Public marks with search amendment Public marks with search amendment http://blogmarks.net/marks/search/amendment Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations | Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/administration-asserts-no-fourth-amendment-domestic-military-operations In short, it appears that the Administration may view NSA domestic surveillance, including the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans detailed in EFF's Hepting case, as a "domestic military operation." If so, this Yoo memo would blow a loophole in the Fourth Amendment big enough to fit all of our everyday telephone calls, web searches, instant messages and emails through. 2008-04-02T20:13:13Z mbertier monde2merde, usa, surveillance

Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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In short, it appears that the Administration may view NSA domestic surveillance, including the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans detailed in EFF's Hepting case, as a "domestic military operation." If so, this Yoo memo would blow a loophole in the Fourth Amendment big enough to fit all of our everyday telephone calls, web searches, instant messages and emails through.

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]]> Killing the 1st Amendment planned--Fairness Doct http://hearmythunder.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=forum&board=elections&op=display&num=412&start=0 Prepare for a major, frontal assault on the First Amendment – perhaps the worst in American history. 2008-02-24T22:15:58Z WebAPP plitics

Killing the 1st Amendment planned--Fairness Doct

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Prepare for a major, frontal assault on the First Amendment – perhaps the worst in American history.

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]]> Amendment-backer dogged Domain deal from the start http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/31/1231rodgers.html Brian Rodgers is no City Hall mover and shaker. But he has nonetheless shaken things up with his crusade to stop the tax subsidies that Austin granted to the high-end Domain shopping center in 2003. 2008-02-21T14:08:11Z springnet *****, springnet, business, shopping, domain, politics, texas, austin, springnet blogmarks

Amendment-backer dogged Domain deal from the start

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Brian Rodgers is no City Hall mover and shaker. But he has nonetheless shaken things up with his crusade to stop the tax subsidies that Austin granted to the high-end Domain shopping center in 2003.

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]]> 22nd Amendment http://www.andrewsloat.com/work/22ndamendment/index.html © Andrew Sloat Music: “improv1” from Ptolemy's Guitar by Roland Satterwhite 2007-10-16T19:27:06Z sbrothier typography, video, motiondesign, politics

22nd Amendment

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© Andrew Sloat Music: “improv1” from Ptolemy's Guitar by Roland Satterwhite

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]]> 22nd Amendment on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/341055 un bon split screen. typo. 2007-10-16T14:38:28Z kruty motion, video

22nd Amendment on Vimeo

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un bon split screen. typo.

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]]> Morse v. Frederick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick Morse, et al. v. Frederick, 551 U.S. ___ (2007), was a First Amendment student free speech case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a principal may, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at a school event w... 2007-06-28T12:31:08Z lukeslytalker wikipedia

Morse v. Frederick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Morse, et al. v. Frederick, 551 U.S. ___ (2007), was a First Amendment student free speech case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a principal may, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at a school event w...

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]]> A Look Inside the 2nd Annual OKC Tattoo Convention http://www.oklahomaink.com/articles/a_look_inside_2nd_annual_okc_tattoo_convention.php An indepth look into the upcoming 2nd annual okc tattoo convention hosted by chris brady of fatco - first amendment tattoo company. 2007-04-13T21:29:09Z edfmedia tattoo, oklahoma, convention, fatco

A Look Inside the 2nd Annual OKC Tattoo Convention

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An indepth look into the upcoming 2nd annual okc tattoo convention hosted by chris brady of fatco - first amendment tattoo company.

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]]> PrawfsBlawg: Public Schools as First Amendment Institutions? http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2007/03/public_schools_.html 2007-03-21T17:48:48Z efink law-constitutional, debris

PrawfsBlawg: Public Schools as First Amendment Institutions?

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]]> Balkinization: The Second Amendment is Back, Baby! http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/03/second-amendment-is-back-baby-parker-v.html 2007-03-12T18:19:12Z efink law-constitutional, debris

Balkinization: The Second Amendment is Back, Baby!

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]]> PrawfsBlawg: Universities as First Amendment Institutions: Some Easy Answers and Hard Questions http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2007/03/universities_as.html 2007-03-01T15:28:11Z efink debris, legal, law-constitutional

PrawfsBlawg: Universities as First Amendment Institutions: Some Easy Answers and Hard Questions

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]]> US Schools Given Power To Strip Search Students http://www.starttherevolution.org/archives/2006/j%20-%20october/USSchoolsGivenPowerToStripSearchStudents.htm US schools are going to be allowed to strip-search your children if they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe that they may be carrying weapons, drugs or "dangerous substances," Of course, having recently raped the Fourth Amendment,anyway, Congress c 2006-11-30T09:48:37Z RoseD1 Big-brother-gone-insane

US Schools Given Power To Strip Search Students

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US schools are going to be allowed to strip-search your children if they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe that they may be carrying weapons, drugs or "dangerous substances," Of course, having recently raped the Fourth Amendment,anyway, Congress c

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]]> School Officials Threaten Seventh Grader for Reading Bible http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/press_release.asp?article_id=639 Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit in defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was ordered by Maryland middle school officials to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action. Institute attorneys have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to declare that prohibiting students from reading Bibles or other religious texts during their free time is unconstitutional. 2006-10-03T20:29:19Z jasontromm court, school, religious, stop, free, lawsuit, bible

School Officials Threaten Seventh Grader for Reading Bible

by jasontromm

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit in defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was ordered by Maryland middle school officials to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action. Institute attorneys have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to declare that prohibiting students from reading Bibles or other religious texts during their free time is unconstitutional.

