U.S. Constitution: 4th Amendment
A while back, I asked for reader suggestions on posts but, alas, have published no posts in response to said suggestions. Most of the suggestions were for posts and post series requiring research. Three of my colleagues have volunteered to write something in response to suggested topics and I have underway a post on General and Flag Officers, which was ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 3, 2008 14:35
FISA Reform Moves Forward, Netroots Angry at Obama
The Senate easily invoked cloture yesterday, ending a threatened filibuster of a major overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The revised bill is expected to pass today. This may be the most important bill we pass this year," said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), an architect of the bill crafted over four months ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 26, 2008 08:03
TSA ID Requirements
Those who wish to fly without ID cards have but a few more days. Beginning Saturday, June 21, 2008 passengers that willfully refuse to provide identification at security checkpoint will be denied access to the secure area of airports. This change will apply exclusively to individuals that simply refuse to provide any identification or assist transportation security officers in ascertaining ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 12, 2008 16:14
Clear Card Holders Jump Airport Security Lines
Today's WaPo has a short feature on Clear Cards, whereby travelers get to bypass TSA security lines at select airports for a small fee. Fast-pass security lanes officially opened at Reagan National and Dulles airports Wednesday for travelers with special clearance. Heres how it works: Fliers undergo a Transportation Security Administration background check and have personal data, plus iris and fingerprint ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 24, 2008 10:09
Huckabee Would NOT End Birthright Citizenship (Updated)
Mike Huckabee wants to overturn the 14th Amendment, the Washington Times reports. Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced. Mr. Huckabee, who won last week's Republican Iowa caucuses, promised ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 8, 2008 14:31
Race Riots and Assimilation
Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he's made in the comments of my tongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France. He argues that the problem goes beyond religion and is ultimately about assimilation and "giving the descendants of immigrants a stake ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 27, 2007 15:35
Bridge Protestors Face Sanction for Anti-Bush Sign
A championship womens' bridge team went Dixie Chick and are now facing possible sanctions. In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 14, 2007 10:17
The Coup at Home?
In an incredibly hyperbolic piece with the over-the-top headline "The Coup at Home," NYT columnist Frank Rich draws an equivalence between the coup in Pakistan and the incremental decline of freedom in the United States in the name of counter-terrorism. The gist of the piece: The Pakistan mess, as The New York Times editorial page aptly named it, is not just another ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 11, 2007 10:27
Judge Orders Reporter to Do Story or Go to Jail
A Utah judge has ordered a reporter to produce a story to his specifications or face contempt charges. A judge ordered a TV news reporter Wednesday to produce a public-service story as a consequence for airing an interview with a potential juror before the recent trial of a polygamous-sect leader. Fifth District Judge James Shumate had barred the news media ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 18, 2007 08:39
Affirmative Action for Rich, White Kids?
Peter Schmidt, deputy editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education and author of Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action, argues in a recent Boston Globe op-ed that more whites than minorities who don't make the grade are admitted to elite schools. Researchers with access to closely guarded college admissions data have found ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 2, 2007 14:32
