Quiet Revolutions
Today the rule of law, the checks and balances and the rights reserved in the Bill of Rights were damaged as the FISA act was once again altered and retroactive immunity was authorized for law breaking...
View ArticleI think I understand the FISA bill. Do I?
A recent claim claim by Lawrence Lessig, a strong Civil Libertarian, made me stop and think. [Obama's] vote for the FISA compromise is thus not a vote for immunity. It is a vote that reflects the...
View ArticleCommander in Chief of all the American people?
On Thursday, I noticed something on The Verdict that really bothered me. The next day, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo commented on the same general issue, though he did not mention the particular...
View ArticleOn Sex and Evolution and Politics
And now for something completely different... Usually I write in my Vox Libertas diaries about politics, about the Rule of Law, the Constitution, the behavior of our elected leaders and the dangers...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to "get FISA right"?
Senator Feingold has said that he’s going to give the Administration "a few more weeks" to come up with a bill to roll back the FISA amendments, introduce his own bill if they don’t. He's also...
View ArticleRepublicans, Republicanism and the Republic
The news last week was that only 20-30% of Americans are willing to identify themselves as "Republicans". When John Dvorak's blog polled its users as to their politics and party affiliation and asked...
View ArticleRe: Jim, I need your voice on health care--Sorry, sir
Mr. President, It is with great sadness and regret that I must decline your emailed request. I do this with intimate and personal knowledge of how important this legislation is. I am a computer...
View ArticleFix the USA PATRIOT Act
In the last couple of weeks very important things have been going on in the realm of Civil Liberties, and our concern for issues like Health Care, Iran, Afghanistan and the Chicago bid for the Olympics...
View ArticleJoin us live blogging the USA PATRIOT Act markup
This morning beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be marking up S.1692, USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2009 (spnsors: Leahy, Feinstein, Cardin, Whitehouse,...
View ArticleGet FISA Right's Open Letter to President Obama
The December 31 deadline for reauthorizing three key clauses of the Patriot Act — and the possibility of introducing reforms in the process — is fast approaching. In response, Get FISA Right has put...
View ArticleOf Persons, Corporations, Money and Speech
These are the times that try men's souls. On the one hand we have the Supreme Court of the United States empowering corporations at a time when they already come far too close to owning our...
View ArticleText and Subtext
Today we celebrate not the 234th anniversary of the birth of this nation, of our declaration of independence—that was two days ago on July the 2nd, the date that the Continental Congress unanimously...
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