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• Redefining Marriage, Rolling Back Charity

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 760
  The price of passage of same-sex marriage legislation in the District of Columbia has just risen dramatically. Refusing to include robust religious liberty protections in the bill that has just been approved by a Council subcommittee , the City appears poised to impose requirements that will drastically cut social ...
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• Lesbian student in Alabama, USA, now allowed to bring girlfriend to prom (subject to usual screening)

  
  newsjiffy — Authority: 424
  Cynthia Stewart, a student in Tharptown High School, Alabama, America, is now allowed to take her girlfriend to the school prom in March, subject to the usual screeing process, following a reversal of the decision of Franklin County School System officials , according to Pink News.co.uk She had originally been ...
  6 hours ago

• UK carries on defying Europe on DNA | Henry Porter

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  Last night the inventor of DNA profiling, Sir Alec Jeffreys, condemned the governments plans, announced yesterday , to keep the DNA of innocent people on the national DNA database for six years in defiance of a ruling by the European court of human rights. Jeffreys was taking part in a panel discussion to ...
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• Help! Poor men need affirmative action!

  
  Not Your Sweetie — Authority: 129
  No sooner did we have to deal with Stupack’s disbelief that   defunding women’s rights to chose was so easy , a new story confirms my suspicions. According to NPR The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether some private colleges discriminate against women in admissions. The ...
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• Radicals can still have hope in Cameron

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 685
  Benedict Brogan uses his Telegraph column to list Tory MPs concerns that Cameron will be a trimmer rather than a radical. My responses are in italics after each paragraph. On tax... "The Tory Right remains disbelieving of George Osbornes decision to accept – for the foreseeable future – Labours new 50p ...
  13 hours ago

• In the News: Groups Urge White House to Fill Privacy Oversight Board

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  Privacy Lives joins 28 groups (including the Center for Democracy & Technology, Center for National Security Studies, and Special Libraries Association) in sending a letter (pdf) to the White House urging that the administration make the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board selection process “a priority ...
  14 hours ago

• AFP: Experts agree on proposed global privacy standards

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  AFP reports on a privacy declaration from the Madrid, Spain, conference of data protection and privacy commissioners from around the world.Experts from 50 nations meeting in Madrid have reached a draft agreement on international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data, participants said on ...
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• We’ll Always Have The Memories

  
  Providence Daily Dose — Authority: 544
  As we accrue more evidence of this joke-of-a-governor’s detest for civil liberties, I’m reminded to wonder: How did he ever manage to live down his mini Patriot Act of 2004 ? The 18-page bill included language from ill-considered laws dating back to World War I — a time of public hysteria, when American ...
  15 hours ago

• US Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan

  
  DhafirTrial — Authority: 121
  By Malalai Joya As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country.  (more…)
  18 hours ago

• Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?

  
  Offshore Asset Protection BLOG - Bob Bauman — Authority: 117
  That was the headline on an alarming commentary  in The Wall Street Journal on October 28th. The subhead reads: U.N. plans for a new government are scary. Americans (and those from every nation) who love their country should indeed read this amazing, alarming document. And when you do read the 181 ...
  20 hours ago

• A Lesson for Young Journalists, Courtesy of Justice Kennedy

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  A high school newspaper in Manhattan recently added a new and prestigious editor to its staff: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.  Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports : It turns out that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, widely regarded as one of the court’s most vigilant defenders of First Amendment ...
  21 hours ago

• Im Channeling Eazy-E

  
  who's your nanny? — Authority: 119
  Im not completely on board with the argument that you cant be taken seriously as a writer if you use blatant profanity, but theres nevertheless some merit to it. So with that, Ill try to hold my tongue for now -- click here if you dont know what I mean by the title. As for whats got me so riled up, check out this ...
  22 hours ago

• American Legion pulls scholarships over Veteran’s Day school prayer

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 683
  Photo: Lori Howard, iStockphoto The American Legion Post 550 in Bloomington says it will withhold up to $30,000 in scholarships because the public school district won’t allow the group to lead the student body in prayer, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday. “We are not trying to push anything on kids or ...
  23 hours ago

• Store fires man for saying he opposes gay marriage

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 522
  It’s not coming; it’s here. A Brookstone store in Massachusetts has fired a worker because, after a co-worker approached him four times to talk about her upcoming lesbian wedding, he told her he thought homosexuality was immoral. He says she was clearly trying to goad him into expressing his moral beliefs, and ...
  23 hours ago

• Veterans: You took an oath to defend the CONSTITUTION from all enemies!

  
  World and Church Trends and Bible Prophecy — Authority: 118
  On this Veterans Day I think it is time for us veterans to remember the oath we took to God and country to defend the CONSTITUTION from all enemies foreign and domestic.In case anyone forgot here is the oath you took.I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution [...]
  23 hours ago

• Lambert incident leads to revised TSA screening rules

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 628
  WASHINGTON — Transportation Security Administration screeners at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport probably wish that the fellow they chose to grill last March about a box of cash wasn’t a Ron Paul devotee who runs a committee devoted to individual rights and constitutional government. But grill ...
  23 hours ago

• Blackwater Bribing Iraqi Officials?

  
  joerobertson.com — Authority: 123
  KUDOS to Rachel Maddow for covering Blackwater in this story which gets no time in the press. This as they say “is the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to “Private Contractors” working for our Government…Here is a clip from Maddow’s show and below a report from RawStory which follow-up on the NYT story ...
  23 hours ago

• Problems with 911

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Michael Crowley, senior editor at The New Republic , recounts some nightmare episodes with the 911 Emergency Response System in the current issue of Reader’s Digest .  Here’s an excerpt: If there’s one thing we think we can count on, it’s that a frantic call to 911 will bring a swift and effective ...
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• Classical Liberalism Is All in Our Heads? Responding to Paul Harvey on Race

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 617
  In the current issue of Books & Culture, Professor Paul Harvey (not to be confused with the late radio icon) takes aim at my “imagined” (read: invented) tradition of classical liberalism on race. You can read his full review here . Harvey concedes that Race and Liberty in America rediscovers ...
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• NYC Libertarian Chapter Officer Arrested in Free Speech Violation

  
  Serf City — Authority:
  Manhattan Libertarian Party Membership Director, Antonio Musumeci, was arrested Monday, and his camera’s memory card confiscated.  Antonio was recording  Julian Heicklen, a fully informed jury activist , as he distributed FIJA  information at the federal courthouse in New York City.   This incident takes ...
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