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I got asked to stop taking photographs on a RyanAir flight earlier in the week. When I asked the attendant why, he couldn't answer. So I didn't stop. Saved By: webponce | View Details | Give Thanks
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Have users rights on (portable) social networks? Christian Scholz outlines some of them. Saved By: Carsten Pötter | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 12:52:12 by Aidenag
Another former Justice Department lawyer went before Congress on Wednesday with few answers for his Democratic interrogators and a spotty memory. Time and again during his confirmation hearing, Hans von Spakovsky cited either the attorney-client privilege or a cloudy memory for his purported role in restricting minorities' voting rights.
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 10:47:05 by Aidenag
In recent years, the Bush administration has recast the federal government's role in civil rights by aggressively pursuing religion-oriented cases while significantly diminishing its involvement in the traditional area of race.
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 5:57:15 by Alexia
On June 5th, 2007, the California State Assembly passed AB 43, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, which grants same-sex couples the right to marry. A lot of folks--including legislators and a few presidential candidates--are saying we shouldn't be talking about such things "in a time of war."
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 19:50:55 by populist
former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) expressed his disagreement with Powell about closing Guantanamo, saying "most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo and less like the state prisons that people are in in the United States."
added 2007 Sat Jun 9 19:53:53 by STONERS
A civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been charged with incest.
added 2007 Sat Jun 9 16:37:39 by populist
Thomas Jefferson said religion was "a matter which lies solely between man and his God." Therefore, the citizens of the fledgling country Jefferson helped create would have an unparalleled freedom: To seek Truth and Knowledge without the leash of government telling them how to do it.
added 2007 Fri Jun 8 17:50:44 by populist
It's a dangerous and frightening time in America today as the nation hurtles toward tyranny, and our right to speak out and protest continues being challenged and undermined. That makes the battle for the last frontier of press freedom crucial to preserving our fragile democracy now somewhere between life support and the crematorium.

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added 2007 Thu Jun 7 22:01:59 by populist
The Kerry Edwards 2004 campaign says Bill Clinton tried to throw gays under the bus. Bill Clinton's office says it's not true. Who do we believe? And what does this mean for Hillary Clinton's presidential run?
added 2007 Tue Jun 5 22:48:09 by populist
From hate state to great state? Colorado's transformation over the past few weeks is nothing short of amazing.
added 2007 Sat Jun 2 17:19:45 by Stephen Johnson
By Ross Kaminsky - The biggest problem with gay activism is that they want to be treated as special or as victims when it suits them, and as "just like anybody else" when it suits them. Indeed that is the problem with activists of many stripes, not just based on sexual orientation. In my view, they are not special, and although they have
added 2007 Fri Jun 1 1:17:13 by populist
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, has announced a series of hearings titled "The Constitution in Crisis: The State of Civil Liberties in America.
added 2007 Thu May 31 17:20:27 by populist
Gov. John Lynch signed legislation Thursday that will legalize civil unions for gay couples starting in January.
added 2007 Thu May 31 3:53:59 by populist
Mitt Romney, that used car salesman presidential candidate, has come up with a new whopper to convince us to buy his Edsel: "I am not anti-gay."
added 2007 Mon May 28 3:34:38 by KLopez
Derya, 17, is the picture of innocence. But Derya is here at this women's shelter in rural Turkey because her family wants her dead. Her crime: talking to a male classmate on her cell phone-the closest thing to dates many teens in strict Islamic societies have before marriage.
added 2007 Sun May 27 20:34:43 by lovelytxwoman
MOSCOW, Gay rights activists trying to raise support for gay pride parades were beaten and pelted with eggs and garbage, then arrested in Moscow Sunday. The activists were trying to deliver a petition to the city's mayor, demanding the right to hold parades, when protesters began beating them and chanting, "Moscow is not Sodom," the B
added 2007 Thu May 24 6:31:04 by populist
In a post-9/11 climate, the right of free expression is under attack and endangered in the age of George Bush when dissent may be called a threat to national security, terrorism, or treason.
added 2007 Tue May 22 10:34:54 by ind06
THE ONION NEWS NETWORK: A new bill would require any woman seeking an abortion to obtain the consent of her fetus.
added 2007 Wed May 16 23:26:31 by populist
The government's briefs claimed that it needs to read attorney-client communications because lawyers have "presented security issues" at the base by giving detainees information about, inter alia, political developments that might affect Congress, or White House OLC memos concerning official torture policies
added 2007 Sun May 13 23:49:33 by msaleem
Man Says Boss Didn't Like His Lifestyle
added 2007 Fri May 11 13:16:19 by gatitabonitasen
Hiasl, a 26-year old Austrian-based chimpanzee, is petitioning the courts for human status, and let me be the first to extend him a warm welcome to our species. My animal rights activism has never gone beyond the cage-free eggs' stage; it's the human possibilities raised by Hiasl's case that caught my attention. If a chimpanzee can be declared a
added 2007 Fri May 11 7:08:38 by populist
The American People should contact their various legislators, remind them of their oath, and inform them that they will not receive another vote unless they do their duty and uphold the Constitution they promised to protect and defend.
added 2007 Thu May 10 21:43:45 by BoBo in Texas
Many said that if George W. Bush were reelected we'd see Americans punished for expressing their ideas. I guess they were right!
added 2007 Wed May 9 19:19:52 by populist
We either stand for our principles -- all of our principles -- and the rule of law, or we have allowed the terrorists to win. I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to make a few phone calls and tell elected officials to stand up for the Constitution and the rule of law.
added 2007 Sat May 5 12:22:08 by RizlaRoll
Since the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 abortion-rights decision in Roe v. Wade,1 the law has taken the lead in defining the contours of the continuing public debate over reproductive liberty.
added 2007 Fri May 4 6:18:35 by TechnologyExpert
The FBI will open a civil rights inquiry into the Los Angeles Police Department's actions at an immigration rally at which officers cleared a park by wielding batons and firing rubber bullets, the bureau said Thursday.
added 2007 Thu May 3 19:43:11 by populist
Sixteen words may be all that stand right now between the apparatus of government and the Founding Fathers' worst nightmare. And those words are starting to give. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . ."
added 2007 Wed May 2 3:46:33 by bubba2
Women were far better off under former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein, a women's group has found after an extensive survey in Iraq. Under Saddam, women could go out to work, university, and get married or divorced in civil courts. But at the moment women have lost almost all their rights and are being pushed back into the corner of their house.
added 2007 Thu Apr 26 22:28:46 by pawfoots
"The Pentagon's surveillance program undermined the constitution and eroded Americans' privacy rights, Sharra E. Greer, director of law and policy for SLDN, said Thursday.