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Be a free voice! en Vox Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:22:08 -0400 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/fix-the-usa-patriot-act.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/fix-the-usa-patriot-act.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/fix-the-usa-patriot-act.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:22:08 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/video/6a00ccff93cc28d7560123ddaa85dc860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00ccff93cc28d7560123ddaa85dc860b-50si" alt="Fox on PATRIOT: A Video Fisking" /></a> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/video/6a00ccff93cc28d7560123ddbf7643860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00ccff93cc28d7560123ddbf7643860c-50si" alt="Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/fix-the-usa-patriot-act.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d7560123ddbf766d860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> civil liberties patriot act nsl usa patriot act national security letters justice act nsls get fisa right http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/re-jim-i-need-your-voice-on-health-care--sorry-sir.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/re-jim-i-need-your-voice-on-health-care--sorry-sir.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/re-jim-i-need-your-voice-on-health-care--sorry-sir.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 24 May 2009 15:48:07 -0400 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/re-jim-i-need-your-voice-on-health-care--sorry-sir.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d7560110164fd3c8860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> civil liberties surveillance rule of law fisa state secrets http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/republicans-republicanism-and-the-republic.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/republicans-republicanism-and-the-republic.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/republicans-republicanism-and-the-republic.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 10 May 2009 13:35:41 -0400 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/republicans-republicanism-and-the-republic.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d75601101647683c860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics life choice gay marriage republicans msm extremism founders polarization http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/what-does-it-mean-to-get-fisa-right.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/what-does-it-mean-to-get-fisa-right.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/what-does-it-mean-to-get-fisa-right.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:07:13 -0500 [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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/what-does-it-mean-to-get-fisa-right.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d756011017ae9514860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics civil liberties patriot act fisa usa patriot act getfisaright http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/on-sex-and-evolution-and-politics.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/on-sex-and-evolution-and-politics.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/on-sex-and-evolution-and-politics.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:34:49 -0500 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/on-sex-and-evolution-and-politics.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d756010981182430000c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sex marriage politics love psychology evolution marriage equality http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/commander-in-chief-of-all-the-american-people.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/commander-in-chief-of-all-the-american-people.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/commander-in-chief-of-all-the-american-people.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:09:03 -0400 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/commander-in-chief-of-all-the-american-people.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d75600fae8cfa327000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> president civil liberties constitution commander in chief tpm militarism joe watkins http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/i-think-i-understand-the-fisa-bill-do-i.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/i-think-i-understand-the-fisa-bill-do-i.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/i-think-i-understand-the-fisa-bill-do-i.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:47 -0400 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/i-think-i-understand-the-fisa-bill-do-i.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d75600fad69b2a9f0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics us constitution fisa 4th amendment http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/quiet-revolutions.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/quiet-revolutions.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/quiet-revolutions.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:07:45 -0400 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. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/quiet-revolutions.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d75600fa9685fad70002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> civil liberties telecom magna carta habeas corpus martial law posse comitatus fisa insurrection act http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/a-house-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/a-house-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/a-house-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:29:05 -0400 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/a-house-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d75600fad694d83a0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics liberty franklin lincoln habeas corpus fear mongering divisiveness http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/school-girl-vs-professional-journalist.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Brons) http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/school-girl-vs-professional-journalist.html?_c=feed-rss http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/school-girl-vs-professional-journalist.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:23:50 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/video/6a00ccff93cc28d75600e398dc63800002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00ccff93cc28d75600e398dc63800002-50si" alt="Wallace: Protecting the rights..." /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://libertas.vox.com/library/post/school-girl-vs-professional-journalist.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff93cc28d75600e398dc6f3a0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> marriage politics bush fox journalism gay marriage same-sex marriage rights rove karl rove chris wallace choate marla spivak