It looks like the Patriot Act gets another one month extension. This is getting very tiresome. Why not just pass a three or six month extension so time can be spent debating the actual act and not just these extensions. Republicans just love to play politics and they are with the very thing they coin […]
It looks like the Patriot Act gets another one month extension. This is getting very tiresome. Why not just pass a three or six month extension so time can be spent debating the actual act and not just these extensions. Republicans just love to play politics and they are with the very thing they coin […]
The following is not the first story of its type. Every week or so it seems that one story similar pops up. The outcome might be slightly different but the essence of the story remains the same. An e-mail threat that prompted the evacuation of more than a dozen Brandeis University buildings on January 18 […]
The House has just approved a one month extension on the Patriot Act without debate. Of course this means the bill will have to go back to Senate to once again get voted on. This is getting crazy.
Rep Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is now threatening to block the Patriot Act because of the extension: Via Raw Story: Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Frank James Sensenbrenner (R – WI) has rejected a Patriot Act compromise reached by the Senate. The Senate had agreed to extend controversial provisions of the […]
Senate leaders have reached an agreement to extend the Patriot Act for 6 months so it can be examined more and possible have further protections of civil liberties added in. The extension is twice as long as Democrats were asking for but it is a Democrat victory none the less. It is also a victory […]
The LA Times has an article today I find rather disturbing and it gives us a closer look into the way the Republican Party thinks: WASHINGTON  With disputes raging about Iraq, domestic surveillance and the Patriot Act, President Bush faces more resistance from Democrats on a number of his national security policies than at […]
To give my readers a better example of how the Republicans feel about your civil liberties, you just need to look at what was said in Senate today: “None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,†said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former judge and close ally of the president who sits on […]
The President made his speech and it was pretty much same old, same old. He did admit some miscalculations in the process but kind of blew them off as learning experiences. I am sure the families of fallen soldiers are proud to know their loved ones gave their lives for a learning experience on behalf […]
From today’s New York Times comes a story that gives the sense we may have more “Patriot Act” style arguments but this time it is over cell phones. Most Americans carry cellphones, but many may not know that government agencies can track their movements through the signals emanating from the handset. In recent years, law […]