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  • Ashcroft denounces `hysteria' surrounding Patriot Act powers over libraries

    09/15/2003 4:16:04 PM PDT · by Brian S · 47 replies · 260+ views
    <p>Attorney General John Ashcroft denounced as "hysteria" the contention by some librarians and civil liberties groups that the FBI can use a new anti-terror law to snoop into Americans' reading habits.</p> <p>In a speech Monday to an American Restaurant Association conference, Ashcroft said people are being wrongly led to believe that libraries have been "surrounded by the FBI," with agents "dressed in raincoats, dark suits and sunglasses. They stop everyone and interrogate everyone like Joe Friday.</p>
  • Santorum is Right, and You Should Be Supporting Him: An Explanation of Lawrence v. Texas

    04/26/2003 12:28:27 PM PDT · by The Old Hoosier · 707 replies · 572+ views
    Serious Vanity | 4-26 | TOH
    With the recent publicity surrounding Sen. Rick Santorum's remarks on the issue of sodomy, almost everyone on FR must be familiar by now with the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas.Petitioner Lawrence and his special friend are trying to overturn a Texas law against homosexual sodomy. There are two issues in this case: 1) Is there a constitutional right for any two adults to engage in any kind of consensual sex, as long as it's behind closed doors? The petitioners say yes, there is, and are asking the court to agree. 2) Does it violate the 14th amendment's guarantee of...