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- The New Addition To Homeland Security: A Personal Attack On US Civil Liberties
- Once again, the Government is at it. This is a blatant and violent attack upon the civil liberties as Americans in America. There is such a thing as the Constitution of the United States. The 1st Amendment is one of the strongest and greatest parts of the Constitution for all...
- White papers 2008-01-01
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- Cash, Arthur H.: John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty.(Book review)
- Cash, Arthur H. John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty New Haven: Yale University Press 482 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-300-10871-0 Publication Date: February 2006 This biography by a distinguished professor emeritus of the Department of English at SUNY--New Paltz, presents a remarkable portrait...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- US Congress raises civil liberty curbs with Hong Kong chief executive
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Congress has expressed concerns over civil liberty curbs in Hong Kong directly to the Chinese territory's chief executive, Donald Tsang, during talks in Capitol Hill. Media and immigration controls, disappointment over a constitutional reform plan and failure to make progress on universal suffrage were...
- Research articles 2005-10-27
- Safety versus civil liberty.(Slants & Trends)(Brief Article)
- SAFETY VERSUS CIVIL LIBERTY is a balancing act that is here to stay at least as long as the war on terror. One venue that illustrates how tough an act it is--Congress' renewal of USA Patriot Act provisions (see story, p. 123). The task, in the words...
- Research articles 2005-08-23
- National security and civil liberty: striking the balance.
- ABSTRACT. After September 11, 2001, the Bush administration initiated largescale electronic surveillance within the United States to gather intelligence to protect citizens from terrorists. Media commentary, public reaction, and classroom practices regarding this program have tended toward either-or positions: either for presidential power and national...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Less secure, less free: striking terror at civil liberty. (Gazette).
- FOR CIVIL LIBERTARIANS, THERE was one extra nightmare when we finally got to sleep on that awful day of September 11, 200]. We knew that the Washington bureaucracy's wish list of additional powers to conduct surveillance of Americans would not be based on a careful analysis...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Anti-terror bill is not an attack on civil rights: Blair
- LONDON AFP — British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended a controversial draft anti-terrorism bill saying he "rejected completely" that it is an attack on individual liberties. "I reject completely the allegation that this is a fundamental attack on longstanding civil liberties," Blair wrote in an opinion piece in...
- Research articles 2005-02-23
- NBC taking 'civil' liberty.(National Broadcasting Company Inc., Civil war)
- NBC News became one of the first major news organizations to define the killing in Iraq as a "civil war" on Monday, defying the Bush Administration and breaking with other networks wary of using the label. NBC News' "Today" co-anchor Matt...
- Research articles 2006-11-28
- John Wilkes—the flawed Crusader for liberty
- John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty. Arthur H. Cash. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiii + 482pp. ISBN 0-300-10871-0. John Wilkes (1726-97) occupies a prominent place in the history of English political radicalism. His defence of the freedom of the press, of the right of electors to...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Rights in an insecure world: why national security and civil liberty are complements.(National Security)
- ALMOST AS SOON AS THE PLANES CRASHED INTO THE TWIN TOWERS, SCHOLARS, pundits, and politicians began asserting that our most important challenge as a democracy now is to reassess the balance between liberty and security. As Harvard human-rights scholar Michael Ignatieff wrote in The Financial Times...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- No, not quite a dictatorship; Liberty v security.(How tough are John Ashcroft's measures?)
- Is the Bush administration really imperilling freedom for the sake of security? DISPUTES about civil liberty, like jury verdicts, tend to be binary. Guilty or not guilty. A threat to freedom or a necessary wartime protection. George Bush's proposals to deal with suspected ...
- Research articles 2001-12-08
- Liberty Mutual to face charges; Judge denies motion to drop allegations of fraud, bid rigging.(News)(Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.)
- Byline: RUPAL PAREKH NEW YORK-Units of Liberty Mutual Group Inc. will face charges of fraud and bid rigging related to brokerage compensation practices, after a trial court judge last week said New York officials' civil suit against the Liberty Mu Byline: RUPAL PAREKH...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
- Subsidiary Added as Co-Defendant in Civil Action
- PROVO, Utah--BUSINESS WIRE--March 13, 1998--Liberty Mint Ltd. (OTC BB:LIBY) Friday announced that on or about Feb. 13, 1998, Liberty Mint Inc., the operating subsidiary of Liberty Mint Ltd., was added as a co-defendant in a consolidated civil action number H96-2480 in the United States District Court for the Southern District...
- Research articles 1998-03-13
- Does Modernization Require Westernization?
- For the purposes of this essay, three types of liberty need to be distinguished: political, civil, and economic. Although it has become common, especially in America, to conflate the three, F. A. Hayek, among others, clearly distinguished them. As a development economist I am particularly concerned with the roles of...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- TWILIGHT OF LIBERTY: THE LEGACY OF THE ACLU.(Review) (book review)
- TWILIGHT OF LIBERTY: THE LEGACY OF THE ACLU. By WILLIAM A. DONOHUE. Transaction. 368 pp. $29.95 paper. First published in 1994, this updated version is a welcome guide to the ways in which the ACLU's constituting mission of protecting civil liberties has frequently degenerated...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Liberty Mutual, MetLife recover fraud losses.(Reporter's Notebook)
- In a fraud suit against lawyers and medical clinic operators in Massachusetts, Liberty Mutual and Metropolitan Life Auto & Home have reached settlements awarding the insurers $1.8 million in restitution. The insurers had flied the civil suit unde In a fraud suit against lawyers and medical...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Fisher, Louis Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards.(Book Review)
- Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 266 pp., $16.95, ISBN 0-7006-1202-5 Publication Date: September 2002 Who defends civil liberties--especially religious liberty? The usual answer is that in the United States, the judiciary, using the First Amendment, is the guardian of religious liberty. In...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- Make Liberty Park safer
- Maybe they should change the name of the Liberty Park "Drum Circle" to "Drug Circle." Perhaps Rocky and the ACLU could also explain what they are doing to defend the civil rights of law- abiding citizens who want to enjoy Liberty Park and be safe. Kevin Lemon ...
- Research articles 2005-04-07
- New York Liberty Salutes Female Service Members During 'Inspiring Women' Tribute
- News Advisory: Service Members from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines will be Honored for Service WHAT: Four service members representing all branches of the United States Military will be honored by the New York Liberty during half- time festivities Friday, June 16 when the team takes on the...
- Research articles 2006-06-16
- Life, liberty, & the ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen - Interview
- Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, on rights in the age of P.C.Since its founding in 1920, the American Civil LIberties Union has arguably been both the highest-profile and the most controversial legal organization in the country. From its early involvement with such well-known defendants as John...
- Research articles 1994-10-01
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