2009-01-19

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2009-01-19 03:06 pm
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Gene Robinson's Prayer for Obama

Robinson is the openly-gay Episcopal preacher who offered a prayer as his part of Obama's inauguration ceremony. HBO and MSNBC panned it, but it's really worth hearing. You can read it or watch it on Youtube from here: http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/faith_and_politics/gene_robinsons_prayer_for_pres.html.
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2009-01-19 05:41 pm

Unreasonable Search and Siezure OK if Cops are Misinformed

The US Supreme Court has just ruled that if the police are unaware that they are violating a person's constitutional rights, the evidence they procure can be used against the person, even if its procurement was illegal. This is another dire blow to our already weakened constitutional protections.
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