Leader Pelosi: Fight for our rights!
Cross-posted at Hughes for AmericaLeader Pelosi,I wanted to thank you for including me - and many others - in your efforts to craft the Democrats' message for the future. When I received the 2005...
View ArticleRight to Privacy: Yes or No
I came to a conclusion last week: where you stand on privacy rights determines your positions in politics. Liberals support privacy, Conservatives deny privacy. The impact of this right is visable with...
View ArticlePrivacy? You Don't Need No Stinking Privacy!
You may find this hard to believe, but apparently the Bush administration is using our spy satellites more and more to look down at us patriotic 'merikins in the good old US of A:WASHINGTON - A...
View ArticleI Probably Have an FBI File (and You Might Too)
I probably have an FBI file. Why do I say that? Because last year I went to my local library and checked out the DVD of a classic film, one that has won renown throughout the world for it's gritty...
View ArticleWork Place Privacy Rights (Warning: 2500 words long)
Pervasive monitoring of employees using the latest technology in the workplace has privacy considerations for everyone. If an employer supplies the employee with an office, a computer, an email...
View ArticleCavity Searches: Next on the Horizon?
I understand that people are discussing the nature of the latest terrorist threat and its many implications, especially political. All that aside, I am in "a state" about the sudden imposition of new...
View ArticleThe Weekly Haboob: The Full Court "Press" for Foley?
Mark Foley's dad just passed away after battling cancer. David Roth, Foley's attorney, has asked the media to respect the privacy of the family during this difficult time. The sins of the son should...
View ArticleDomestic Spying: Playing Soon Across Canada? (updated)
With most everyone in Canada busy talking about 'veiled intentions' the Canadian federal government playmakers are hoping the crowd is distracted enough for them to try a sneaky wraparound play from...
View Article(E)-Verifying More Problems for Immigrant Workers
Oh, Brother. And I don’t mean that in terms of Charlie Brown’s G-rated euphemism for an expletive. I mean it in terms of Big Brother in George Orwell’s classic novel of government intrusion into...
View ArticleSen. Leahy does it again: take action on FISA now!
I'm on Senator Leahy's action-alert listserv, and just now, he's sent out an action alert to email his fellow Senators (and our Congresspeople) to demand a House-Senate conference to produce a fair...
View ArticleThe nuts and bolts of healthcare reform: electronic medical records
Everyone is talking about healthcare reforms, but what is really on the horizon? After all, our system, for all its faults, provides the best healthcare in the world, right? (No.) Although we have many...
View ArticleUn-Common Knowledge
Ok, here is a test for you.What do the Division of Motor Vehicles Colorado, the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics in Salt Lake, Monster.com, the University of Miami and Fidelity National...
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Economic Hardship: How High’s The Water Mama? - A story of Rain, Fame...
Current Economic events leave all of us with feelings of fear, uncertainty and doubt. This is a look back to January 1937, and how Johnny Cash's parents & hundreds of others endoured the loss of...
View ArticleHIPAA & the Abortion Debate
One thing is puzzling about the Anti-Abortion rhetoric surrounding the late George Tiller. I know I heard Fox News and Bill O'Reilly in particular state that "Dr. Tiller performed abortions "for any...
View ArticleJust a Spoonful of Sugar and your Privacy Goes Down
"TV everywhere." Sounds nice doesn't it? this is the thin end of a wedge that will end the right to privacy forever. Plus free TV. More below the fold.
View ArticleNC Sheriffs want warrantless access to prescription records
Displaying yet again their utter contempt for privacy, NC law enforcement wishes to snoop into people's medicine chest via their pharmacist, without any of that silly "probable cause" nonsense.
View ArticleNC law enforcement want lists of patients using painkillers
If you live in North Carolina and receive pain treatment, you might want to relocate.Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful...
View ArticleJudge the Global Network Initiative by How It Judges Companies
Recent pressstories about the Global Network Initiative (GNI) paint a distorted picture, judging the Initiative's effectiveness and impact based primarily on the number of companies that have joined...
View ArticleHey KOS! We need a clock... the Rush WATCH
The Rush Watch (h/t 88Cathy for the name) will keep track of two things.1) The number of "Dead Ender" advertisers that still pimp their products with the OxyMoron. This is a countdown clock. So far...
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