Civil Liberties
An NSA agent listens into a cell phone call between parties in Great Britain and Iran. This is what he hears…All materials and personnel are in place. We await further orders.Immediately, the party in Great Britain receives a return call…Begin operations in 2 hours. All primary targets are to be destroyed.Now, the NSA monitor detects…
On the spot… after a trial… whatever. I don’t think a 5% reduction is worth taking the step of granting a police officer with a tube the power of judge, jury, and executioner. If we’re serious about curtailing drunk driving, let’s not revoke licenses at all, or at least without multiple warnings (unless death or…
Utilitarian or libertarian? Choose your side, with respect to this Bruce Landis article in today’s
This report from Fox News seems worthy of a raised eyebrow or two… The Council on American Islamic Relations held a symposium at the National Press Club in Washington Tuesday. The Washington Times reports CAIR National Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed characterized Bush administration policies as driven by fear, and is irrational and divisive. All this…
In a letter to the editor in Saturday’s Projo, Reverend Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, defended his organization’s position in favor of government censorship of print media. Americans United has filed an IRS complaint against the Diocese of Providence for publishing Bishop Thomas Tobin’s criticism of Rudolph…
According to a Mike McKinney entry on yesterday’s 7-to-7 blog, a group called Americans United for Separation of Church and State has called for an Internal Revenue Service investigation of the Diocese of Providence because of Bishop Thomas Tobin’s letter published in the Rhode Island Catholic criticizing Republican Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani’s position on the…
One of these things is not like the others… 1647: Rhode Island adopts its first code of laws. In stark contrast to codes enacted in colonies like Maryland or Massachusetts around the same time, the code imposes no penalties for “blasphemy” or uttering “any reproachful words or speeches”. One of these things just doesn’t belong……
Whether you’re left, right or independent, PAY ATTENTION: Earlier this year, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) rejected a postal rate increase plan offered by the U.S. Postal Service. Instead they opted to implement a complicated plan submitted by media giant Time Warner. (Click here for a timeline) Under the original plan, all publishers would have…
Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real Iron and coal Chromium Steel And we’re…
What happens when young co-eds “fight the power” and win a loosening of on-campus speech codes? Why, they seek to reimpose them when they become “the power.” As Greg Lukianoff and Will Creeley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) explain in a campus free speech expose in today’s Providence Phoenix (Via N4N):…
