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Despite Public Outcry, Trump's FCC Kills Net Neutrality

Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:03:46 pm
Our happiness over the defeat of far right loon Roy Moore comes crashing to a halt today, as the Trump FCC destroys another piece of President Obama's legacy: FCC repeals net neutrality rules in sweeping act of deregulation. Federal regulators voted Thursday to allow Internet providers to speed up service ...

In Which Donald Trump Embarrasses America and Makes an Ass of Himself Again

Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 12:49:28 pm
Following the attack in London yesterday, our so-called president did what he does best: he launched a stream of fear-mongering, opportunistic tweets, and retweeted an early unconfirmed post at Drudge Report, because who needs intelligence services and experts when you can just browse over to Drudge Report for your information? We ...

Trump Recycles His Muslim Ban, but It Doesn't Smell Any Better This Time Around

Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:40:53 pm
Well, the Trump Horror is trying again with its Muslim Ban, doing a cursory rewrite and removing Iraq from the list of banned countries, but doing nothing to change the bigoted and un-American intent. I predict it's going to get rather quickly thrown out by the courts again. For what it's ...

Report: Russia Wants to "Curry Favor" With Trump by Handing Over Edward Snowden (To Be Executed)

Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:34:59 pm
The news just keeps getting wackier. Now we have reports that Russia may try to "curry favor" with the Trump regime by turning over Edward Snowden. And remember: Donald Trump has called Edward Snowden a "traitor" who should be executed. I wonder if Ed now regrets tweeting "2016: a choice between Donald ...

Federal Judge Rules #Ferguson Police's "5-Second Rule" for Protesters Is Unconstitutional

Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:17:34 pm
One of the very controversial measures used by Ferguson police and St. Louis County police against people protesting the shooting of Michael Brown is their "5-second rule" --a crowd-control tactic that forces protesters to keep moving or be arrested if they remain in one place longer than 5 seconds. Yesterday a ...

The Michael Brown Shooting Incident Report Is Ridiculous

Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:40:38 am
The ACLU of Missouri filed a lawsuit to get Michael Brown's shooting incident report released, and well... just read it for yourself. It won't take long. Just a few seconds. Because there's almost no information in it. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2375042 85/CARE-Incident-Report UPDATE at 8/22/14 10:44:03 am by Charles Johnson And the Ferguson police department's incident report is ...

Alabama's McClurkin, "Gohmert in a dress," pushing even more ultra-radical bills

Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:11:28 am
Rep. Mary Sue McClurkinSo a few days ago I posted a page about how Alabama is attempting to force "Christian" prayer in all Public schools. Specifically, this revolved around Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Indian Springs, who blatantly ignored a 2-3 loss in a voice vote for something she (and ...

Putin: "Snowden first met with our diplomats while in Hong Kong."

Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:20:27 am
Perhaps the oddest part of the New Yorker's Snowden interview article is where it addresses Snowden's Hong Kong Russian consulate visit. Jane Mayer clearly thought the issue was worth raising in her piece, but instead of asking Snowden directly, she tosses the question to an ACLU legal adviser: Some ...

Federal Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal

Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:06:20 am
A federal district court judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit brought by the ACLU today, and declared that NSA phone surveillance is legal. U.S. District Judge William Pauley said in a written opinion that the program "represents the government's counter-punch" to eliminate al-Qaida's terror network by connecting fragmented and ...

Supreme Court Turns Down NSA Surveillance Case

Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:15:49 am
The legality of government collection of telephone metadata has been settled for a long time, so it isn't really surprising that the Supreme Court turned down a direct review of FISA today. The type of review requested (a "mandamus" review) is rarely granted. The Supreme Court on Monday passed up an ...

Second New Mexico Suit Filed Over Body Cavity Searches, with Update

Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:21:31 am
A second lawsuit was filed Friday against southern New Mexico authorities accused of illegally subjecting drug suspects to invasive body cavity searches. And the attorney who filed the cases says she has been getting calls from others saying they were detained after the uncertified drug-sniffing dog at the heart ...

Greenwald on the Amash Amendment: Obama Is Literally in Cahoots With GOP

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:35:41 pm
Oh Glenn. Any excuse to stroke your Obama Derangement Syndrome, right? The rabidly pro-war and anti-Muslim GOP former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, has repeatedly lavished Obama with all sorts of praise and support for his policies in those areas. The Obama White House frequently needs, ...

GOP Rebranding Watch: NC Republicans Sponsor Bill to Declare Christianity the State Religion

Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:22:10 pm
Road sign via Shutterstock It's an explicit violation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and will certainly be struck down in court if they actually pass this mind-numbingly stupid bill, but nonetheless Republicans in North Carolina are trying to declare Christianity the official state religion. The word for this is ...

PA Democrats Ridicule GOP Majority Leader Over Voter ID Remarks

Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:30:53 pm
YouTube Video As we noted yesterday, in his comments to a GOP committee meeting, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai let slip the real reason for Republican-sponsored Voter ID laws; his exact quote: “Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, ...

GOP Pushing Mandatory Invasive Ultrasound Legislation in Pennsylvania Too

Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:08:13 am
The GOP's uterus inspection device Virginia isn't the only state in which Republicans are trying to pass vicious slut-shaming mandatory ultrasound laws, of course; the GOP is also pushing this misogynistic legislation in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and now Pennsylvania. A bill that would require women to have an ultrasound at ...

An 84-Year Old Heroine in the Fight Against GOP Voter Suppression

Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:55:19 am
Ruthelle Frank is one of the true heroes in the fight to keep the Republican Party from passing their new Jim Crow "voter ID" laws, intended to disenfranchise minorities who tend to vote Democratic: At 84, she lacks identification, but not will to fight voter ID law. Brokaw - ...

Lost in Detention, the Failure of US Immigration Policy

Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:43:00 pm
I was recently able to view the October 18th airing of the PBS Frontline documentary, "Lost in Detention" on the state of deportation in the U.S. under the Obama administration. In a word, it's pathetic, but worth the time to watch. Video Beginning in 2008, under the Obama administration, the U.S. Immigration ...

GOP's 'Protect Life Act' Says Hospitals Can Let Women Die

Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:13:22 am
It was bad enough when they tried to redefine rape, but a new bill introduced by Republican Congressman Joe Pitts with the Orwellian title "Protect Life Act" is truly obscene. This bill changes the requirement that emergency room doctors must try to save every patient, by creating a special exception for ...

How Glenn Beck and Right Wing Media Drove Byron Williams to Violence

Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:00:29 am
Last July, when Byron Williams was arrested in Oakland after a shootout with police, we learned that he was on his way to attack the offices of the ACLU and the Tides Foundation -- two frequent targets of Glenn Beck. The circumstantial connection of Williams's violent plans with Glenn Beck's ugly ...

What Right Wing Extremist Violence? Part 2

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:57:08 pm
In Oakland, police have announced that Byron Williams, who was injured in a shootout with police on Sunday, was on his way to commit mass murder at offices of the ACLU and the Tides Foundation. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ― Police say a California man who engaged in a freeway shootout ...

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