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Barack Obama’s having a rough week.
First, he did the very odd thing of stating very publicly he liked President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative so much he wanted to expand it.  That drew the ire of the Reverend Jesse Jackson:
“See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson says during a break in [...]

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Study finds Web isn’t teeming with sex ANALYSIS SHOWS ABOUT 1 PERCENT OF ALL PAGES HAVE ADULT CONTENT
That’s the conclusion the San Jose Mercury News comes to regarding an argument the ACLU presented in federal court last week regarding their challenge to the Child Online Protection Act President Clinton signed into law in 1998. [...]

Tags: aclu, child-online-protection-act, internet, Opinions, porn, san-jose-mercury-news

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Well, not exactly.  But they did drop a lawsuit against it citing "improvements to the law".  Here’s the ONLY part that was changed that appease the ACLU:
The lawsuit, filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Mich., and five other nonprofit groups, was the first legal challenge to Section [...]

Tags: aclu, appeasement, bush, change, communism, demand, federal, Government, lawyer, legal, muslim, patriotism, People, policy

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Foxnews sets the tone with this opening salvo:
The Hippocratic Oath doctors swear to save lives, not end them. But one doctor accused of doing just that also happens to be the governor of Kentucky, and a lawmaker willing to sign execution orders on death row inmates.
However, they do get credit for allowing the rebuttal:
“There is [...]

Tags: aclu, AI, death-sentence, Ethics, hippocratic-oath, National Politics, Opinions, thomas-clyde-bowling

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