The Lippard Blog

You aren't allowed to say if you've received a National Security Letter. But there's no law that says you can't say that yo...

After a year of careful analysis of Judge Jones' decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District , the Discovery Institute has dete...

I received an email from the ACLU yesterday, informing me that they've jumped in on the net neutrality debate. Unfortunately, they badl...

The above headline is justified to the same extent as Stop the ACLU's headline, "Jailed Terror Suspect Helped ACLU Draft School Rel...

Gun rights advocate and "uninvited ombudsman" Alan Korwin has sent out a checklist of his recommendations on the Arizona ballot p...

Ed Brayton rightly criticizes the Arizona Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit to try to prevent Arizona from giving corporate tax credits f...

Paul Pechonis was arrested at his home for allegedly threatening the life of a police officer on his website. This was a police officer wh...

Although the ACLU's lawsuit against AT&T in Illinois was thrown out , a separate case in Michigan filed on January 17 of this year a...

While the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against AT&T continues , U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly today threw out ...

Ed Brayton's Dispatches from the Culture Wars has an excerpt from an article in Christianity Today by Yale Law School Professor Stephen...

I've posted this as an update on the original post , but it's also worth bringing out as a separate posting. I've made a few mi...

Security and cryptography expert Bruce Schneier gave a talk yesterday to the ACLU Washington's membership conference at which he argued...

The two major skeptical organizations in the U.S.--Michael Shermer's Skeptics Society and Paul Kurtz's Committee for the Scientific...

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the NSA asking for an injunction against warrantless interception of communications to international d...

Jim Romenesko at Poynter Forums posts an incisive article on how the Fox News Channel has been pushing this phony "War on Christmas&qu...

The Senate roll call vote is here . Unless a reauthorization passes, various provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act set to expire after three ye...

Sunday morning's first session was by Stuart Krone, billed as a computer security expert working at Intel. Krone, wearing a National Sec...

Ed Brayton comments on the "Isaac Newton of Intelligent Design"'s crazy accusations of obsession against his critics . Dembsk...

Clint Bolick and Alan Dershowitz have written two very different--yet only occasionally directly contradictory--rememberances of Chief Justi...