A U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has dismissed  a lawsuit alleging gross negligence and malicious conduct on behalf of Maryland police in the 2006 death of James Emerick "Jamie" Dean, who was shot and killed by a Maryland State Police sniper during a sta...

The creation of an atmosphere in which basic Constitutional rights were ignored under during the Bush years might be contributing to this bizarre measure introduced in the Connecticut legislature which would “remove control of Roman Catholic parishes from bishops and place them instead in the ...

Jews need reassurance right now that the agenda represented by the renewed civil liberties movement in Britain is for them, writes Keith Kahn-Harris. They represent a powerful resource for change, but fear is holding them back....

The Economist calls for an end to the drug war: Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade. Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same. In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, c...

I was sorry to hear yesterday that Hicham Yezza has been jailed for nine months. Hicham Yezza was arrested and held last May for a period of six days, alongside student Rizwaan Sabir. The incident provoking this farce was the appearance of an 'Al Qaeda' training manual downloaded from the US governm...

So, the DCI says that "I would not support, obviously, an investigation or a prosecution of those individuals" involved in the interrogation program...They did their job, they did it pursuant to the... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

Republican Senator Arlen Spector is opposed to investigating any alleged Bush administration abuses and crimes and I am not surprised. Maybe Spector is reluctant to investigate because he cannot... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

Will Wilkinson remains on the right track in looking for similarities between (some) liberals and (some) libertarians, while continuing to face objections. He debunks one common objection: The Lump of Liberalism Fallacy That’s what I’m going to call the error I sense lurking beneath a lot of res...

How free is your state? Tennessee comes in at number 7....

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