Under God continued again
Radley Balko's take on the Pledge: "…I certainly don't think it's the federal government's (or a judge's) responsibility to ban the Pledge. Nor do I think any government — state, federal or local —...
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Under God continued
Gene Healy's take on the Pledge: "A free people ought not to be ritualistically declaring their allegiance to the state and its symbols like a bunch of malleable, goosestepping Eurotrash." I second that motion.
The Egalitarian
The American Civil Rights Institute, founded by Ward Connerly has posted their latest edition of The Egalitarian online (pdf format). Good reading, as always.
Domestic Surveillance
Brad Jansen, Deputy Director of the Center for Technology Policy of the Free Congress Foundation has this to say in the Washington Times: When Attorney General John Ashcroft announced changes to the Guidelines on...
Two Year Old Shoots Self
This is just sad, but the little guy "has a full chance of recovery." I hope so, but it should never have happened in the first place. I hate seeing kids get hurt. WKRN...
Civil Liberties and Terrorism
Timothy Lynch, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice has released a new Policy Analysis entitled: Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Preserving Our Liberties While Fighting Terrorism "This cycle of terrorist attack followed...
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Nat Hentoff in the Village Voice on June 21st: In the spirit of the Sons of Liberty, on February 4 of this year, some 300 citizens of Northampton, Massachusetts, held a town meeting to...
Jose Padilla
Newsday gets one right. Padilla is "one nasty piece of work" as their editorial from yesterday states. But he is also an American citizen. "Our tripartite government of executive, legislative and judicial branches, was...