Tag Archives: NDAA

My pilot light is out

By Mark | December 15, 2011

Every once in a while, I get the urge to stop blogging. I sat and stared at the screen last night for a few hours, and just couldn’t seem to muster the energy or enthusiasm for it. I feel like blaming the baby, as he’s been keeping us up for the past two weeks, but […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arlo, charter schools, Christmas, Christmas gifts, Clementine, collective bargaining, comics, defunding public schools, due process, home birth, indefinite military detention, Linette, Mark, Mark Maynard's heart, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, public education, public employee unions, temporary depression, things that make Mark happy, threats to stop blogging, union busting | 37 Comments

Senate to vote on giving President authority to indefinitely imprison American citizens, and others, without charge or trial

By Mark | November 27, 2011

At the risk of being called fear monger, it looks as though our Senator, Carl Levin, has drafted language within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012… which is likely to be voted on tomorrow… that would give Obama, and the presidents to follow him, the power to, among other things, deploy our […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics | Also tagged abuse of power, call to action, Carl Levin, false imprisonment, John McCain, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, Mark Udall, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, police state, prisoner rights, Ron Paul, Senate, Unitary Executive, worldwide military battlefield | 29 Comments

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