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• Lee’s Legion of Lessons
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  Becky Akers | Saturday, September 1, 2007
  The state is a harsh taskmaster with a taste for eating its own. A man may devote much of his life to its violence only to find himself on the receiving end one day. The Bible warns that “all those who take up the sword perish by the sword.” Yet distressing numbers of folks try […]
• Cops' Error No Rights Violation, Court Says
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, May 22, 2007
  “Mistakes sometimes happen when police conduct home searches, the Supreme Court said Monday in throwing out a lawsuit brought by a white couple in Southern California who were rousted from bed and held naked at gunpoint by deputies looking for several black suspects. The search of Max Rettele and his girlfriend, Judy Sadler, in their bedroom may have been an error, and it was certainly embarrassing to them, the justices said. But it did not violate their rights under the 4th Amendment, which protects against 'unreasonable searches and seizures,' they added.” (Los Angeles Times, Tuesday)
  
  Oops. Sorry about that.
  
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  “Property and Liberty” by James Bovard
• Putting Security Back on Track
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  Becky Akers | Tuesday, May 1, 2007
  Becky Akers is a historian and freelance writer in New York City . You might think the threats confronting American aviation are unique and unprecedented, given the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) unique and unprecedented regulations. Passengers must shed their shoes and they may carry aboard only three-ounce containers of liquids and gels, but “larger containers […]
• Justice Department Finds Bias in Police Stops
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, April 30, 2007
  “Police are more likely to search black and Hispanic drivers than white drivers, according to a Justice Department study released Sunday.” (USA Today, Monday)
  
  Old story.
  
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  “Leviathan's Legionnaires” by Becky Akers
• Wartime Executive Power: Are Warrantless Wiretaps Legal?
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  Robert A. Levy | Tuesday, August 1, 2006
  Robert Levy is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute. This article is drawn from his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, February 28, 2006. President Bush has authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop, without obtaining a warrant, on telephone calls, e-mails, and other communications between U.S. persons in the […]
• High Court Says Police Can Enter Homes Unannounced
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, June 16, 2006
  “In a major ruling based on a Detroit drug case, the U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that evidence seized under a search warrant can be used in court even when police fail to announce themselves or don't give residents enough time to answer the door. The 5-4 decision casts into doubt a 90-year-old legal precedent protecting homeowners whether they are law-abiding or not, and marks a shift resulting from President George W. Bush's most recent appointment to the high court.” (Detroit News, Friday)
  
  Sleep well.
  
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  “Rights Without Exceptions” by Jeff Snyder
• No Warrant Needed for Phone Records, Gonzales Says
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, May 24, 2006
  “Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday that the government can obtain domestic telephone records without court approval under a 1979 Supreme Court ruling that authorized the collection of business records. Gonzales would not confirm the details of a May 11 story in USA Today, which said the National Security Agency had collected phone records of millions of Americans and analyzed them to search for terrorism plots. But Gonzales told reporters that, under the Smith v. Maryland ruling, 'those kinds of records do not enjoy Fourth Amendment protection. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in those kinds of records.'” (Washington Post, Wednesday)
  
  Then anyone expecting such privacy must be unreasonable.
  
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  “Liberty and Privacy: Connections” by Joseph S. Fulda
• U.S. Reported Back in Somalia
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, May 17, 2006
  “More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles against Islamic groups for control of the capital, Mogadishu. . . . U.S. officials have declined to directly address on the record the question of backing Somali warlords, who have styled themselves as a counterterrorism coalition in an open bid for American support.” (Washington Post, Wednesday)
  
  “[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

  –Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1821

  
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  “The Awesome Powers of Government” by Murray Weidenbaum

• Pork-Barrel Spending Unchecked, Groups Says
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, April 7, 2006
  “As Congress moves to restrict lobbyists' influence and to control government spending, a new study shows pork-barrel spending continued unabated in the 2006 budget.” (MarketWatch, Friday)
  
  Business as usual.
  
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  “Where Have All the Fiscal Conservatives Gone?” by W. James Antle III
• AmeriCorps Slated for Scale-Down
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, February 28, 2006
  #8220;President Bush, who embraced AmeriCorps as part of his 'compassionate conservative' agenda in 2001, now wants to shut down a part of the national service program that his administration has deemed 'ineffective.' Beginning next year, the White House would reduce funding for the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps from $27 million to $5 million with the goal of closing it down, according to the president's budget. About 81 full-time staff members would lose their jobs.#8221; (Washington Post, Tuesday)
  
  Voluntarism should be funded voluntarily.
  
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  #8220;National Service: A Solution in Search of a Problem#8221; by Thomas J. DiLorenzo