In 1759, Ben Franklin may or may not have written “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” There’s some dispute over whether he penned those lines or borrowed them for a publication. But there’s no disputing that this concept of individual liberty balanced with collective security was at the very foundation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The balancing act between essential liberties and collective security has been more than put to the test in post-9/11 America, and the balance has most definitely shifted away from personal liberty. Consider this story told by a border agent at a meeting of 200 residents in Washington’s San Juan Islands.
He was there to explain why the federal government is doing citizenship checks on domestic ferry runs. But near the end, while trying to convince the skeptical audience that the point is to root out terrorists, not fish for wr...
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The Perils of Mortgage Fraud: Why Cities Should CareFrom: netnewspublisher.com
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Having the FBI spy on you is not a goal of most public officials. Yet there I sat in a meeting with self-described “real estate developers” while federal agents covertly watched our discussions through (if you didn’t know better) what looked like office furniture. This came about when I served for a number of years overseeing housing and economic development for the City of New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons learned are clearly relevant today.
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more What Constitutes a “clinical Trial”?From: netnewspublisher.com
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What constitutes a “clinical trial” is inconsistently defined in the medical literature. With an initiative by Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) to report institutional clinical trials activity across the province of Ontario, Canada, the authors sought to investigate the variability in the interpretation of the term by local oncology professionals.
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A survey amongst the physicians and nurses at the Juravinski Cancer Centre at Hamilton Health Sciences, Ontario was conducted....
more Sri Lanka Asks British Government to Ban LTTE Fund Raising ActivitiesFrom: netnewspublisher.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 13:36:01
Sri Lankan authorities have formally requested the British government to ban fund-raising activities by groups sympathetic to the LTTE and operating as fronts for the banned terrorist outfit.
The Sri Lankan authorities claimed that although the LTTE was banned in Britain, a number of organizations claiming to be “charities” were working for it. According to the Sri Lankan High Commission in London, these funds directly go to the coffers of the insurgent group to wage war against t...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 13:32:38
Today at CeBIT, Logitech unveiled the company’s first wireless stereo headset designed for Internet calling with a PC: the Logitech® ClearChat PC WirelessTM headset. The ClearChat PC Wireless headset combines high-performance stereo audio with 2.4 GHz wireless technology, allowing people the freedom to move around when they make VoIP calls - no wires attached.
“More and more people are making voice calls over the Internet, but until now, they have had to choose between wired hea...
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