Judge Orders End to Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping
Aug 17, 2006 A federal judge in Detroit ruled that the government's eavesdropping program is illegal and unconstitutional, and ordered an immediate halt to it. Check out constitutional scholar and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald's stellar analysis and opinion roundup.Save the Internet (No Joke)
Apr 23, 2006 A coalition of conservatives and progressives has formed to defeat a law that would allow Internet provider companies to decide which sites load up the fastest--based on who pays them the most. Such a law would upend the even playing field that every site on the Web now enjoys. Check it out and contact your congressperson. When a right-wing blog like Instapundit and a left-wing organization like MoveOn.org get together on something, it's worth paying attention to.Supreme Court: Obscenity Still in Eye of Beholder
Mar 24, 2006 The Supreme Court has decided to leave it up to individual communities to decide whether something constitutes pornography. But in the borderless Internet age, what really constitutes a community?
Supreme Court Upholds Campus Military Recruiting
Mar 7, 2006 Colleges and universities that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, even in the face of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay people. John Roberts wrote the 8-0 opinion.
In Defense of Free Thought
Feb 22, 2006 On Monday an Austrian court sentenced crackpot British historian David Irving to three years' imprisonment for having denied the Holocaust 17 years ago. Directly on the heels of rioting sparked by the Muhammad cartoons, the ruling has exposed a longstanding double standard in the West about who is entitled to free speech and why.
