On Kiddie Human Shields, Gun-Deprived Homophobes and Other Theories By Imploding Right-Wingers

Some hysteria was to be expected from right-wing responses to Obama's gun-control proposals, but many - more death panels! guns ripped from gay-marriage-hating pastors! your freedom reduced to ashes! - have outdone themselves. Taking the crazy cake is Michelle Malkin, who told Fox News Obama was guilty of "child abuse and political malpractice" for using chiildren as “kiddie human shields” by inviting them to see him do what they asked him to do. She called this "a time-tested tactic of the left." This is on which planet?

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111 Blacked Out Pages Is How Much the DOJ Wants You to Know About Your Right to Privacy

In some kind of sick, grim joke, the Department of Justice has responded to an ACLU lawsuit seeking its guidelines on when we can be surreptitiously tracked with 111 pages of documents almost entirely redacted, thus offering a middle finger to those asking officials to set limits on their own powers, or even tell us what those powers are. The lawsuit sought clarification on a 2011 Supreme Court decision banning use of GPS technology without a warrant. "How much privacy do Americans have in their movements? Exactly as much as law enforcement agents believe they must give us."

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