Showing posts with label Constitutional Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitutional Rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Secret panel can put Americans on 'kill list'

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WASHINGTON — American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government official...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

US invokes "state secrets" in defense of assassinating an American citizen

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When senior Obama administration officials invoked the state secrets privilege Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit brought on behalf of U.S.-born ...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

None dare call it tyranny

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If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government — specifically the executive branch — can do pretty much what...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

The Tea Party and the campaign to repeal the 17th(?) amendment

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Until recently, hardly anyone ever bothered with the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which, if you don’t know, is the one that gives you...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Tincture of Lawlessness

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Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as his whims decreed, were it not...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

That sound you hear...

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Is what little is left of the Fourth Amendment being fed into a shredder by the Bush Administration. Somewhere George Orwell is enjoying a ...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

The Right to Keep Arms

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The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has accepted the first case that will directly address the long controversial issues surrounding th...