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51% of Likely California Voters would Reject California Initiative Against Gay Marriage

Bill Lenner — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:55:00 GMT

An proposal on the California ballot this fall that would codify into the state constitution that marriage should be between a man and a woman would be defeated if held at this time.

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Reviled Techniques from Communist China Aimed at Getting False Confessions From US Troops Used As Basis For Bush Administration 'Enemy Combatant' Detention and Interrogations

Bill Lenner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:26:00 GMT

I've been hearing this for a couple weeks at least from Amy Goodman at Democracy Now.Funny how those supposedly wacko ideas from the left turn out so often to be true.It's only my hectic schedule and inability to find a mainstream source on t

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Supreme Court Strikes Down DC's Handgun Law. Justice Antonin 'Torture is good!' Scalia Cites 'Historical Narrative'. No kidding

Bill Lenner — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Somebody watched too many John Wayne movies when he was a kid.Apparently, to make the a decision to decide that Washington DC's handgun ban was unconstitutional Justice Antonin Scalia had to use 'historical narrative' as his guide since t

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McClatchy: Huge Report on the Detention of Enemy Combatants. First Part Detainees 'Caught' Through Suspect Means. Extra Info: Only 10% of Worst of the Worst Likely to Be Charged With War Crimes

Bill Lenner — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:19:00 GMT

A big report in the McClatchy newspapers show mistaken identity and mistreatment at America's detention

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California County Clerks Hold Offices Open Late For Same Sex Couples

Bill Lenner — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:03:00 GMT

We heard June 17th for nearly a month now, but apparently the ability to wed your same sex love was to become legal as of 5 pm today,which is usually closing time for the clerks' offices.So "at least 5 county clerks around the state extended

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CA Supreme Court Refuses to Delay Gay Marriage Rights.

Bill Lenner — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:21:00 GMT

This morning California's Supreme Court refused to 'delay' implementation of its historic decision that the California Constitution gives same sex couples the right to marry.The same four out of 7 justices that ruled in favor of recognizi

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True Agenda Hidden by California's Pro Proposition 98 Ads. Schwarzenegger and Feinstein Agree California's Proposition 98 is Bad News for State.

Bill Lenner — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:00 GMT

Even if you are a homeowner or don't otherwise need rent control, if you live in California it could bite you.Pushed by the Howard Jarvis foundation, the measure parades as an hold on excessive eminent domain seizures, but it also is becoming kno

51% of California's Electorate Believe Same Sex Couples Have Self Evident Right to Marry

Bill Lenner — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:27:00 GMT

It appears likely that the percentage will increase if influences develop like those which were instrumental in defeating a 1978 measure (The Briggs Initiative banning gays and lesbians from teaching in schools) according to 1 vote made majorit

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Republican David Frum: Fight Against Gay Marriage May Destroy Civil Unions Too

Bill Lenner — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:39:00 GMT

Today in the Left Right and Center discussion on NPR David (Axis of Hate) Frum noted that a building determination to fight against the human right of gay marriage may destroy the ability to form civil unions.So,

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Arguments At The California Supreme Court Gay Marriage Trial

Bill Lenner — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:29:00 GMT

The San Jose Mercury has at least some of the arguments being used and the justices comments in the trial over whether the California ban on same sex marriage should stand in "California Supreme Court in gay marriage storm ".The most intere

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White House Admits They Lied About Missing Intelligence Due to Congress' Refusal to Pass Surveillance Act

Bill Lenner — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:17:00 GMT

Hours after chiding Congress for not finishing a wiretapping bill and leaving the nation 'vulnerable to terrorist attack,' officials acknowledge all requested information is being received.

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Senate Passes Surveillance Bill With Telecom Immunity Intact

Bill Lenner — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:21:00 GMT

This should remind us of the power of a corrupt executive administration.We shouldn't ever pretend we can work with or around Terra Terra Terra Republicans in the White House.The main proponent of this in the presidential primaries is John McCain

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Ho Hum Another Election Year, Another Major Terror Trial.

Bill Lenner — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:49:00 GMT

Well, to be fair there wasn't a major terror trial in 2004, but I think the announcement in late October 2004 (see timeline ) that the government was setting a trial date for Moussaoui might have been aimed for impact at any minor presidential co

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Photography is Banned in Iraq.

Bill Lenner — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:11:00 GMT

Some Democracy. It sounds more like the old Soviet Union.See LA Times blog Babylon and Beyond: Snakes, spiders and temptation And note how the writers after reporting the facts focus on titillating and scary aspect of the bans and dangers they

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FBI To Use Our Bodies As A National Identification Card

Bill Lenner — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:01:00 GMT

Excerpt WP report "FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics":Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here. Next month, the FBI intends to award a

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Gov't Gets Bitch Slapped in Magistrate Court For Trying to Force Amazon to Cough Up Names of Book Buyers.

Bill Lenner — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:42:00 GMT

It was a dark and stormy night when she walked in to my magistrate court. She was tall and blond and the US government. I couldn't help but notice though that this dish had too much dark body hair and muscle upon muscles bulging through

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Woman Tasered for Not Moving Fast Enough

Bill Lenner — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:45:00 GMT

This is the new safe torture according to our government.Note near the end the tough looking guy watching, putting his hand to his mouth as people do when shocked by something horrific. Commenter at The Lede article "Don’

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DNI McConnell Caught Fudging the Facts Again

Bill Lenner — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:14:00 GMT

In our last episode you may remember that our valiant Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell was hanging off a cliff after being caught in a bit of an obfuscation maintaining that the FISA law expansion passed by Congress just recently

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F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Target Suspects

Bill Lenner — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:16:00 GMT

The National Security Letters to telecommunications companies whose use by the FBI were struck down this week, reached out and touched a lot more people than just the original suspects according to NY Times report (same title as above):In a percenta

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Judge Blocks Warrantless Collection of Email and phone data by FBI through "national security letters"

Bill Lenner — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:43:00 GMT

The Republican controlled Congress passed had codified the tactic into law in 2005. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York said the FBI's use of secret "national security letters" to demand such data violates the F

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