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Frank Corte, Jr Proposes Christian Dominionist Theocracy For Texas

Posted by bosskitty

Dominionists appear to get pleasure out of torturing people who believe or think for themselves … THAT is sick! Making the choice for abortion is a traumatic event to begin with. That choice is never made lightly. Do NOT allow this disgusting measure become a real bill.

Oh, The Stress of It All - Op Ed

Posted by bosskitty

Hurry up get this election over with - we’ve got unfinished business facing us.

House Committee Hears Transgender Issues

Posted by bosskitty

Written Statement of
The Transgender Law Center
To the
Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
Committee on Education and Labor
United States House of Representatives
“An Examination of Discrimination Against Transgender Americans in the Workplace”
This historic hearing took place on Thursday, June 26, 2008.
Rayburn House Office Building
June 26, 2008
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
The Transgender Law Center (TLC) [...]

Bush Advanced New Spy Program Aimed At YOU

Posted by bosskitty

The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation’s most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea’s legal authority.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department’s new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as [...]

Customs: “Hand Over That Cell Phone, iPod & Laptop”

Posted by bosskitty

More and more people travel with laptops, BlackBerrys and cellphones.
The US government’s laptop-equals-suitcase position is raising red flags.
… her cellphone was taken from her purse.
… A few months earlier in the same airport, a tech engineer returning from a business trip to London objected when a federal agent asked him to type [...]

H.R. 1955: Another Reason For Paranoia

Posted by bosskitty

SEC. 899C. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENT RADICALIZATION AND IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE.
 
H.R.1955
Title: To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Harman, Jane [CA-36] (introduced 4/19/2007) Cosponsors (14)
Latest Major Action: 10/24/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the [...]

4th Amendment Dismissed In California - US Constitution Unravels

Posted by bosskitty

Justices uphold welfare home searches
The ACLU had challenged a San Diego County policy, saying its warrantless inspections violated privacy rights. The Supreme Court refuses to hear it.
WASHINGTON — County welfare officers may conduct routine searches of the homes of welfare recipients to combat fraud under a ruling in a California case that the Supreme Court [...]

Ask Any Non-White

Posted by bosskitty

Growing race gap in American incomes
Associated Press Tuesday November 13, 2007 Guardian Unlimited
Decades after the US civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white Americans has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of more than 2,000 families for [...]

Historical Revisionism - United States Genocide vs Ottomans

Posted by bosskitty

Why does the US think that disrespecting Turkey’s historical image related to the Ottoman/Armenian era, then ordering it to lay off the Kurds, is acceptable? Turkey’s military chief has said US-Turkish ties will never be the same again if US lawmakers brand the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Armenians a genocide
How does that help [...]

Freedom Of Information Act - US Black Ops Then And Now

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U.S. Weighed Radioactive Poisons

Cold War Papers on Potential Assassination Methods Unveiled
Early in the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate “important individuals” such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly declassified documents.
Approved at the highest levels of the Army in 1948, the effort was a [...]

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