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Entries Tagged as 'Civil Rights'

1932 – 2009

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Teddy Kennedy

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Tags: Angels · Civil Rights · Congress · Democrats · Health Care Reform · Human Rights · Immigration · Ted Kennedy

Weekend Blog Sampler — FISA

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

This week, the House Democrats capitulated to Bush and the telecommunications companies. (Senator and Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama says he will fight to strip telecom immunity from the bill when it gets to the Senate.) And you just know this kicked up a storm in the liberal blogosphere, as well it should. We [...]

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Tags: Bush · Civil Rights · Democrats · FISA · Privacy · Weekend Blog Sampler

Supreme Court Smackdown! Bush loses, democracy wins.

June 29th, 2006 · No Comments

It ain’t Fitzmas, but it’s a gift all the same.
Justices: Bush went too far at Guantanamo
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in creating military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies. The case, one of the most significant involving [...]

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Tags: Bush · Civil Rights · The Supremes

Angels & Assholes: Flag burning

June 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Common sense and civil liberties have prevailed in the Senate – by one vote.

A proposed amendment to outlaw flag burning was voted down in the Senate
Tuesday, the Senate voted down a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting flag burning and other “desecration.”This appalling waste of time and money was, of course, a sheerly political [...]

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Tags: Angels & Assholes · Civil Rights · Congress

The good, the bad, and the ironic

June 20th, 2006 · No Comments

The good:
New US church leader says homosexuality no sin
Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.
The bad:
Pentagon lists homosexuality as disorder
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, [...]

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Tags: Civil Rights · Teh Gay

You shoulda had sex on the kitchen table while you still could

June 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Bull Durham, one of the great baseball movies, has a scene in which Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner have sex on a kitchen table. They make it look hot, though anyone who’s actually tried it can tell you it’s more uncomfortable than sexy.
Of course, sex on the kitchen table – much like sex in [...]

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Tags: Civil Rights · The Supremes

Book burning, hate crimes, taking a stand, and going home.

June 15th, 2006 · No Comments

AARGH! I hate oversleeping. I like to ease gently into the day. Jumping out of bed and rushing around leaves me foggy-brained and irritable for a good part of the morning.
Waiting for the coffee to kick in and jumpstart said brain, I am essentially on automatic pilot this morning. Normally, I [...]

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Tags: Blogs & Bloggers · Campaign 2006 · Civil Rights · Teh Gay

First, they came for the immigrants.

June 8th, 2006 · No Comments

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In October, 2000, if you had predicted a George W. Bush presidency would include the Vice President lobbying the Senate for the right to torture people, you would have been called an alarmist nutjob. If you had predicted the President, himself, would threaten to veto any legislation that curbed torture of prisoners [...]

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Tags: Civil Rights · Immigration

Miranda was a slimeball, too

April 26th, 2006 · 3 Comments

One of the slimier slimeballs of our time is undoubtedly Fred Phelps. He and his travelling band of hate-filled nutjobs are obsessed with gay people to a point that makes even some of the fundiest of fundies back off and disown them. These sick bastards are so consumed with other people’s sex lives [...]

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Tags: Civil Rights · Teh Gay

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