Issa suggested he would support such legislation.

If Mueller's omnibus-monitoring proposal became law, it could implicate the Fourth Amendment's guarantee of freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. In general, courts have ruled that police need search warrants to obtain the content of communication, and the federal Wiretap Act created "super warrant" wiretap orders that require additional steps and judicial oversight.

In addition, it's unclear whether "illegal activity" would be limited to responding to denial-of-service attacks and botnets, or would also include detecting other illegal activities, such as online gambling, the distribution of "obscene" images of adults engaged in sexual acts, or selling drugs without a license."

I have an idea....  Why not tell the Honorable Darrell Issa to take a hike.

EMAIL DARRELL ISSA

This ripped from a Slate article -

"The editor-in-chief of Answers Research Journal, geologist and creationist Andrew Snelling, wants "to ensure that the Creation and Flood model is given the best possible development." To that end, he urges potential contributors to ask themselves whether their research "is formulated within a young-earth, young-universe framework," and to provide "evidence of faithfulness to the grammatical-historical/normative interpretation of Scripture." (See excerpts from the ARJ Instructions to Authors below and on Pages 2-5.) Snelling also demands rigorous adherence to style principles. (Page 4: "Use lowercase creation in most cases, except in a list of biblical events, especially 'Creation and Flood,' 'the Creation Week,' and 'Day One.' ")"

Basically the Creationist’ are mimicking to their best ability real Scientific protocol!  Please do have a read - http://www.slate.com/id/2184384/

Sean

Another liberal story about immigrants from that horrible leftist newspaper... 

"If present trends continue, within two decades the proportion of immigrants in the United States will surpass the peak reached more than a century ago, a new analysis concludes.

The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research group, estimates that sometime between 2020 and 2025, the foreign-born will account for 15 percent of the American population, or more than 1 in 7 residents. They represented about 12 percent of the population in 2005, 14.7 percent in 1910 and about 15 percent in the late 19th century."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/us/11cnd-immig.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

President Bush has nominated a staunch anti-choice activist, someone who has also served for years as a Board member of a right-wing, anti-gay organization, to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for Wyoming.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Richard Honaker on February 12 -- a hearing that Senator Feinstein will chair. Make sure she hears from her constituents that Honaker must not be confirmed. Please call now and ask your friends to do the same.

Given the Senate's practice of not moving controversial judicial nominees once the country is in the midst of the presidential election season, as it is now, the Committee should not proceed with this nomination.

Richard Honaker has worked vigorously to undermine women's reproductive freedom. Mr. Honaker has written that abortion is "wrong, and no one should have the right to do what is wrong." As a Wyoming state legislator, Mr. Honaker in 1991 introduced a bill entitled the "Human Life Protection Act" that would have prohibited abortion, except to protect a woman's life or in cases of  incest or rape, but then only if the victim had reported the crime within five days of its occurrence -- a highly unrealistic requirement in many instances.

He has a disturbing record on government neutrality toward religion and a legal philosophy that threatens church-state separation.  Mr. Honaker believes that the Bible is "true in law," and has publicly disparaged non-"Judeo-Christians" as unable to sustain "political liberty."

Mr. Honaker is a longtime board member of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) -- an extreme right-wing, anti-gay organization that, despite its name, has taken liberty-restricting positions on a range of matters that have nothing to do with home-schooling. A report in Salon quoted one observer of the Christian right as noting that "HSLDA and similarly motivated organizations . . . are major players behind recent efforts to mandate creationist curriculum and attack environmental education, sex-education, and multicultural classroom material." And HSLDA has created an "army of eager teen activists . . . called Generation Joshua," to "help defeat the giants of abortion, same-sex marriage and judicial activism."

Why should you care about a federal judge in another state? As a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, Honaker's bad decisions could be looked to by judges in other states as persuasive precedent, and thus could affect all Americans. Women's rights advocates in Wyoming as well as leading national women's rights organizations, including NOW, the National Women's Law Center and NARAL Pro-Choice America, also oppose Mr. Honaker's confirmation, as do many other groups, including Americans United For Separation of Church and State and the Alliance for Justice.

Sean