A leading Christianist, Tony Perkins, is now saying that "civil unions" in California are fine. Great. So let's ask the Family Research Council to support a full federal civil unions bill, with all the rights and responsibilities of civil marriage. President-elect Obama would be glad to help.Read more... )

From the Democratic Party platform, as quoted in Reason magazine:

"We will not ship away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far off countries, or detain without trial or charge prisoners who can and should be brought to justice for their crimes, or maintain a network of secret prisons to jail people beyond the reach of the law. We ( Read more... )

"The nation's telecoms are just one vote away from being free from lawsuits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans without warrants, as the Senate is scheduled this week to vote on a bill that frees the nation's largest telecoms from suits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans illegally ( Read more... )

You could make a fuel-oxidizer bomb that would kill dozens of people using groceries, oxygen from the air, a reasonably well equipped kitchen, and a basic knowledge of chemistry. Which of those should we make illegal in the name of stopping terrorism?

Sentator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) speaks eloquently and rationally about the risk to America and its people should Congress pass the new FISA wiretap law, which will forgive phone companies for participating in the NSA's illegal warrantless spying on the entire nation ( Read more... )

Forget the labor unions and the televangelists, here's an endorsement I respect:

http://lessig.org/blog/2007/11/4barack.html

A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court ( Read more... )

“Sir, this is an improvised electronic device. You will never be allowed to fly with this.”http://vivara.net/blog/?p=61Read more... )

WASHINGTON -- President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ( Read more... )

After the recent religious discussion, I thought an alternate view might be worthwhile ( Read more... )