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There’s an interesting article posted on Xtra titled " Gay people and national security: How does security clearance work for queer politicians and civil servants?" The article quotes Professor Gary Kinsman, who co-wrote "The Canadian War on Queers," as saying:“[The government and security regeme] cited in particular our supposed vulnerability to blackmail. We supposedly suffered from a character

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I wrote last week about my observation that women tend to voice their opinions less frequently than men in both educational and casual spaces, and are less assertive when t…

My goodness the endorphins must be flowing in the Obama camp. Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman from Minnesota, a traditionally liberal and progressive state, has decided that she wants to be President.Of the United States.As if.WFDS

You know the Daily Caller. The supposed conservative alternative to Huffington Post, helmed by creepy Tucker Carlson, already has a short but storied history, its content often riddled with inaccuracies and sloppy reporting.But nothing can approach the…

If you are a sports fan of a certain age, mine, you will recall Nick Charles and Fred Hickman of CNN were the early, i.e. pre ESPN and TSN, go to guys for sports news,CNN Sports Tonight, at 11:30 week nights on the news channel.It is widely reported th…

“There seems to be a consensus among privacy advocates that the government is using the very latest technological advancements to sweep up, among other things, the locations of cell phones.

Your cell phone continuously pings your service providers’ towers and base stations in order to maintain a signal for you to use. By recording the precise time and angle of a cell’s data arriving at multiple base stations, providers can calculate the location of your phone about as accurately as a GPS unit — which means down to a single room in a building, at least in cities crowded with cell towers.”

“Kevin Bankston, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, thinks the government is demanding that cell companies provide the location data as well as other call-data records in bulk form in order to mine the data. “My guess is these 215 orders are being used to collect massive amounts of communications data without any direct connection to terrorism targets,” Bankston said.”

New Patriot Act Controversy: Is Washington Collecting Your Cell-Phone Data?

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There is a very serious problem in our society. We have become a surveillance culture.

Police and governments (not to mention marketing agencies) are trying to get more and more access to personal information. Often under dubious “preventative” auspices.

As free people we need to be concerned as our freedom from being watched is stripped away.

“There seems to be a consensus among privacy advocates that the government is using the very latest technological advancements to sweep up, among other things, the locations of cell phones. Your cell phone continuously pings your service providers’ towers and base stations in order to maintain a signal for you

At Yankee Old-Timers’ Day, according to Len Berman, restaurateur Elaine Kaufman was mentioned during the moment of silence for those who passed during the last year, but not former Montreal Royal and Montreal Expo announcer Duke Snider.Mr. Snider of co…

The whole blogosphere [did I spell the right?] is all a twitter [and a Twitter] about the fact that the Mayor of Hogtown is going to skip the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto to chill at the cottage with family and friends.Politically this is a sound move, …