The Lippard Blog

Dana Perino says, "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term." Sean Hannity ignores it. T...

"It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. In other words, we want to know t...

June 4 will be the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. March 10 is the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising that led to ...

For a second time, a U.S. appeals court has found unconstitutional the provision of the USA PATRIOT Act which forbids recipients of National...

Kat and I attended Alan Korwin's Bill of Rights celebration, celebrating the 217th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, which was held thi...

Lest there was any remaining doubt that the 1954 insertion of "under God" into the pledge of allegiance was explicitly religious, ...

The FFRF's "Imagine No Religion" billboard in Rancho Cucamonga, California, is being removed by General Outdoor Advertising af...

Day one steps are closing Guantanamo Bay, ceasing and prohibiting torture, ceasing and prohibiting extraordinary rendition; steps for the fi...

From the Iowa State Daily : Audience members escorted out of Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., campaign event in Cedar Falls questioned why they ...

Via the Reason blog : The 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte established an exception to the Fourth Amendment, al...

Dustin Chalker, stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas, has filed a lawsuit about being forced to attend Christian proselytization events in the mil...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed Jewel v. NSA to try another tactic in stopping unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping of U.S....

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars discusses those right-wing Christians who oppose Sarah Palin because God doesn't want wom...

Christina Caldwell has written a thoughtful and positive piece on the FFRF billboards in Phoenix for Arizona State University's student...

The Arizona Republic has published this obituary : Chester William Anderson passed away at age 97 on August 19, 2008, following a brief il...

The Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico last year with 3.7 tons of cocaine on board was frequently used by the CIA to fly terror suspec...

We put a Barack Obama for President sign in front of our house on Sunday; it's already gone today. A Google search for "Obama sign ...

Science writer Simon Singh (author of The Code Book on yesterday's list of science books ) is a columnist for The Guardian, for which h...

Ed Brayton gives a summary of Radley Balko's list of tough questions for the candidates . It's a pity that our mass media is unlike...

I saw two articles this morning which I think invite comparison. First, Phil Dunkelberger, CEO of PGP Corporation, says people visiting Chi...