The Top 100 Civil Liberties Advocacy Blogs
I'm number 23.
The Top 100 Civil Liberties Advocacy Blogs
I'm number 23.
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I'll be pretty busy for the next few weeks and my access to the internet will be scarce. I should've expected it; it seems when my traffic spikes, I haven't the time to blog.
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I've worked 6-day and 7-day workweeks, and this would be me if I was still doing them:
And who doesn't love the 4-10s?
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Talk about a control freak, er, I mean Robert Mugabe, quite possibly in the lead for 'world's biggest dumbass' with Kim Jong Il and half of hollywood neck and neck for second.
With only three weeks to go before Zimbabwe’s presidential runoff, the police briefly detained the opposition’s standard-bearer, Morgan Tsvangirai, on Friday for the second time this week and directed his party to cancel political rallies, effectively preventing him from addressing voters.The only logical explanation must be that once Zimbabwe hits bottom, there's no way but up baby. One might suggest that Mugabe is in fact, evil, and an idiot, but third-world leaders are never evil, and only when they buddy up with the United States are they idiots.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition presidential candidate, campaigning Friday. The police, citing concerns about safety for his party’s leaders, ordered the cancellation of rallies he had planned.
At the same time, the Zimbabwean government’s requirement that all nongovernmental organizations suspend their aid operations, which grew out of the authorities’ allegations that some were supporting the opposition, was condemned Friday by officials in the United States and Europe, as well as the United Nations.
Relief agencies said the order, issued this week, would deprive millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans of food aid and other basic assistance. Unicef, for example, depends on 25 nongovernmental organizations to provide education, health care and food to 185,000 orphans in Zimbabwe.
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Light blogging today, so I'll just start out with a bunch of links for your reading pleasure:
The AP calls the Democratic nomination for Obama, and amid rumors of her campaign coming to an end, Hillary says she is willing to be Obama's VP.
"I have asked Father Michael Pfleger, Pastor of St. Sabina’s Parish, to step back from his obligations there and take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties, effective today."
Happy couple is surprised to find out they've been divorced for ten years.
PETA wants to lease a jail in order to show how Lobsters are like people, or something.
Is this more of the nanny-state, fighting back the tide of destructive culture, or is it for the children?
Chicks dig your Camaro Prius. Then again, they're probably lying.
"There is a line as public defenders we cannot walk across. The judicial system is crumbling.''
Trollbait: Is shooting up heroin a right? Don't worry it's Canada.
And this is just weird.
One more thing: Krauthammer, the Global Warming agnostic.
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A Utah woman calls 911 because she can't unlock her car doors... from the inside.
A woman called Orem police Friday afternoon needing help because her battery died and she was locked inside her car...Which begs the question, if she can't figure out how to manually unlock a door, should she even be driving?
Once officers were able to talk to the woman on the phone, they were able to tell her how to manually operate the slide lock mechanism on the inside door panel to open the door and free herself.
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Mostly. Blogger's been down all morning, but seems to be working now... slowly.
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Wyoming. Nah, you probably guessed right; Britain.
Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.I'm not making this up. Here's the link. Here's the Offensive Evil Shirt:
IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.
He thought the boss would "see sense" — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: "My mate set off the alarms and was searched.
"But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’."
Oh my, that IS a big gun. And the money quote:"It’s a cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?"I'm reminded of a song by Brad Paisley. In one of the verses, he refers to the now popular movement in which men line up to get neutered, manicured, waxed, & botox'd... Much like Britain apparently has.
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It just needs to be signed by the Governor.
The changes will make it easier for motorists to carry weapons in their cars and in school zones and will prohibit landlords from forbidding tenants from having guns in their rented residences...Good.
"A lot of people believe that's the current law, that you have the ability to protect you and your family in your house," Mr. Buehrer said. "They are shocked to find out that's not the case. The general law in Ohio is if you're attacked, you have a duty to retreat. The courts have recognized that if you're in your home, you don't have a duty to retreat, but we're only one prosecutor or one judge away from losing that right in case law in Ohio."
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Not like your typical celebrity who often says one thing and does another, Angelina Jolie is just plain badass:
ANGELINA Jolie says she will shoot anyone harming her kids – with her own Tomb Raider-style guns.And for, uh, referencing purposes, the HK pictured below...
She has bought real versions of the weapons she used in the hit movie.
And the 32-year-old babe – famous for playing action girl Lara Croft – insisted: “I’ve no problem shooting anybody coming into my home who tries to hurt my kids.”
Angelina, who has four children and is currently pregnant with twins, carried a 9mm Heckler and Koch handgun in Tomb Raider.
Now she and partner Brad Pitt, 44, have their own.
She explained: “I bought original, real guns of the type we used in Tomb Raider for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house and we do have one. And yes, I’d be able to use it if I had to.”
