Sep

30

Digitizing the Bill of Rights

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The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from conducting “unreasonable searches” of our “persons, houses, papers, and effects” without a warrant…. In passing the USA Patriot Act, lawmakers gave the FBI and other law enforcement agencies the right to secretly subpoena records from Internet service providers without any form of judicial oversight.

Sep

29

To Avoid Conflict With Unions at Homeland Security, Davis Pulls Proposal

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[Washington Post]
By Stephen Barr
The mystery provisions are gone.
Yesterday, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), the House chairman who oversees the civil service, yanked provisions from a pending 9/11 bill that would have made it easier for the president to exclude unions at the Department of Homeland Security.
The provisions, which seemed likely to renew contentious debate [...]

Sep

28

WHY THE SIERRA CLUB IS DEAD, AND WHY WILDERNESS CONSERVATION WON’T HAPPEN

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[How to Save the World] In yesterday’s post, I quoted Stan Goff as saying that conservation is the only solution to the
coming energy crisis. The word ‘conservation’ is an ambiguous one, which is one reason why politicians can get away with saying they support it without doing anything. At its root, ‘not doing anything’ is, [...]

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