Civil Liberties

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• State agrees to destroy controversial infant blood samples

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 138
  MARTIN BARTLETT KVUE News | The Texas Department of State Health services has about four months to destroy blood samples taken and stored without permission from millions of babies. State law allows the department to collect those blood samples for routine disease testing, but the state’s been hanging on to ...
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• How will this terrorist attempt affect liberties?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 666
  The attempted terrorist attack by Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas Eve presents some major policy headaches for President Obama just when he was beginning to grapple with them. It’s a given that airport security will tighten further to near-ridiculous levels, even though some ...
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• Overstepping Their Bounds?

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 443
  Or just getting in some practice for when they make this legal and a normal part of policing? Yesterday, as royals including Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and his daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, made their way on foot from Sandringham House in Norfolk to St Mary Magdalene church, a senior police officer ...
  7 hours ago

• Quit kit

  
  The Adam Smith Institute Blog — Authority: 567
  I am increasingly tempted to start smoking once more. Given the authoritarian stance that the government takes against the partaking of tobacco, it is only a matter of time before lighting up will have the lure, excitement and increased health risks that came with drinking in prohibition America. The latest in the ...
  10 hours ago

• Obama Undeserving of Civil Liberties Accolades

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 143
  At the end of each year I typically award the "Freeby" to the person who has done the most in the service of civil liberties. As dusk fell on 2008 and the reign-of-error Bush administration was packing up its jackhammers, I felt then that I could have written [...]
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• Holiday hangover – all your rights are belong to INTERPOL

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 528
  By J. DeVoyIn a little-publicized move just now being scrutinized over at The Spearhead, Barack Obama has granted the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) new immunities under US law.  On December 16, 2009, Obama signed an executive order amending Order 12425, signed by Ronald Reagan in 1983.  This ...
  11 hours ago

• Obama Addresses Airline Security in Low-Key Fashion [Obama "Calibrates" His Response]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Obama Addresses Airline Security in Low-Key Fashion By Anne E. Kornblut Monday, December 28, 2009 KAILUA, HAWAII -- President Obama has performed a difficult but familiar balancing act over the past few days: ordering new security measures in the wake of an attempted airliner attack without excessively alarming the ...
  13 hours ago

• Pat Condell’s ‘Agressive Atheism’ YouTube video – (in defence of free speech)

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 432
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index “Ban Blair-Baiting” petit ion - please sign Comment at end 27th December, 2009 AN ANTIDOTE TO CHRISTMAS – IF YOU LIKE OR EVEN IF YOU DON’T Condell on 1st video below: “Islamic Human Rights Charter … based on Sharia … which is, of ...
  19 hours ago

• Flubbed terrorists known to government.

  
  Classically Liberal — Authority: 424
  The Nigerian who tried to light explosive strapped to his leg was known to the U.S. government. Umar Abdulmutallabs name was added to a list of known or suspsected terrorists by the government a month ago. However, when the mans name was run through the database, before he could board his flight, it came up with a ...
  21 hours ago

• Its Gitmo up north | Olivia Hampton

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Moving the remaining detainees from Guantánamo to an empty prison in Illinois wont solve President Obamas problems Once again, President Obama has managed to anger both the right and the left. This time, its not his contentious plans to overhaul the US healthcare system, a new costly economic stimulus or the ...
  1 day ago

• Anime Diet: Anime Diet’s Hidden Gems – Reviews, Discussions and More

  
  Anime Nano! — Authority: 173
  Anime Diet Presents: Best Kept Secret of Anime Diet’s archive, part 1. Looking for previously unread articles? Then our 10+ hours of work combing through 147 pages to find these little gems is definitely worth every second! Enjoy these as our year-end gift to you!Reviews:Show ▼Alien Nine: Utter ...
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• ACLU Now an Exponentially Less Hardcore Lobby Than Previously Considered [Civil Liberties]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  You will be disappointed to find out that the ACLUs executive director doesnt spend Sundays burning Anarchy signs into American flags while singing American slave spirituals to the tune of "Poker Face." He likes to feed horses grass. [ ACLU ]
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• Sunday Routine | Anthony D. Romero: Taking a Break From Outrage

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  AWAY Anthony D. Romero believes in making Sunday a day of rest. At the beach, theres no civil liberties talk.
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• Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA

  
  Discourse.net — Authority: 428
  In Americas Secret ICE Castles , the Nation magazine claims that our immigration police has 186 secret detention facilities scattered around the country . Among the more hair-raising allegations: A year ago, a top ICE official boasted, “If you dont have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you ...
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• Gallup shows the decline of Christians during the Christmas season

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 130
  by JasonWell, not entirely. America is and remains an overwhelming Christian nation. A nation that embraces Christianity and has a remarkable respect for all religions — an existing Christian virtue. However, as Gallup’s data shows that Americans who identify with Christianity is declining while those who have no ...
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• Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery

  
  NObama Blog — Authority: 139
  Written by Chris Floyd While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice and took little time. In fact, our most august ...
  3 days ago

• Bernie Madoff Beat Up in Jail?

  
  STREET KNOWLEDGE MEDIA — Authority: 147
  Well it seems that Bernie got his head handed to him in jail. The inmates obviously don’t like people who steal.via Huff PostSources told WTVD, the ABC affiliate in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina, that the convicted Ponzi schemer had facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung and was discharged from Duke two ...
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• What Crimes Does the New Human Rights Section Prosecute?

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  Over at Main Justice, Andrew Ramonas reports that Barack Obama just signed into law the Human Rights Enforcement Act of 2009, which authorizes the creation of a human rights section within the criminal division of the Department of Justice. According to the legislation , the new human rights section will ...
  4 days ago

• Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Obamacare – Critical Condition on National Review Online

  
  NObama Blog — Authority: 139
  Jeffrey H. Anderson - [...] At its core, what Obamacare really means is a loss of freedom. Full article: National Review Online . Posted in NObama Tagged: Assault on Civil Liberties, Health Care, Socialist Policies, Thugocracy
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• Chris Grayling u-turns again, on home defence

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 666
  It seem to have worked out for the cerebral and shy Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling, treading gingerly into the high profile area of the right to self-defence this week. Perhaps a tiny amount of over-reach? Indeed Melanie Phillips thought Grayling had gone well over the top in ‘ endorsing mob rule ‘. David ...
  4 days ago

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