosi intends to surprise lawmakers by tapping the panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Jane Harman of [...]
An Oak Leaf’s Note Pad
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under War On Terror | Comments Off
Starting early last week, I have been in a number of formal and informal staff meetings in a number of areas. Some of the “raw” personal (not operational) notes that I jotted down follow. They give you some insight as to where we would hope we are, where we hope have been and where we [...]
Read More..>>City of Chicago: “Christianity is a Cancer on the Soul of the City and We Will Have it Out!”
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 4 Comments
The Associated Press is reporting that the City of Chicago has threatened the organizers of an annual German festival, Christkindlmarket, over one of their sponsors. This sponsor, according to the City of Chicago, would be “insensitive to the many people of different faiths… [and] contrary to acceptable advertising standards…”
Was this sponsor the KKK? The World [...]
The Forbidden Mojave Desert Cross
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Activist Judges, Church And State | 9 Comments
I was in Las Vegas at the end of September and called into Jay at his e-radio show on WideAwakesRadio. I mentioned that I was going to go searching in the Mojave Desert to find a small cross that I’d read about that had been ordered removed by a federal judge after the ACLU [...]
Read More..>>ACLU Loses on “Choose Life” Plate in TN
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, Abortion, News | 3 Comments
Independent Conservative sends the good news that the ACLU loses one in Tennessee.
NASHVILLE - Tennessee drivers wanting a “Choose Life” anti-abortion license plate will now be able to get one at county clerk offices beginning Friday.
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The ACLU of Tennessee challenged the license plates on free speech grounds, but eventually lost its case.
Sixteen states, including Tennessee, [...]
The Pope Calls For Brotherhood In Turkey
Posted on November 28, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 2 Comments
breitbart
He began his first visit to a Muslim country Tuesday with a message of dialogue and “brotherhood” between faiths, and Turkey’s chief Islamic cleric said at a joint appearance that growing “Islamophobia” hurts all Muslims…
… The pope is expected to call for greater rights and protections for Christian minorities in the Muslim world, including the [...]