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]]> ACLU Accused of Profiting at Taxpayer Expense http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200608/CUL20060804a.html The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is guilty of "judicial blackmail," according to the American Legion, which is pushing for congressional legislation to end one of the ACLU's streams of revenue. Judges would be stripped of the authority to award attorney fees to the ACLU and similar groups in cases involving the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment Establishment Clause, if the American Legion gets its way. 2006-08-07T15:17:34Z jasontromm american, aclu, liberties

ACLU Accused of Profiting at Taxpayer Expense

by jasontromm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is guilty of "judicial blackmail," according to the American Legion, which is pushing for congressional legislation to end one of the ACLU's streams of revenue. Judges would be stripped of the authority to award attorney fees to the ACLU and similar groups in cases involving the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment Establishment Clause, if the American Legion gets its way.

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]]> 8 Employees Stabbed at Tenn. Grocery Store http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2223323 A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring four before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said. Elartrice Ingram, 21, was charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, police said. The attack apparently stemmed from a work dispute, investigators said. ()() One more example of why we need to keep the 2nd Amendment and Castle Doctrine laws. 2006-07-24T19:51:01Z jasontromm police, work

8 Employees Stabbed at Tenn. Grocery Store

by jasontromm

A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring four before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said. Elartrice Ingram, 21, was charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, police said. The attack apparently stemmed from a work dispute, investigators said. ()() One more example of why we need to keep the 2nd Amendment and Castle Doctrine laws.

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]]> The First Amendment is Dead | TPMCafe http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/jul/16/the_first_amendment_is_dead 2006-07-21T19:21:03Z jey FreedomOfSpeech, law

The First Amendment is Dead | TPMCafe

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]]> 05.18.06 HI: Akaka calls Senate attention to Filipino Veterans' hardship during immigration debate http://www.molokaitimes.com/articles/651811173.asp Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate today unanimously accepted an amendment offered by Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) to grant the children of Filipino World War II veterans special immigrant status for purposes of family reunification. The generation o 2006-06-08T15:52:13Z aflciopolitical news, Akaka, SenateRaces, hi

05.18.06 HI: Akaka calls Senate attention to Filipino Veterans' hardship during immigration debate

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Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate today unanimously accepted an amendment offered by Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) to grant the children of Filipino World War II veterans special immigrant status for purposes of family reunification. The generation o

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]]> Dum Vivo Cano -- Students Sue to Protect Hate Speech http://www.dumvivocano.com/?p=223 In Pennsylvania a group of 3 students is suing the school district saying that their First Amendment rights are being violated because they are unable to harass gay students with hate speech. 2006-05-03T12:35:44Z jessebuck gay, christian, students, glbt, lawsuits, harassment

Dum Vivo Cano -- Students Sue to Protect Hate Speech

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In Pennsylvania a group of 3 students is suing the school district saying that their First Amendment rights are being violated because they are unable to harass gay students with hate speech.

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]]> Slashdot | Tilting At Windmills http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/21/202213 Anne Applebaum writes in the Washington Post about environmentalists who are opposing renewable energy sources." From the article: "Already, activists and real estate developers have stalled projects across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. In Western Maryland, a proposal to build wind turbines alongside a coal mine, on a heavily logged mountaintop next to a transmission line, has just been nixed by state officials who called it too environmentally damaging. Along the coast of Nantucket, Mass. -- the only sufficiently shallow spot on the New England coast -- a coalition of anti-wind groups and summer homeowners, among them the Kennedy family, also seems set to block Cape Wind, a planned offshore wind farm. Their well-funded lobbying last month won them the attentions of Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who, though normally an advocate of a state's right to its own resources, has made an exception for Massachusetts and helped pass an amendment designed to kill the project altogether. 2006-04-21T22:48:57Z multilinko energy, wind, renewable

Slashdot | Tilting At Windmills

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Anne Applebaum writes in the Washington Post about environmentalists who are opposing renewable energy sources." From the article: "Already, activists and real estate developers have stalled projects across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. In Western Maryland, a proposal to build wind turbines alongside a coal mine, on a heavily logged mountaintop next to a transmission line, has just been nixed by state officials who called it too environmentally damaging. Along the coast of Nantucket, Mass. -- the only sufficiently shallow spot on the New England coast -- a coalition of anti-wind groups and summer homeowners, among them the Kennedy family, also seems set to block Cape Wind, a planned offshore wind farm. Their well-funded lobbying last month won them the attentions of Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who, though normally an advocate of a state's right to its own resources, has made an exception for Massachusetts and helped pass an amendment designed to kill the project altogether.

