Category Archives: ShortLinks

Surprise surprise: Republicans want to make the PATRIOT Act permanent, instead of expiring in 2005. I forget…what liberties was it that we were defending?

As I posted on MeFi this morning, the U.S. military has killed several journalists, just a month after they threatened to kill them. It’s hard to know if this is a coincidence or not, so I was encouraged to see an interview with Christiane Amanpour this evening, in which she offered a restrained condemnation of […]

The Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Black vs. Virginia, in which a man was convicted of burning a cross on his private property. They have decided to uphold Virginia’s law, which states: § 18.2-423. Burning cross on property of another or public place with intent to intimidate; penalty; prima facie evidence of […]