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US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand
wiredmikey writes "The U.S. Supreme Court said this week it will let stand an immunity law on wiretapping viewed by government as a useful anti-terror tool but criticized by privacy advocates. The top U.S. court declined to review a December 2011 appeals court decision that rejected a lawsuit against AT&T for helping the NSA monitor its customers' phone calls and Internet traffic. Plaintiffs argue that the law allows the executive branch to conduct 'warrantless and suspicionless domestic surveillance' without fear of review by the courts and at the sole discretion of the attorney general. The Obama administration has argued to keep the immunity law in place, saying it would imperil national security to end such cooperation between the intelligence agencies and telecom companies. The Supreme Court is set to hear a separate case later this month in which civil liberties' group are suing NSA officials for authorizing unconstitutional wiretapping."
Limbaugh is also a comedian. The difference is, neither he nor his audience know it.
That isn't quite true. Limbaugh exposes progressive ideas to ridicule, and both he and his audience get it. It is the subjects of the ridicule that don't get it.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Great bullet list, especially the one about separation of church and state. Recently, the .gov has been interfering in the church way too much, trying to tell them what they can and can't teach, and threatening to revoke their tax-exempt status for teaching things that are unpopular (such as personal responsibility, sanctity of marriage, definition of marriage as 1 man + 1 woman, etc).
Separation of church/state has always been about keeping either as an institution from controlling the other. Sadly, many people take this to somehow mean that politicians can't be part of the church, and that church members can't be part of the .gov, when this is clearly not the intent of the founders.