Civil rights

Within the United States, civil rights refer to a set of rights that are guaranteed to citizens by the constitution. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion are but a few examples of civil rights.

Civil rights laws, however, are meaningless without the support of the executive branch and enforcement from Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies. Civil rights are guaranteed by the United States constitution but enforcing these rights often proves to be an ongoing task.

Civil rights can also address disability rights, as evidenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The rights of all citizens, irrespective of physical abilities are protected under civil rights laws.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Civil rights”

• Civil Rights Panel Subpoenas Justice Department in New Black Panthers Case

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  The United States Civil Rights Commission, an eight-member agency that investigates accusations of discrimination, has launched its latest offensive against a most unusual target: the Justice Department.
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• Harry Reid buys votes with Medicare money, Reid bribed Nelson and Landrieu, Medicare dollars used for pay to play politics, Nebraska and Louisiana benefit

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  To all Americans. Especially to all senior citizens, who survived the Great Depression and fought hard to save this country and keep it free. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are ramming an unwanted Health Care Bill down our throats, a bill that cuts billions from Medicare. To do this they have bought the ...
  9 hours ago

• Let the sinners in

  
  Deep Thoughts — Authority: 477
  It’s odd really, I just realized that I do not believe in the concept of sin. I’ve never really thought about it, but sin is a religious concept and arbitrary. I’ve used it to describe bad behavior. That is an improper use of the term. I’ll stick to using good and bad to describe behavior. Religion is ...
  10 hours ago

• It’s all winter fun until someone pulls a gun.

  
  Communion Of Dreams — Authority: 122
  Well, maybe there is a use for Twitter, after all. Seems that in the middle of the big snowstorm smacking the East Coast, some folks in DC decided to organize a good ol’ fashioned snowball fight. You know, show up, informal sides, throw snowballs at one another. Some 150 – 200 people joined in. And everyone was ...
  10 hours ago

• Nebraska Rally opposing Senate Healthcare Bill and Ben Nelson’s support , Emergency rally Omaha, Sunday, December 20, 2009, Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Ben Nelson bribed, Harry Reid bribes, Grassroots in Nebraska

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  Just in from Grassroots in Nebraska, Sunday, December 20, 2009. A message to all members of Grassroots in Nebraska Please see the information at the bottom of this message regrading a rally in Omaha I was told about last evening. Our rally is ON for Tuesday. As most of you well know, Senator Nelson announced today ...
  13 hours ago

• Senator J. Wellington Wimpy’s Health Care Bill

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  Pollsters like to say their surveys are like a snapshot, limited to the time and the picture frame in which they are taken. What we are seeing in polling on the takeover of health care by the federal government is a consistent opposition by the American people. No major poll shows the people supporting the House or ...
  14 hours ago

• Holder Stonewalling Congress Over Black Panther Investigation

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Rep. Frank Wolf, R.-Va., issued a public statement Thursday saying that President Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has instructed staff attorneys to ignore legal subpoenas by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission (CRC) requesting information about the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. This is in stark ...
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• Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer: Great Courage

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 423
  On August 6, 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was formed as an alternative to the segregated Mississippi Democratic Party. Organized in conjunction with the Freedom Summer voter registration drives of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and COFO (the Council of Federated ...
  17 hours ago

• Scandals in High Hebrew Places

  
  White Civil Rights — Authority: 122
  by Ian Mosley Every once in a while, it’s interesting to peer into internal Jewish squabbles. A recent article notes “The founder of a powerful American group that seeks to enforce a tough stance on conversions has abruptly resigned. Leib Tropper, a strictly Orthodox rabbi who founded the New York-based ...
  18 hours ago

• Heth And Jed — Live At The Staten Island Ferry

  
  NLN — Authority: 118
  Heth Weinstein of Heth and Jed, performing at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal (Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One of the great things about New York City is the ubiquitous street music. In recent years a number of musicians have moved beneath the street — and have come to specialize in doing ...
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• Heth And Jed — Live At The Staten Island Ferry

  
  NLN — Authority: 118
  Heth Weinstein of Heth and Jed, performing at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal (Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One of the great things about New York City is the ubiquitous street music. In recent years a number of musicians have moved beneath the street — and have come to specialize in doing ...
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• DC Same-Sex Marriage Bill Law……Sort Of

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 151
  Mayor Adrian Fenty has signed the bill , but there is still a 60 day Congressional review period, because DC citizens dont have full civil rights more generally, and I think that you will see a concerted effort by the Phants/Blue Dogs/Closet cases, and other various bigots in Congress to repeal this.
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• Breakfast At Leviev’s

  
  NLN — Authority: 118
  Protesters caroling at Leviev’s (Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) NEW YORK — Early in the morning on December 4th, about 25 anti-occupation, anti Israeli-apartheid activists, organized by Adalah-NY, presented a noisy surprise to the members of the Israeli Business Leaders Delegation having breakfast at a reception ...
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• Wis. teen will need legal permission to date girls

  
  Political Wrinkles — Authority: 452
  Quote: APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin teenager will need legal permission to date girls for the next three years after he was convicted of fleeing to Tennessee with his girlfriend in a stolen car. Nineteen-year-old Jordan S. Christensen of Appleton was sentenced Friday to one year in jail and three ...
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• Grannies To Toys R Us: War Is Not A Game

  
  NLN — Authority: 118
  The Grannies performing in Times Square (Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) NEW YORK — On December 4th the Ragging Grannies and the Granny Peace Brigade created a wonderful holiday peace event at the crossroads of the world, Times Square. The purpose was to send the message, no more war toys and no more war. They met ...
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• Sen. Arlen Specter: Health care reform passage pulling biscupids

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  n a conference call with Pennsylvania reporters Saturday, Specter compared the passage of the health care bill to the Civil Rights Act. He said tough legislative achievements take considerable time. "The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was necessary, although it did not go as far as people would have liked then, to get the ...
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• Some Good News

  
  Queer Notes — Authority: 116
  First, sorry I havent been posting a lot lately. My step-father died last friday and Ive been dealing with that and visiting my mother in north Arkansas. My step-father Dave was a good man who gave my mother and my family lots of love and happiness. He will be missed... Now, after a string of bad news for LGBT ...
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• White Citizens’ Society: The Racist and Conspiracy Laden John Birch Society Re-Emerges

  
  PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog — Authority: 137
  Notes: JBS advocates the abolition of income tax, and the repeal of civil rights legislation, which it sees as being Communist in inspiration. The John Birch Society is a white citizens’... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Senator Ben Nelson bribed with taxpayer dollars, Nelson caves to Harry Reid bribes, Senate Health Care Bill, Taxes now insurance later, Democrat lies, Socialists, Harry Reid criminal act, Obama thugs threats

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and ...
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• Extending Afghan war terrible mistake: US author

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Describing the US troop surge in war-torn Afghanistan as a “terrible mistake”, a Pulitzer prize winning American author and an ardent Gandhi admirer Saturday said war cannot be ended by war.“It was a terrible mistake to extend the war in Afghanistan,” said Alice Walker, an eminent ...
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