It seems that Obama is setting up one important foundation of his experience as a campaign asset: His experience as a professor in constitutional law. I just don’t hear John McCain, or Hillary Clinton for that matter, talk about the need to restore constitutional rights in the way that Barack Obama does. It’s no wonder that Senator Dodd chose Barack Obama to endorse.

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The FISA Amendments Act gives the government the power to send spies to search your home or office while you are gone, without any search warrant, without any judicial approval at all, and never tell you that they were there. Again, if the FISA Amendments Act becomes law you won’t have to even be suspected of a crime. The government will be able to search your home for no reason at all, or for political reasons, or because you’re gay, or because you’re African-American, or because you’re not a member of the right religion, or just because somewhere in the government there is somebody who doesn’t like you.

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We have learned since Mark Twain’s time that having a vote is not enough. People have to actually use their votes. What’s more, people need to use their votes after educating themselves on the relevant issues.

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A green face animated video discusses the sham promise of Homeland Security, that we can all be safe if only we sacrifice our liberty.

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Why is it time for a more progressive president? It’s a simple matter of numbers; most Americans are asking for one. 59% of Americans say they would “like the next president to do more to protect civil liberties while fighting terrorism.” If most Americans are asking for a new president who is […]

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Many Americans worry that a right wing President could continue the momentum gained through George W. Bush’s judicial appointments toward an overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. If Roe v. Wade were overturned, then many states would probably ban abortion once again, as they did decades ago.
If Republican presidential candidate Mike […]

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“Divorce is just terrible,” Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, said. “It’s one of Satan’s best tools to kill America.”
I don’t think you’d find many people in the United States who would proclaim that divorce is just a hunky-dory process that should be encouraged whenever possible. But there are times and situations in which divorce […]

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In a USA Today editorial this morning, Republican Congressman Trent Franks manages to warp the fabric of American freedom in two different ways in his effort to justify torture.
First, he claims that “America’s distinguishing hallmark, its bedrock foundation, is that we hold to the self-evident truth that all men are created by God”. Of […]

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Never fear all the huge government programs to spy against you, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says. You can keep your privacy… just so long as you don’t include the idea of privacy within your definition of privacy.
Does that not quite make sense? Well, just catch the way that the […]

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