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• CAP Report Calls for Postponement of Gitmo Closure

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 770
  You are now leaving... maybe not (photo by Paul Keller) There is perhaps no organization in Washington with a closer relationship to the White House than the Center for American Progress. Its President and CEO, John Podesta, co-chaired President Obama’s transition team, and dozens of former staffers have taken ...
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• The Difference between Kevorkian and Obama…NOTHING!

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 540
  Hidden in Plain View: Obama’s Radical Pro-Abortion Agenda By Dave Andrusko As I listened to NRLC President Dr. Wanda Franz open NRLC 2008, I couldn’t help but recall the very different message I heard from pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama when I watched a video of the presumptive Democratic presidential ...
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• Lesbian Date Almost Cancels Alabama Prom

  
  Lemondrop.com — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Dating & Love , News So, picture this: Youre on your high schools prom committee. You came up with the theme. Youve raised over $200 for the big event. But five months beforehand, your principal threatens to cancel it -- because of your date. This was the position ... Read more   Permalink ...
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• Extraordinary rendition of a U.S. citizen - it could happen to you...!

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 132
  note: mr. meshal was never charged ... "U.S. officials repeatedly threatened Mr. Meshal with torture, forced disappearance, and execution in order to coerce him to confess to wrongdoing in which he had not engaged and to associations that he did not have," according to the lawsuit [the suit, brought on behalf of ...
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• Who Reads the Readers?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  This is a reminder, citizen: Only cranks worry about vastly increased governmental power to gather transactional data about Americans’ online behavior. Why, just last week, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) informed us that there has not been any “demonstrated or recent abuse” of such authority by means of National ...
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• Alabama High School Cancels Prom Rather Than Allow Lesbian Couple To Attend

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 717
  UPDATE: School board officials have reversed their decision and the couple may now attend. Another win for the ACLU LGBT Project! Rather than bow to pressure from the ACLU that they allow an out lesbian student to bring her girlfriend to the prom, Tharptown High School in Russellville, Alabama has canceled ...
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• Prayer in govt meetings causes controversy

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 443
  Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 10/26/2009 5:00:00 AM A federal judge will soon rule in a North Carolina case on prayer in government meetings. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit against Forsyth County, North Carolina, two years ago for opening Commissioner meetings with prayer. Greensboro ...
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• ACLU Report Calls For Stronger U.S. Privacy Oversight Institutions

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  “The United States needs stronger privacy institutions to protect us at a time when new technology and new government powers are threatening our privacy in truly unprecedented ways,” said Michael Macleod-Ball, Acting Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “The history of abuse during the civil ...
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• ACLU Sues FBI for Imprisonment of New Jersey Man in Africa

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 428
  by Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying it illegally detained and mistreated an American, Amir Meshal, who was held in Kenya, Somalia and Ethopia for four months in 2007 before being released. According to the ...
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• 15 Years After Wedowee, Another Alabama Prom Battle

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 137
       Fifteen years after The Randolph County school system in East Alabama made international headlines for refusing to let an interracial couple attend a High School Prom, a Franklin County system in West Alabama is attracting attention to refusing to let a lesbian student bring her girlfriend to next ...
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• ACLU: “Alabama School Bars Lesbian Student From Attending Prom With Her Girlfriend”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  ACLU : "The American Civil Liberties Union today demanded that Franklin County School System officials reverse its decision that a lesbian student can’t attend the school prom with her girlfriend . . ."
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• 9/11 Families: Send Guantanamo Detainees To Federal Court

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 500
  This video, released by the American Civil Liberties Union today, features family members of 9/11 victims calling for federal trials of terrorism suspects. The Obama administration is expected to announce by November 16 whether certain Guantánamo detainees will be transferred to the U.S. for trial in federal courts ...
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• The Sacrificial Lambs Of Political Correctness

  
  Cutting Through The Fog — Authority: 472
  As a country, we have been conditioned by our own legal system to ignore any minority people who might be a potential criminal or terrorist threat. For that, we can thank the ACLU who has actively pursued legal action against any and all types of criminal profiling.At the same time, our local, state and federal law ...
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• Rendition Case Tests FBI Immunity

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  Illustration by: Matt Mahurin Twenty-four-year-old Amir Meshal, the son of Muslim immigrants from Egypt, was a lifelong resident of New Jersey when, after living briefly in Cairo with extended family members, in 2006 he decided to go to Somalia to study Islam and experience living under Islamic law. The country ...
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• Malik Nadal Hasan and Jews and Blacks In World War II: Racism and Anti-Semitism

  
  The Political and Financial Markets Commentator — Authority: 516
  Did They Shoot Up Their Bases And Kill Their Tormentors? Is Hasan A Victim Or A Perpetrator?  During World War II, as well as most other times in recent history, both blacks and Jews faced a degree of torment during basic training or after being deployed.  ( Forward ) Jerome ...
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• Magistrate says Forsyth prayer policy unconstitutional

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  FOX8 News : "A federal magistrate has recommended that prayers referencing Jesus and other sectarian deities made before meetings of the Forsyth County Commissioners are unconstitutional . . . The county was represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, which defended the county at no charge . . . The Alliance Defense ...
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• Judge: Forsyth County commissioners’ prayer unconstitutional

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  (via news release:) WINSTON-SALEM – The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation (ACLU-NCLF) and the Winston-Salem Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State applauded a court ruling today by Magistrate Judge Trevor Sharp finding that the use of sectarian ...
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• NYCLU Calls on NYPD to Make Public Details on Ring of Steel Expansion

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  NYCLU Calls on NYPD to Make Public Details on Ring of Steel Expansion : Via ACLU - Privacy . The New York Civil Liberties Union today called on the NYPD to provide the public with basic details of its multi-million dollar plan to blanket Midtown with a computerized network of surveillance cameras and license ...
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• Radical Islam and the American left

  
  Kenneth G. Davenport — Authority: 466
  From David Horowitz comes an important piece entitled " Our Brain Dead Country ". Horowitz cites the "unholy alliance" between the American left and radical Islam. It is hard not to to draw the conclusion that many on the left are aiding and abetting the enemy -- with the ACLU and myriad other liberal interest groups ...
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• Major Nidal Malik Hasan: Unlikely Terrorist?

  
  The Political and Financial Markets Commentator — Authority: 516
  Problem For Society Educated psychiatrist. Articulate and vocal defender of his religion. Protester of the United States participation in the war in Iraq as a war on his religion and not on the people. Disgruntled soldier who wanted out. Internet author of radical views. Finally a murderer of his fellow ...
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