Here you go. A classic case as to “you have the freedom to only do what we want you to do.” Grand Old Party Pooper?
The principal of a school, who happens to be the wife of a Democrat State Assemblyman, went ballistic over a picture of President Bush, displayed with other Presidents, and fired the teacher responsible. Now the teacher is suing and wants her job back. You are free to ask the principal why she did such a thing, here is her information:
Principal Joyce Becker-Seddio
Birch Lane Elementary School
E-mail: jbecker@msd.k12.ny.us
(516) 797-6010
I hope her email box explodes.

In New York, they are starting a police of random -but routine- searches of commuters. In wake of that decision, this shirt has come about. NYers to NYPD: ‘I Do Not Consent to Being Searched’.
While commuters have the “option” of declining, if the officer feels like there is probable cause, he can detain and even arrest you if he feels it necessary, based on how nervous you are.
What a country. Can’t you just feel the freedom here? [/sarcasm]

In a related article, the PATRIOT Act is becoming ‘semi-permanent’. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act.
In a knee-jerk reaction to the bombings in London, lawmakers move to extend the PATRIOT Act, which is set to expire later this year.
I have never been a fan of this Act, I feel it infringes on too many basic freedoms. I don’t care if it makes me “safer,” I would rather be free and live with the risk than give up freedoms and still have to live with the risk.

“Periodically revisiting the Patriot Act is a good thing,” said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass. “The Patriot Act was an effort to answer the most difficult question a democracy faces: How much freedom are we willing to give up to feel safe?“

None, Congresswoman, none. Ben Franklin and all that.

The last of a group of very brave men has died. Last of the WWII Comanche Code Talkers Dies.
These men were called into service not to fight, but to use their native language as an unbreakable code against Germany. Like their Navajo brethren in the Pacific, the enemy was never able to make heads or tails out of the code.