Number of Senate bill introduced by John McCain that allows the U.S. military to pick up U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and detain them indefinitely without charge: 3081
Number of times the word “rights” is used in S. 3081: 2
Number of times the word is used to indicate the lack of Americans’ rights: 2
Number [...]

Jeremy Cloward denounces the vote by John Garamendi to extend Patriot Act powers without reforms. Representative Garamendi himself has made no comment to explain why he voted to continue one of the most broad ranging attacks against the Constitution begun under George W. Bush.

Yesterday 162 House Democrats voted in favor of extending the Patriot Act without any reforms at all. The following list contains the names of these 162 anti-liberty Democrats.

In the last election cycle of 2008, the Democratic Party issued its platform entitled “Renewing America’s Promise. In that platform, the Democrats made the following pledge:
Our Constitution is not a nuisance. It is the foundation of our democracy. It makes freedom and
self-governance possible, and helps to protect our security. The Democratic Party will restore [...]

In the face of the Senate’s repeated on-the-record votes against data privacy, it’s an outrageous hypocrisy for senators to vote for a resolution that suggests the observance of National Data Privacy Day – a day after the actual event is over.

Overnight, news emerged that for years, the FBI grabbed Americans’ private telephone records without any search warrants, and justifying the seizures of these records by claiming that there were emergency terrorist threats that in fact never existed. Thousands of times, the FBI completely invented stories of terrorist plots to attack the United States so [...]

In the case of gun rights, what’s important is not to just find a theoretical middle ground, but to examine the Constitution and what it actually says. Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf doesn’t seem to be willing to take the time to educate himself about the role of the Constitution in establishing government policy.

Stephen Bailey’s opposition to health care reform, and other government programs to help Americans, is based upon a profound misunderstanding of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Representative Betsy Markey’s best hope for re-election is that her eventual Republican challenger won’t show any more sense than Dean Madere has demonstrated so far.

With a choice of many on-base chapels, plus nearly 100 churches within a 15-minute drive, there isn’t any need for Wamp’s new luxury government-funded church at Fort Campbell.