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Tom Tomorrow Spin cartoon from 1994 predicted Patriot Act, NSA surveillance.

slate.com

by Will Oremus

December 26, 2013

Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, penned the cartoon in 1994 for Spin magazine.

At the time, the cartoon might have seemed a little hysterical. Remember, this was pre-warrantless-wiretapping, pre-Guantanamo, pre-Snowden, and pre-Obama-assassinating-American-citizens-with-drones, sans trial. Rather, the context for the cartoon was a new NSA gadget called the "Clipper chip" that would have made it easier for government officials to listen in on phone conversations, provided they had the legal authority to do so. (The technology was never widely adopted, and the NSA soon abandoned it.) Now? Not so hysterical. But hey, at least the third panel isn't strictly accurate, yet.

Texas exoneree wants accountability, not revenge

CNS News

by Will Weissert

March 29, 2012

A Texas father who spent nearly 25 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit is pressing for tougher penalties targeting prosecutors who withhold evidence.

"This isn't about me because my case is finished," Michael Morton said during an interview Thursday with The Associated Press. "But there's no reason it can't happen to you or to anyone." Morton was convicted in the fatal 1986 beating of his wife by a prosecutor who Morton and his attorneys believe knowingly withheld critical evidence.

Texas judge faces inquiry on wrongful conviction

CNS News

by Will Weissert

February 16, 2012

A special investigation will determine if a former prosecutor who is now a judge hid evidence in a trial that sent a man wrongly convicted of his wife's murder to prison for nearly 25 years, Texas' chief justice ordered Thursday.

A proceeding known as a "court of inquiry" will determine whether Judge Ken Anderson, when he was a district attorney, failed to turn over all documents that would have supported the defendant's claims of innocence and whether he tampered with evidence and court records, according to the order signed by Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson.

Texas board to vote on Confederate license plates

CNS News

by Will Weissert

November 10, 2011

A Texas board was set to decide Thursday whether the state will issue specialty license plates featuring the Confederate battle flag, a plan Gov. Rick Perry has said he opposes but will not block.

All nine members of the Department of Motor Vehicles board were appointed by the Republican governor, who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination and has previously defended the historical value of Confederacy symbols. But when asked about the proposed plates last month, Perry said "we don't need to be opening old wounds."

DOJ files letter with 5th Circuit affirming judicial authority

legalinsurrection.com

by William A. Jacobson

April 5, 2012

The DOJ just filed its letter to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the authority of federal courts to rule on the constitutionality of congressional laws.

Judge in George Zimmerman Case Bars Damaging Martin Info

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by William Bigelow

May 28, 2013

Judge Debra S. Nelson, who is the judge in the George Zimmerman trial for shooting Trayvon Martin, has barred some rather interesting information from being disclosed to the jury.

Fox Host: Big Three Networks Censoring Bad News on ObamaCare

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by William Bigelow

April 11, 2013

On April 11 the host of Fox's Varney & Co, agreed with Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, that the three major TV networks were withholding information from the American public that revealed the detrimental effects of ObamaCare.

Bozell hurled the charge that the networks are "deliberately censoring news and information from the American people," then backed it up with substantial evidence. The evidence include the following stories, none of which got even one mention on the networks...

Obama Jokes About Transparency, Press Is Shut Out of Gridiron Dinner

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by William Bigelow

March 10, 2013

It doesn't get more ironic than this: Barack Obama, who boasted of how his administration was the "most transparent in history," cracked jokes at the Gridiron Club annual dinner Saturday night about his transparency while the event was closed to outside press...

Liberal Kirsten Powers Fights Back Against Obama's War on Fox News

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by William Bigelow

January 29, 2013

In a counterattack against the efforts by the White House and its minions in the mainstream media to eradicate Fox News, Kirtsten Powers, a liberal who works for Fox News, pulls no punches about how serious the situation is, saying, "There is no war on terror for the Obama White House, but there is one on Fox News ...what the Obama administration is doing, and what liberals are funding at MMFA is beyond chilling - it's a deep freeze."

Daily Beast Review Of "Bullies": All Gas, No Fact

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by William Bigelow

January 15, 2013

In the most cursory, superficial, trifling, desultory, half-assed, perfunctory, shallow, cut-rate, inadequate, insubstantial, meager, rinky-dink review of a book ever written, Justin Green, writing on David Frum's blog, called Ben Shapiro's Bullies "less a book than a marketing campaign for the conservative rage movement." Not a word of Green's review indicates he actually read the book; there is no quote, not even the slightest reference to even a chapter.

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