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President Bush took an oath - as he said at his press conference last week - to "protect and defend the Constitution" of the United States. It's good that the Constitution is in the forefront of his mind. It should stay there. It should be engraved on his shaving mirror. It should be embroidered on Attorney General John Ashcroft's bath towels...
...petition supporting Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself has collected more than 1,000 student signatures since January, and organizers say they hope to present it to Representative Michael Capuano, D-Mass. before spring break...
Despite the accidental blows that will inevitably come with any martial art, a lack of physical contact is actually at the heart of the Capoeira tradition. Brought to Brazil from Africa by Angolan slaves who needed to defend themselves from their newly appointed masters, Capoeira evolved as a self-defense mechanism masked as a recreational dance. “Now I can literally say that I dance like I fight, and I fight like I dance,” says Krieger...
...This law was the USA PATRIOT Act. Intended to loosen restrictions on our nation’s investigative bodies—and thus better protect citizens during the subsequent war on terror—certain aspects of this act have instead jeopardized the very freedoms our nation intended to defend...
...PATRIOT Act. While we recognize the need for vigilance in this new era of heightened security, the U.S. must have a transparent process that requires investigators to prove probable cause, which is an essential facet of American legal values. Abandoning these ideals—particularly while we fight to defend them—is unacceptable...