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Off The Cuff: How Do You Start A Revolution?

February 6, 2008 – 5:08 pm

Presenting The CaseI am thinking a lot about the concept of revolution, these days. At this point, most people in the United States can agree that something has gone terribly wrong. We may disagree about when it started to go that way (my personal contention being “with Teddy Roosevelt”), or how far away […]

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Blueprint for the Disintegration of America

December 10, 2007 – 5:49 pm

Bumper stickers as the modern version of political activism… Photo by cesar bojorquez. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Recently, there has been an increasing amount of talk centering on the possibility (or even probability) that President Bush and his administration are going to declare martial law and bring around a new fascist state. […]

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Getting On The Terrorist Watch List

May 17, 2007 – 10:13 am

Everyone is suspect, now… Photo by Bryan Rosengrant. (License: Creative Commons Attribution) After reading a report earlier this week which references various law enforcement pamphlets which detail behaviours of potential terrorists (“If you encounter any of the following, call the Joint Terrorism Task Force”), I was quite naturally inspired to look back over the […]

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The New Battleground: Freedom of Speech

May 11, 2007 – 8:15 am

Photo by Miyoko Schmez. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
—First Amendment of […]

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Gonzales vs. Jefferson: Making Sense of Crazy People

May 31, 2006 – 10:44 am

Well, as many of you know, there is a bit of a tizzy going on up in Washington, D.C. Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) got his law offices raided by the F.B.I. Suddenly, Congress is interested in protecting Constitutionally-guaranteed rights. The F.B.I., and Attorney General Gonzales, claim they were completely within their rights to […]

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Change the Constitution?

May 25, 2006 – 10:42 am

As a result of the comment thread on another article, I started thinking about Constitutional Amendments. As some of you who have read my other articles may know, I am a big proponent of adhering to the precepts set out in the Constitution. That most important document lays out a pretty good system of […]

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Open Letter To Senator Richard Burr

March 16, 2006 – 10:25 am

Dear Mr. Senator,
I recently wrote to you to express my concern about the NSA program of warrantless wiretapping. I presented you with specific and reasonable arguments as to why this was an unjustified and unnecessary invasion of the privacy of American citizens.
I found your pre-carved response to me unsatisfying, Mr. Senator. I listed examples […]

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3 Points Against Bush

March 15, 2006 – 10:21 am

In my original posting on this topic, I listed the following three points:
1. Illegally authorized and supported a warrantless wiretap program, and when caught had the audacity to claim he had been given the authority by Congress, and then claimed the Constitution gave him the right, anyway. Anytime you use the Constitution to justify […]

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