What’s worse, eavesdropping on Americans without a warrant or losing evidence acquired via this unconstitutional search for unpaid phone bills? Where is the FBI conducting this operation, in a fraternity house? We have lost our civil liberties and privacy to insecure control freaks and are no safer today than we were on 9/11. [...]
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Catholic League president Bill Donahue actually said something that makes sense. Regarding Mike Huckabee: “What he’s trying to say to the evangelicals in western Iowa (is): I’m the real thing. You know what, sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is.” Do you think Donahue would feel the same way if Huckabee was Catholic? Why? Because it is useless. A special state commission found in January that the death penalty was a more expensive sentence than life in prison, hasn’t deterred murder, and could kill innocent people. Maybe New Jersey can be a model for national change (instead of its usual position as punch line). Carrying a concealed weapon in public is perfectly fine but playing Naked Twister in your own house is banned? Apparently, not all Amendments to the Constitution are considered equal in the Lone Star State. The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about the C.I.A’s secret detention program, according to current and former government officials. The videotapes showed agency operatives in 2002 subjecting [...] “There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church’s distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes president, he will need the prayers of the people of [...] |
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