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• Friday Linkorama

  
  Mike's Meandering Mind — Authority: 129
  Keep trying , gun controllers. It’s just so funny when you keep trying. Am I single now? Is my daughter a bastard? The idea that this decade has seen global cooling continues to fade. I have so far avoided the new wave vampires. I think I’m going to keep doing that . An startling graphic that show ...
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• UK libel laws need to be reformed

  
  The Adam Smith Institute Blog — Authority: 634
  The UK’s reputation as a financial epicentre may have taken a battering, but it still attracts clients the world over in one area: libel law. Anyone across the globe can bring about a libel case in England if they can prove that just one copy of a publication containing ‘defamatory’ remarks about them has been ...
  19 hours ago

• Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe

  
  DhafirTrial — Authority: 123
  Glenn Greenwald  Salon 11/21/09 Lithuania is currently embroiled in a bizarre and deeply confusing political controversy which reveals what happens when a country becomes gripped by extremist ideologies.  Evidence has emerged that Lithuanian intelligence agencies allowed secret CIA prisons to be maintained in ...
  21 hours ago

• arkansas boy wont say pledge to the flag until all americans have equal rights

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 136
  One cool ten-year-old.
  22 hours ago

• /b/tards and Pirates Beware

  
  Oregon Commentator — Authority: 134
  “If you want, I can teach you how to make a bomb out of a toilet paper roll and a stick of dynamite.” There was an interesting article published yesterday on boingboing.net about Britain’s new Internet laws that I think students (and owners of Utorrent) may be interested in. The author of the article, Cory ...
  1 day ago

• Higher Taxes on Rich: Discrimination Based on Race?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  By John W. Lillpop Not only do liberals want to tax the so-called rich in order to fund health care for illegal aliens and other uninsured millions, now a prominent member of the U.S. Senate has proposed a tax on the well to do to pay for Obama’s quagmire in Afghanistan. As reported at Bloomberg.com, in part: ...
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• Airport Rules Changed After Ron Paul’s Aide Is Detained

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 430
  An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct searches related to airplane safety. In response, the American Civil Liberties Union is dropping its lawsuit on behalf ...
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• My Star Trek Wedding and we examine Marriage Licenses

  
  Laugh Direct, Watch Comedy Videos Online — Authority: 146
  Some very funny pictures of my real life Star Trek wedding. We examine the history and necessity of government marriage licenses. Also Gardner GoldSmith’s opinion on marriage and a interview with Walk for Liberties Brooke and Will Buchanan about their divorce! Duration : 0:9:51 (more…)
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• Quote of the Day: Imbeciles

  
  Savage Popcorn — Authority: 127
  This is going to cripple the long tail of the creative sector — it plays entirely to the interests of large corporate media organizations and shits on the plate of us ordinary working artists. - Charlie Stross on the UK Governments Digital Economy Bill
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• Get Out Of My Country

  
  DhafirTrial — Authority: 123
  This is a must listen -  Interview With Malalai Joya Malalai Joya was 27-years-old when she became the youngest person elected to the new Afghan Parliament. She’s now suspended from Parliament for criticizing other MPs and accusing many of being warlords and criminals. She calls Afghanistan’s democracy a ...
  2 days ago

• The Fall of Greg Craig

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum — Authority: 148
  Time has an interesting tick-tock this week about Greg Craig, the White House lawyer tasked with dismantling Bush-era interrogation and detention policies.  At first, Obama was on board with Craigs plans.  Then, reality set in.  Here he is deciding whether to release a set of "torture memos" last spring: Obama ...
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• Paternity Tests

  
  Samuel J. Scott — Authority: 132
  The New York Times Magazine reports on how paternity testing is changing fatherhood in the United States. The feature article, of course, leads with a poignant story:For four years, Mike had known that the girl he had rocked to sleep and danced with across the living-room floor was not, as they say, “his.” The ...
  2 days ago

• Somewhere In East Germany, The Former Head Of The Stasi Weeps

  
  BrianKaneOnline — Authority: 133
  Proving once again that there is nothing that can’t be turned into a way to make a buck (or, in this case, a pound), a British company called Internet Eyes wants to launch a service where ordinary people are given access to the literally millions of CCTV feeds from all around the U.K. so that they can spend their ...
  2 days ago

• The UC Student Fee Protests: What Happened Thursday

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 543
  I’ve just put up a short think piece about the events of the last few days at the University of California, but those events are worth describing in detail — particularly since they’re a long way from over. Here’s what happened yesterday: The UC Regents, as expected, voted to impose huge fee increase on ...
  2 days ago

• Bush Administration Officials Defend Holders Decision on KSM

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 148
  Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who both served in the Justice Department during the Bush administration, have an op-ed in Fridays Washington Post defending Eric Holder, Obamas Attorney General. Comey and Goldsmith say Holders decision to try 9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court was ...
  2 days ago

• America on Trial: Right-Wingers Have Reasons to Worry About Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 635
  NEW YORK--One of my favorite books is by a conservative. Every American should read Stephen L. Carters 1996 primer on ethics, "Integrity." Carter writes that integrity requires doing the right thing, "even at personal cost." In the world of politics, the example of Al Gores father comes to my mind: a senator from ...
  2 days ago

• Fighters, believers and...authoritarians

  
  Next Left — Authority: 649
  Over at Liberal Conspiracy, Don Paskini recently posted an interesting piece on the Labour Partys PPB, Fighters and Believers . As I pointed out in the comments thread, I think it is interesting that Labour is now looking back to its pre-1994 history and trying to darw some sense of meaning and inspiration from ...
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• The end of the free internet in Britain?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  by Charlotte Gore If we can’t stop this, it’s beginning of the end for the net in Britain That’s what Cory Doctorow suggests when reporting the news that Mandelson is seeking to use a back door to grant himself powers that grant him yet more powers to do just about anything in the interest of protecting ...
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• GovInfoSecurity: Einstein 3 Privacy Concerns Voiced

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 139
  GovInfoSecurity reports on a U.S. Senate hearing about Einstein 3. It is a Bush-era pilot program, continued under Obama, that seeks to have private telecommunications companies route the Internet traffic of civilian government agencies through hardware and software that would search for and block malicious computer ...
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• Speaking of the 1st Amendment, God, Spirituality, Religion, and the End of Humankind...

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 635
  One of the greatest strengths of our nation is the fact that each and every individual not only has the right to worship in their own way but the 1st Amendment, properly and broadly interpreted (within the context of the era, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights as a whole), ...
  2 days ago

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