Glenn Greenwald’s blog Unclaimed Territory has become a must-read for me. He writes passionately, knowledgeably, and well about legal matters, and particularly the protection of civil rights. His recent post is another excellent analysis of the way that people who should know better are complicit in the eroding of civil liberties and the rights protected …
Monthly Archive: January 2006
Jan 16 2006
IDC now being attacked by some religious fundamentalists
Judge Jones’ ruling in the Dover, PA has suddenly brought to light what had only been hinted at before, that not all religious people, even evangelicals, were happy with IDC ideas and strategy. Some fundamentalists were unhappy with the IDC movement’s minimalist strategy of claiming only a few supernatural interventions in the evolutionary process. They …
Jan 12 2006
IDC losing yet more support
There are signs that even more people are feeling that introducing Intelligent Design Creationism (IDC) ideas into science classes is not something worth fighting for. The Cleveland Plain Dealer deputy editorial director Kevin O’Brien, who would have been the most likely person on their editorial board to support IDC writes in a December 28, 2005 …
Jan 11 2006
The pettiness of some congressional bribes
In following the Abramoff affair in the media and other past scandals, I was struck by something that Adam McKay gave voice to, and that is the relative smallness of the amounts used to bribe these congresspersons. It is not that the fact that some of these Congresspeople can be bribed but that their price …
Jan 10 2006
Mad Max takes on evolution
Over at Pharygula, biologist P. Z. Myers comments on a Playboy interview with Mel Gibson where he is asked: PLAYBOY: So you can’t accept that we descended from monkeys and apes? GIBSON: No, I think it’s b***s***. If it isn’t, why are they still around? How come apes aren’t people yet? Myers comments: Someday, I …
Jan 09 2006
The courage to stand up for what is right
It takes enormous courage to stand up and oppose one’s peers when they are doing something wrong, especially so when it is in the middle of a war and you have to make a snap judgment. Hugh Thompson Jr. was a person who had that kind of rare courage. He was a young 24-year old …
Jan 06 2006
Fighting the fear-mongers
Glenn Greenwald is guest blogging over at Digby and has an excellent piece titled Attacking Bush’s only weapon: Fear that extends what I wrote two days ago. He quotes a Bush speech delivered on October 6, 2005 where Bush says: “The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to …
Jan 04 2006
Frightening people to subvert the Constitution
Those who justify giving the government sweeping powers of spying, arrest, detention, torture, and even killing usually resort to three kinds of arguments. The first is the extreme hypothetical: concocting some bizarre scenario (“A nuclear bomb is going to explode in New York City in one hour and only a captured terrorist knows where it …
Jan 03 2006
2006: The Year to Say “Enough is Enough!”
The past decade has seen the systematic whittling away of civil liberties, the bypassing of judicial due process, and even the condoning of torture, all in the name of fighting the war on terrorism. It is time to fight back, to say that these actions are setting a dangerous precedent, by giving the government almost …
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