By STEPHANIE FARR Philadelphia Daily News 215-854-4225 When Steven Spielberg accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes this year, the director, who spent part of his childhood in Haddon Township, N.J., recalled seeing his first movie, "The Greatest Show on Earth," in Philadelphia with his father. Spielberg will return to Philadelphia in October to accept another award, the 2009 Liberty Medal, for making some of his own greatest shows and for documenting the power of the human spirit in the face of humanity's darkest moments, it was announced yesterday. Each year the...
Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan...
Dalai Lama to Receive Freedom Center's International Freedom Conductor Award
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
CINCINNATI, Feb. 5 – CINCINNATI, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center announced today that His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, will accept the International Freedom...
Don't surrender civil liberties to lawyers
The Guardian
The Guardian
The Irish playwright Brendan Behan is reputed to have said, "the first thing on the agenda of any republican organisation is a split". This is equally true of civil libertarians. Henry Porter argues that the next general...
Democratic liberty is fundamental
Taipei Times
Taipei Times
As one of the signatories of the open letter to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) (“An open letter to Taiwan’s president,” Nov. 13, 2009, page 8), I would like to respond to the article by Government Information Office...
GA group proposes male version of Lady Liberty
The State
The State
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A Georgia-based group is suggesting that Lady Liberty should have a male counterpart. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports Rodney Cook...
Price rising for Liberty bus passes
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
More News The price of a monthly bus pass for Liberty commuters is going up by $10 next month. The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and the city agreed to raise the price of the bus pass to $95 in response to...
Liberty police working on leads in theft of Haitian relief donations from restaurant
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
Price of Liberty bus pass increases
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
More News The price of a monthly bus pass for Liberty commuters is going up by $10 starting next month. The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and the city agreed to raise the price of the bus pass to $95 in...
Winthrop pulls away to beat Liberty 67-43
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
More News Matt Morgan scored 16 points and Charles Corbin 15 as Winthrop pulled away to a 67-43 victory over Liberty on Thursday night. Corbin scored two baskets during an 8-0 run for the Eagles (12-10, 8-4 Big South...



