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Conservatives for Privacy, Where is the Left?

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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J. Bradley Jansen

The best way to keep us safe and free is eternal vigilance--no matter which party is in office. So, let's hold our friends on the left accountable when it's needed.

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Where Have All the Steroids Gone?

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 11.27.2009 | Entertainment

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Roger I. Abrams

It has been months now since we have heard the word "steroids" uttered in the sporting news about the allegedly "cheating" baseball players.

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Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.

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Laura Dean

Strip Searches Pervasive Despite Huge Settlements

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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One sunny fall afternoon, a mother of seven answered a knock at her door to find a cluster of policemen waiting on the step. She wore pajamas because ...

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested/Released In MN (Update With Press Conference)

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Linda Milazzo

Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddo...

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Hands Off My Laptop, iPod, Cellphone, Pager, Beeper, Flash Drive, Pocket Litter, First Born (OK, Not My First Born)

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

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Alan Rosenblatt

Customs and Border Protection just released its new policies for searching and seizing laptops at the border.

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Keep Your Hands Off My Laptop

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

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Alan Rosenblatt

As it stands, Customs can grab anyone at the border, seize their laptop, and demand passwords and encryption keys as a pre-condition to entering the country. And who knows when you'll get your computer back?

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Fighting the Unconstitutional Spying Law

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

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Anthony D. Romero

The FISA bill goes further to extend the power of the executive to collect our communications than the president's original secret spying program. The Fourth Amendment was essentially eviscerated.

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Obama and the Progressive Base

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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Norman Solomon

A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as "an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his ...

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The Republicans and Barack Obama Are Going to Give Into the Terrorists

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

Somehow Obama thought it was a good idea to go along with these surrender monkeys on the 4th amendment. But aside from the politics, it's a pathetic acquiescence to the wishes of Al Qaeda.

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On Guns, Scalia is Right For Once, and Obama Agrees

Jackson Williams | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Jackson Williams

If we don't like the Second Amendment, then we should agitate to get rid of it in the methods the Founders prescribed. But we might want to think twice.

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I'll Trade You the 2nd Amendment for the 4th

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.

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