FBI provides flawed data for terrorism watch list

A Justice Department audit has concluded that the FBI provided the government-wide terrorism watch list with incomplete, inaccurate and outdated information about suspects for almost three years. The ACLU's Watch List Counter, now measuring over 930,000 names, points out that the 9/11 hijackers are on the list, even though they are dead.

ACLU Watch List Counter

Senate Republicans Reignite Immigration Fight

Republican Senators have introduced a wide range of enforcement-only immigration bills that would, for example, create stiff prison sentences for illegal immigrants caught entering the country across the southern border and for destroying border fencing. Others propose to cut off federal funding for states that issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Some will impose penalties on cities that bar local law enforcement from checking an individual's immigration status.

New America Media reports

Abortion Ban – For American Indians Only

Following scant debate, the Senate approved an amendment to an Indian health care bill that would permanently prohibit the use of federal dollars to fund abortions for Native Americans except in rare cases. The move has prompted an outcry from women’s health advocates—who point out that a similar ban has existed on a temporary basis for years—and from tribal groups, who are asking why Native American women should be subject to restrictions not applicable to other ethnic groups.

washingtonindependent.com reports

Teacher under fire for showing Gore film without rebuttal

When Mark Colley learned late last year that his daughter viewed "An Inconvenient Truth" during science class without advance parental notice, he was intrigued. When he learned his daughter's teacher allegedly presented no rebuttal to former Vice President Al Gore's popular documentary film warning about the perils of climate change, he was stunned.
"When you do that, you stop becoming a teacher and start becoming an advocate,' said Colley, who considers Gore's movie 'a political statement."

Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Affirmative Action Foes Push Ballot Initiatives

Sixteen months after voters in Michigan voted to kill affirmative action in the public sphere, Ward Connerly is leading efforts in five more states to ban the practice. Foes of affirmative action, which is meant to address current and historical inequities based on race and gender, delivered 128,744 signatures to Colorado authorities earlier this month. Similar organizations in Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska are circulating petitions as civil rights groups and educators are mobilizing to defeat the measures.


The Washington Post reports.