(Yes, you can click the image to embiggen)
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Megan McArdle asks what many people in D.C. will (likely) be asking themselves in the near future:
So if Heller, as libertarians devoutly hope, legalizes gun ownership in DC, the question immediately arises for those of us who live here: buy one, or not? On the one hand, they are expensive, and shooting ranges far away. On the other hand, I live alone in an apartment that is something less than amply fortified.Here's my answer for what it's worth. Yes.
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Good.
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that children who were separated from their parents following a raid on a polygamist ranch should be returned.I've commented on this before, and it's good to see the state's overly aggressive CPS agency be put to shame.
The ruling effectively ends one of the largest child custody cases in U.S. history.
[I]n its ruling on Thursday, the Texas Supreme Court said that child welfare officials overstepped their authority by pulling the children from their homes and that the kids should be returned.
"There has been a catastrophic, emotional and physical trauma to these families," said FLDS member Will Jessop. "Permanent damage that will be left on them for a lifetime."
"Two wrongs do not make a right," Jessop added. "This is truly a nightmare that we have waken up to, and hopefully have it end."
The justices based their ruling on an appellate court's finding last week that no evidence has yet been presented showing that the children really were being abused -- physically or sexually.
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Republicans need to be Republicans. The greatest threat to classic Republicanism is not liberalism; it's this new brand of libertarianism, which is social liberalism and economic conservatism, but it's a heartless, callous, soulless type of economic conservatism because it says "look, we want to cut taxes and eliminate government. If it means that elderly people don't get their Medicare drugs, so be it. If it means little kids go without education and healthcare, so be it."I thought small government was the core of Republican, nay, classic Republican principles. I guess as long as Uncle Sam doesn't lay a finger on our wallets, he's more than welcome to tell us what we can and can't do in our own bedrooms.
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Children as young as 6 have been forced to have sex with aid workers and peacekeepers in return for food and money, Save the Children UK said in a report released Tuesday.If you read the whole thing you'll find mention of an investigation that started last year, where a handful were jailed, and a few others faced the gallows, er, I mean they were dismissed or repatriated. Talk about effective deterrence.
After interviewing hundreds of children, the charity said it found instances of rape, child prostitution, pornography, indecent sexual assault and trafficking of children for sex.
"It is hard to imagine a more grotesque abuse of authority or flagrant violation of children's rights," said Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children UK.
In the report, "No One To Turn To" a 15-year-old girl from Haiti told researchers: "My friends and I were walking by the National Palace one evening when we encountered a couple of humanitarian men. The men called us over and showed us their penises.
"They offered us 100 Haitian gourdes ($2.80) and some chocolate if we would suck them. I said, 'No,' but some of the girls did it and got the money."
Save the Children says that almost as shocking as the abuse itself is the "chronic under-reporting" of the abuses. It believes that thousands more children around the world could be suffering in silence.
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There are a lot of unanswered questions, which, on their face point to nothing less than criminal negligence, if not out-right murder. Under a plea agreement, she will be sentenced June 27 to time already served - about 30 days of jail time and about 695 days of electronic monitoring. She also will be placed on five years' probation, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Judge Kathleen Kennedy warned Ashcraft she could face up to 10 years in prison if she violates probation. It was "a fair ending to a tragic situation," said her attorney, Mark Geragos.
The woman who brought her child to term, gave birth and placed it in a garbage dumpster where it was found dead. Allahpundit asks the obvious but important questions linked above; If she didn't want the baby, why not abort it? And if it was stillborn, why dispose of it that way?
A fair ending? Fair perhaps if she was extremely mentally handicap and couldn't tell right from wrong. I don't know what kind of educational standards they have at USC, but I don't think a person could make it to their third year without having the capacity to at least seek help for a newborn or stillborn, which would be the only situation making this sentence even close to being fair.
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"All’s fair in love, war, and politics. Put on your big boy pants and step in the game. Now, back to my regularly scheduled not giving a shit about Michelle Obama’s feelings."
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Solving the oil crisis, one backyard at a time:
An Indiana man is capitalizing on high crude oil prices with his own oil well - in his back yard.Though it's probably just a matter of time before this behavior is artificially disincentivized.
Greg Losh tells WISH-T-V in Indianapolis the well that produces three barrels of oil a day is "a money-maker."
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Is what every law enforcement officer should be doing in most instances, always being cordial during their daily encounters with us...
I see that Yavapai County Sheriff has a slightly modified interpretation of this approach.
Via Coyote Blog.
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Get this, the Burma military junta just won an election, overwhelmingly:
Myanmar announced Thursday that a constitution won massive support in a referendum — a claim slammed by a leading rights group as an insult to the country's people.In Burma (or Myanmar as the junta prefers), the people place civic duty above other pesky priorities, like finding food, clean water, shelter, and gathering and burying their dead after a devastating cyclone. They also apparently find the junta's handling of the devastation top-notch.
The document, which critics say will cement nearly four decades of military rule, was approved by 92.4 percent of the 22 million eligible voters last Saturday.
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