August 23rd, 2006

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Right-Wing Agenda

The conservative movement is not monolithic. It has many branches, each with its own ideas of the right way — the far-right way — to run the world.

A Florida school board wants to ban a children’s book about Cuba from its school libraries. The book isn’t harsh enough on the Cuban government. And there’s no better way to fuel the mind of a child than to deny him access to ideas you disagree with.

A coalition of conservative groups is pushing for an FBI to crackdown on in-room adult movies in hotels. Adults, unlike children, can make their own decisions. But sometimes they choose incorrectly, and we have to put a stop to that.

A church in Watertown, New York dismissed a Sunday School teacher who had taught there for 54 years. Why? Because she was female. In a letter, the minister quoted the Bible as saying: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” Over in Afghanistan, the Taliban are thinking, “This is the kind of American we can work with!”

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No Privacy

Wired has the Bush Power-Grab Scorecard with details and status information about extraordinary rendition, torture, detention without trial, and warrantless surveillance.

Another Wired story lists ten privacy screw-ups in the Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame.

Between accidental breaches and deliberate ones, privacy’s been having a tough time lately.