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No Tax Money for GA Public School Bible Classes

No Tax Money for GA Public School Bible Classes

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The Georgia State Senate has passed two pieces of legislation that pose a serious threat to the separation of church and state. One would create state-funded Bible classes in Georgia public schools. The second would allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed by county governments. Both bills are on Governor Sonny Perdue’s desk, and he is contemplating whether to sign them. Take action now and demand that Governor Perdue defend the Constitution and Georgia’s citizens from these attacks on the…

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Thanks only to 10 Senators

Thanks only to 10 Senators

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For the record – and I will remember this – these are the only Senators who stood up for my civil liberties by voting against the renewal of the USA Patriot Act. I thank you: Russ Feingold (D-WI) Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Robert Byrd (D-WV) Tom Harkin (D-IA) Ron Wyden (D-OR) Daniel Akaka (D-HI) Patty Murray (D-WA) Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Carl Levin (D-MI) Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Boo-hiss to all the Republicans, and: Obama (D-IL) Clinton (D-NY) Kerry (D-MA) Kennedy (D-MA) Biden…

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A view on NSA Spying

A view on NSA Spying

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The New York Review of Books: ON NSA SPYING: A LETTER TO CONGRESS Vol 52, no 2, Feb. 9 2006 A collection of constitutional law scholars and former government officials published this letter to Congress in the New York Review of Books. I would love to post the whole thing, but I don’t want to run afoul of their permissions rules. The administration’s argument that the 2001 AUMF authorization of the use of force somehow grants permission for the NSA…

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2 Groups to Sue on Eavesdropping

2 Groups to Sue on Eavesdropping

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Two Groups Planning to Sue Over Federal Eavesdropping – New York Times The two lawsuits, which are being filed separately by the American Civil Liberties Union in Federal District Court in Detroit and the Center for Constitutional Rights in Federal District Court in Manhattan, are the first major court challenges to the eavesdropping program. Both groups are seeking to have the courts order an immediate end to the program, which the groups say is illegal and unconstitutional. The Bush administration…

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By their words

By their words

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“Not that I have anything against lawyers. Looking around the room, I’d guess that a year ago, about half of you were down in Florida.” Dick Cheney, Nov 2001, to The Federalist Society “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush, speech at a Washington dinner, 3/2001 “I am the federal government. I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job…

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Unable to Mourn, Unable to Care

Unable to Mourn, Unable to Care

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Now that more than two thousand of our side, and who knows, really, how many thousands of the other side (the ones who start counting seem to end up dead fairly often), it’s a good time to review a basic lack in the President, who was put into office through the judicial activism he claims to deplore. This President, simply, doesn’t care. Bush stole the 2004 election – E L Doctorow’s statement Ringing even more truthfully today than it did…

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