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Nothing characterizes the dysfunctional personality of San Francisco like its troubled relationship with panhandlers. While the city bills itself as a free-spirited tourist destination, visitors and residents regularly complain it is nearly impossible to walk down Market Street without being unpleasantly hassled. Ron Hansman, who has worked in the city on and off since 1970, says he took a visiting friend to dinner in North Beach in November and ended up in a confrontation with a belligerent panhandler in front of a Columbus Avenue restaurant. "I was thinking, what happens if we have to fight this guy?" Hansman said. "We're...

I knew this wouldn't take long! The ACLU are breaking out the champaign glasses and popping the cork! It is celebration time for the left, as Al Qaeda terrorists now have ‘protections’ via the Geneva Conventions thanks to the US Supreme Court. In a sharp rebuke to the Bush administration, the United States Supreme Court today ruled 5-3 that the military commissions system established by President Bush to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay is unfair and illegal. The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, applauded the decision.

CLEVELAND -- A lawsuit was filed Wednesday challenging Ohio's offer of license plates with the anti-abortion message "Choose Life." The American Civil Liberties Union sued in Cleveland federal court to block the license plate sales due to begin next month. < snip >