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]]> 04.06.06 ME: House, Senate disagree on minimum wage bill - A.J. Higgins http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131711 AUGUSTA - A bill to increase the minimum wage to $7 an hour by Oct. 1, 2007, ran into trouble Wednesday when the House voted 74-66 for an amendment that reduced the increase and delayed its implementation. After defeating an identical amendment presented 2006-04-06T13:23:40Z aflciopolitical MinimumWage, Maine, LaborLegislation, news

04.06.06 ME: House, Senate disagree on minimum wage bill - A.J. Higgins

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AUGUSTA - A bill to increase the minimum wage to $7 an hour by Oct. 1, 2007, ran into trouble Wednesday when the House voted 74-66 for an amendment that reduced the increase and delayed its implementation. After defeating an identical amendment presented

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]]> Give Arkansas a Raise Now http://www.givearkansasaraisenow.org/ Coalition proposing a constitutional amendment that would increase the minimum wage in Arkansas by $1 an hour (from $5.15 to $6.15) effective January 1, 2007. Starting January 1, 2008, and each January 1 thereafter, the minimum wage would be adjusted base 2006-03-29T20:50:46Z aflciopolitical Arkansas, MinimumWage, ActivistGroups, IssueCampaigns

Give Arkansas a Raise Now

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Coalition proposing a constitutional amendment that would increase the minimum wage in Arkansas by $1 an hour (from $5.15 to $6.15) effective January 1, 2007. Starting January 1, 2008, and each January 1 thereafter, the minimum wage would be adjusted base

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]]> 03.28.06 AR: Solons get behind plan to increase minimum wage http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060328/OPINION01/603280308/1014/OPINION If Gov. Mike Huckabee gets a special legislative session rolling by April 3, lawmakers may head off a constitutional amendment to raise Arkansas' minimum wage by increasing it themselves. A compromise minimum wage plan could be included on the agenda for 2006-03-29T20:49:34Z aflciopolitical Arkansas, MinimumWage, news

03.28.06 AR: Solons get behind plan to increase minimum wage

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If Gov. Mike Huckabee gets a special legislative session rolling by April 3, lawmakers may head off a constitutional amendment to raise Arkansas' minimum wage by increasing it themselves. A compromise minimum wage plan could be included on the agenda for

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]]> 03.29.06 ME: Approval for Minimum Wage Increase Pending http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=17806 A bill to raise the current minimum wage of $6.50 to $6.75 this October and then to $7 in October of 2007 appears to be on its way to final approval after the Senate this week rejected an amendment to add a training wage to the proposal. The amendment, pr 2006-03-29T19:48:01Z aflciopolitical MinimumWage, Maine, news

03.29.06 ME: Approval for Minimum Wage Increase Pending

by aflciopolitical

A bill to raise the current minimum wage of $6.50 to $6.75 this October and then to $7 in October of 2007 appears to be on its way to final approval after the Senate this week rejected an amendment to add a training wage to the proposal. The amendment, pr

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]]> 03.26.06 AR: Arkansas' minimum wage scenarios http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2006/03/26/RobyBrock/335292.html A proposed constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage in Arkansas from $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour is being considered on a call for a special legislative session. A proposed amendment in Arkansas would require an annual automatic increase or 2006-03-27T15:55:05Z aflciopolitical Arkansas, MinimumWage, news

03.26.06 AR: Arkansas' minimum wage scenarios

by aflciopolitical

A proposed constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage in Arkansas from $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour is being considered on a call for a special legislative session. A proposed amendment in Arkansas would require an annual automatic increase or

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]]> A good idea suddenly has become a bad idea http://tinyurl.com/effvp Earlier this week, Republican Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Crapo of Idaho proposed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Resolution that would have created a reserve fund to protect the Social Security surplus. 2006-03-25T19:46:40Z jasontromm carolina, south, jim, demint

A good idea suddenly has become a bad idea

by jasontromm

Earlier this week, Republican Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Crapo of Idaho proposed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Resolution that would have created a reserve fund to protect the Social Security surplus.

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]]> Cops go to hotel bars to arrest drunk guests http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49397 The controversial police tactic of arresting drunks at bars and restaurants has gone to a new level, to include intoxicated people at hotels, even those who are registered guests with no plans on driving. ()() This seems to be a shocking violation of peoples' civil liberties. Don't these cops know the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment? 2006-03-23T13:29:36Z jasontromm hotel, police, drunks

Cops go to hotel bars to arrest drunk guests

by jasontromm

The controversial police tactic of arresting drunks at bars and restaurants has gone to a new level, to include intoxicated people at hotels, even those who are registered guests with no plans on driving. ()() This seems to be a shocking violation of peoples' civil liberties. Don't these cops know the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment?

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