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...through e-mail and detain or deport foreigners--don't just offend the A.C.L.U. Cynicism about government power is now the folk culture of the American right. In Congress, one of the first members to question Ashcroft's plans was Georgia's state-of-the-art conservative Representative Bob Barr. "We cannot and must not," he said, "allow our constitutional freedoms to become victims of these violent attacks...
...former Senator, Ashcroft is well aware that in 1995, in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, bipartisan antiterrorism proposals much like the ones he just introduced were defeated in the House by Barr and Michigan's John Conyers Jr., the liberals' liberal. It was a strange-bedfellows alliance that has come back to life. This time, more than 150 organizations from left and right have organized an umbrella group, In Defense of Freedom, that may be the first umbrella that Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum has ever shared with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. As head...
...many drivers as they can. The companies get paid as much as $70 a ticket, and the total revenue is hardly chump change. San Diego has raked in $15.9 million since October 1998, and Washington $12.8 million since August 1999. "It's all about money," says Congressman Bob Barr, a leading critic. Not so, insists Terrance Gainer, Washington's executive assistant chief of police. "We have reduced fatalities. If some company is making money off that, that is the American...
Critics counter that there must be other, less intrusive ways to make intersections safer, such as lengthening the yellow light or adding turn lanes. "I object to this fixation we have with cameras and electronically gathered information," says Barr. "It places too much confidence in technology." That confidence, as Washington residents have learned, can be misplaced. The city removed one camera last May that had generated more than 19,000 tickets at a particularly confusing intersection. In San Diego, faulty sensors made drivers appear to be going faster than they really were. The city suspended the system in July, pending...
...other, more traditional, and, I suppose, more substantive experiences this summer. I worked in the office of Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), and was at the center of the Condit scandal for a day after Barr became the first member of Congress to call for the resignation of Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.). Poring through books and websites to research the particulars of requesting a Congressional ethics investigation certainly constitutes a memorable project...