Vox Libertas

Fix the USA PATRIOT Act

2009-10-07T21:22:08Z

In the last couple of weeks very important things have been going on in the realm of Civil Liberties, and our concern for issues like Health Care, Iran, Afghanistan and the Chicago bid for the Olympics have distracted us from it. And it is not go...

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Re: Jim, I need your voice on health care--Sorry, sir

2009-05-24T19:48:07Z

Mr. President, It is with great sadness and regret that I must decline your emailed request. I do this with intimate and personal knowledge of how important this legislation is. I am a computer consultant by profession, and with the downturn in ...

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Republicans, Republicanism and the Republic

2009-05-10T17:35:41Z

The news last week was that only 20-30% of Americans are willing to identify themselves as "Republicans". When John Dvorak's blog polled its users as to their politics and party affiliation and asked them what the Republicans needed to do about th...

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What does it mean to "get FISA right"?

2009-03-05T17:07:13Z

[In order to get the discussion moving I posted this at GetFISAright and Change.org yesterday. Today, it is going to all versions of Vox Libertas except DKos. It will follow there. Please join the discussion in any or all of these. It is importan...

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On Sex and Evolution and Politics

2008-12-22T23:34:49Z

And now for something completely different... Usually I write here in Vox Libertas about politics, about the Rule of Law, the Constitution, the behavior of our elected leaders and the dangers that I see in the growing trend to authoritarianism, ol...

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Commander in Chief of all the American people?

2008-07-26T22:09:03Z

On Thursday, I noticed something on The Verdict that really bothered me. The next day, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo commented on the same general issue, though he did not mention the particular incident that had caught my eye. On the Ver...

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I think I understand the FISA bill. Do I?

2008-07-19T20:06:47Z

By way of disclosure, I am something of a Civil Liberties fanatic, and am firmly convinced that Obama did the wrong thing on retroactive immunity and am angry about that. Also, I haven't trusted George W. Bush since the first 10 secs I saw him s...

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Quiet Revolutions

2008-07-10T00:07:45Z

Today the rule of law, the checks and balances and the rights reserved in the Bill of Rights were damaged as the FISA act was once again altered and retroactive immunity was authorized for law breaking telecoms. A lot has been written about this. ...

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A house divided against itself cannot stand.

2008-06-28T23:29:05Z

Just over 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln warned us that "a house divided against itself cannot stand". While the image of national disunion, prophetic as it was, was what captured the national imagination, his actual message was not that the house...

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School Girl vs "Professional Journalist"

2008-02-14T03:23:50Z

Two news stories recently caught my eye, not only for what each one told us about the state of the Republic, but even more so, what comparing them tells us about the sorry state of journalism today. In the first story, Chris Wallace of Fox News m...

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