Minnesota GOP's CD Raises Privacy Concerns

doginthewoods writes to tell us the ThinkProgress blog is reporting that the Minnesota Republican Party has been distributing a new CD about a recent proposed amendment. The CD poses questions about some of the hot-button issues like abortion, gun control, and illegal immigration. The problem with this CD, however, is that it "phones home" to the Minnesota GOP, without making it clear that your name is attached. So, if you take a look at the CD and take time to answer the questions, beware. Once you are finished they will know not only who you are, but where you stand on the issues at hand.

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[DesScorp]

Wow, this makes how many politics articles this week? And all of them attacking either the GOP or the Bush Administration. The editors don't even know how to be subtle about their political prejudices anymore. And doing a story from a political blog?

Can we just go ahead and put a DNC icon in the Slashdot logo now? Just be honest and get it over with, eh?

Seriously, editors...are you trying to drive conservatives away from the site? Is it intentional?

Scalia and Thomas saved the right to privacy

[ccmay]

There are, however, the ninth and tenth ammendments, which say any right not enumerated is reserved to the states or the people. There could indeed be a natural and unalienable right to privacy, it's just not explicitly listed in the Bill of Rights. The right to privacy, if such exists, is in the purview of the states.

Ironically, the 9th and 10th Amendments were looked upon as mere toilet paper by the Supreme Court from the time of Roosevelt right up until United States v. Lopez in 1995. With the notable exception of Roe v. Wade, several generations of mostly Democratic Supreme Court appointees took the view that the Commerce Clause meant that the States could be treated as so many French departments, charged with little more than implementing the dictates of the central government.

If the 9th and 10th Amendments ever prove to be indispensable to establishing a general right to privacy (apart from a "penumbra" sheltering abortion on demand), you can thank Scalia, Thomas, and Rehnquist for restoring them.

-ccm