Category Archives: Law

EFF Challenges Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity in Federal Court

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a law aimed at granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president’s illegal domestic wiretapping program.
I’m glad to see that people in a position to do so are fighting for the Constitution on our behalf.

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Alaska Panel Finds Palin Abused Power

Could this mean an indictment just in time for the election?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes on political shock jocks: “verbicide”

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I’ve never heard of a psychotic who went on a murderous rampage and then claimed “PBS made me do it.”  Why is that?  Why has the word “liberal” become so hated, when by its very nature, liberal means “to [...]

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A view of the new police state from the RNC

From today’s RNC convention:

And let’s not forget the fascists at the DNC (arrested for taking pictures of democratic senators and their donors):

More about the Asa Eslocker arrest:

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Friday Funnies

As if John McCain’s “veep” announcement today isn’t intriguing enough, consider her stance on pot.
Palin said she has smoked marijuana — remember, it was legal under state law, she said, even if illegal under U.S. law.  (emphasis added)

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