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No Protection For The Innocent

September 28, 2006 John Bil or Rights, Dennis Hastert, Nancy Pelosi, Terrorism, Terrorist

We’ve heard the rhetoric before. Republicans are repackaging their “tough on crime” speeches as “tough on terror” and complaining that

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So Long To The Constitution

September 11, 2006February 2, 2010 John CIA, Guantanamo, Interrogations, Toture

What Bush is doing in the run-up to the midterm elections is a disgrace equal to any other scandal of his nasty, incipiently despotic, regime. Using the hallowed anniversary of 9/11, he has demanded Congress pass a law that enables the major terrorist suspects, until now held in CIA secret prisons all over the world, to be transferred and tried at Guantanamo.

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Wack Job Katherine Harris At It Again

August 28, 2006 John DSM, florida, Katherine Harris, republicans, U.S. Senate, Wack Job

Katherine Harris, as quoted in the Florida Baptist Witness: Separation of church and state is “a lie we have been told,” Harris said in the interview, published Thursday, saying separating religion and politics is “wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.” “If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris said.

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Administration Seeks to Narrow War Crimes Act

August 10, 2006March 25, 2008 John Congress, Geneva conventions, Red Cross, War crimes

The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a U.S. war crimes law “passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions.” The changes would mean interrogators would no longer face possible prosecution for committing “outrages upon [the] personal dignity” of prisoners.

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No Delay for DeLay

August 7, 2006August 7, 2006 John Antonin Scalia, Tom DeLay

As you know, the Fifth Circuit Court ruled that Tom DeLay had to stay on the Texas Congressional Ballot for the Republican party. The Republicans were asking Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to intervine and stay the ruling.