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A British Response to a Terror Attack

…we can call Beck-merica, where fear overcame any sense of proportion, and civil rights simply surrendered to authority. Londoners picked themselves up, Americans rushed through the PATRIOT Act and bought…

CIA, TIA & RBC: Who was watching?

…and civil liberties or the President certified the program’s research as vital to national security interests. In February 2003, Congress passed legislation suspending activities of the IAO pending a Congressional…

…are no longer at the school and are contesting their termination. Monaghan claims that they are Catholic ministers and therefore the school is exempt from suit in civil court under…

In Defense of Sarah Palin

…any President since FDR, the Great Society, cutting poverty significantly, moving Civil Rights forward, etc., but he simply could not solve Vietnam, and the economy was starting to strain. LBJ…

Drug testing for those being bailed out

…Americans turn to these safety nets to ride out the recession. Poverty and civil liberties advocates fear the strategy could backfire, discouraging some people from seeking financial aid and making…