Posts Tagged ‘aclu’

Boycott Progressive Insurance

September 10th, 2010 | No Comments

This email has been making the rounds according to snopes: This is a heads up regarding Progressive Auto Insurance. You know who they are. They’re the ones with the clever television ads featuring the perky brunette actress all dressed in white. What you might not know is that the chairman of Progressive is Peter Lewis, [...]

Case of the missing Mojave Cross

May 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment

A very simple cross, nestled in the heart of the Mojave Desert, sat pretty much undisturbed, and for the most part un-noticed for 75 years. In 1934 the Cross was erected on public property.  It sat there for a long, long, time.  The wooden crosses invariably fell and were replaced over the years.  In 1994 [...]

Interrogating CIA staff

September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Now that Eric Holder has decided to interrogate CIA staff instead of people who really do want to kill us, I just have to wonder what techniques will be deemed excessive?  The agency given the responsibility of investigating interrogation techniques is the FBI.  In the past, the FBI has most often found that accusations from [...]

Ordering pizza in 2012

August 18th, 2009 | No Comments

This is kinda funny.  And, kinda possible. Not sure I trust the ACLU to stop it from happening tho. Are you thinking twice before you order your next pizza? We may not live in a society where government and private corporations collude to track your every move — not yet anyways. But, we are fast [...]

How the health care supporters are finally getting organized

August 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment

They’re calling in the SEIU of course. The advantages of this of course are obvious: They’re already organized and staffed. You don’t have to worry about paying them since they’re on salary. If you’re a Democrat, you don’t have to question their loyalty. You don’t have to worry about explaining what the issue is. You [...]

Obama lurches away from his core

July 10th, 2008 | No Comments

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 [...]

1% of internet is porn?

November 18th, 2006 | No Comments

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. [...]

ACLU endorses the Patriot Act?

October 30th, 2006 | No Comments

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 [...]

Governor’s Execution Order Draws Fire

December 28th, 2004 | No Comments

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 [...]