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  • Excellent!

    This article is ''spot on.'' This is not only a civil rights issue; it is a civil liberties issue. When, in the name of the First and Fourth Amendments to the US Constitution is one vulnerable to arrest for objecting to the police's undue presence, after producing ID in one's own home? When did our homes cease to be castles that deserve to be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by ShirleyJ on July 28, 2009

  • Ricci Limerick

    I'm behind in my reading, and I can't believe no one took Ms. Lithwick up on her invitation to find a limerick for the Ricci case, so I've surely missed the relevant thread. But I took a crack at it, and here 'tis: If New Haven's standards were too exact, Their results were sure to have disparate impact. But for poor, Mr. Ricci Will they ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by gluon1 on June 30, 2009

  • The Truths of Michael Moore

    Yes, that would be a better title. I think that that there are so many duped people in the world that want to go on blindly being led. I have watched Michael Moore's Sicko three times and find it very enlightening. People who expose the wrongs of our society and put themselves on that stage for everyone to see and hear are always going to receive ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by greg3 on February 28, 2009

  • moyers speaks for the underdogs today

    Thanks for the researched article. Yes, it's too bad he did all that. Wow, though, look at him today. Look, how far Moyers has come. Maybe there are other young, zealous workers who will be inspired to transform also. As an elderly journalist, Moyers has been on the forefront of protecting our civil liberties. He worked tirelessly to expose ...
    Posted to Press Box by bruschetta on February 22, 2009

  • Hitchens intentionally misleads on Obama's "false choice"?

    ''Then one can hardly overpraise the repudiation, annexed from Franklin even if he may not actually have said it, of ''the false choice between our safety and our ideals.'' This acted as a curtain-raiser for the important restatement of the ideals themselves: We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by conlawprize on January 26, 2009

  • Unconnected Dots of Dumb Stovepipes

    terrabytes and petabytesrammed up stovepipes data mined for needlesin millions of haystacks fed to cherry pickersfixing dots with the facts privateers of privacywith carpet bomb access know more about youthan you yourself a thousand false positivesworth one true hit put all thousand and oneon a terrorist list a privatized protectorategets ...
    Posted to War Stories by barry payne - economist on January 7, 2009

  • REBOOT THE SYSTEM??

    If Obama does as you seem to suggest, that we acknowledge that some wrong was done but we have to let bygones be bygones, reboot the system so to speak, then we have admitted in the full light of day that we have a multitiered legal system, not blind justice. It will always be disruptive to have investigations and possible prosecutions, but ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by gloriarouse on December 8, 2008

  • How does a democrat tick?

    Democrats are into politics for the sole purpose of obscuring the definition of morality, and passing subsequent laws that make morality illegal in the United States. Democrats want all lights to be green and let everyone fend for themselves at the intersections. Because of the irresponsible and inconsiderate lifestyle of this misrepresentation ...
    Posted to War Stories by Firefly on October 3, 2008

  • The Big Bailout...Ha!

    There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008

  • Middle class?

    You think a US State Governor, Sarah Palin, is middle class? How exactly? This is so offensive to anyone, like myself, who actually grew up middle class. I'm sorry, but when you're Governor, it doesn't really matter how much money you make. You have power. That's something middle class families don't have. Power. Powerless over ...
    Posted to Politics by gw001 on September 4, 2008
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