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'Bigfoot' Filmmaker Sues New Hampshire

An amateur filmmaker who donned a hairy Bigfoot costume and scared hikers on New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock is now suing the state for not allowing him back on the mountain without a permit. Jonathan Doyle dressed up as the mythical Bigfoot, filmed part of a movie on the popular scenic mountain in 2009 and then...

Westboro Court Decision Pits Free Speech Against Common Decency

WASHINGTON -- Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church may have won their case in the U.S. Supreme Court today, but not even the most ardent advocates of free speech are rejoicing. "On a personal level, I can't imagine a single person in this country who doesn't feel the pain of this father" whose Marine son's funeral...

Why Did 26 Republicans Vote Against Extending the Patriot Act?

WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders expecting an easy two-thirds vote to extend key provisions of the Patriot Act were handed a rude surprise when 26 of their own opted to side with Nancy Pelosi and the American Civil Liberties Union instead of them. For Speaker of the House John Boehner, who once suggested to his new...

Patriot Act: The 3 Provisions the House Failed to Extend

Were they not patriotic enough? The U.S. House of Representatives failed to muster enough votes today to pass an extension of three key provisions of the Patriot Act. The final tally had 277 votes for the measure and 148 votes against it. A two-thirds majority was required for passage. Twenty-six Republicans and 122...

Donald Rumsfeld's New Memoir Trashed by Critics, John McCain and the ACLU

You go to press with the book you have. Coming in at just over 800 pages, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's new book, "Known and Unknown," was an ambitious undertaking. Given the harsh early reviews that have come in so far, however, one wonders if all that effort might have been better spent on a golf...

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, lobbying, and community education.

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