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Hunting down liberties.


The ACLU ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU - Adventurous Cowboys Living Underwater (Prairie Home Companion)
 is an organization of laudable laud·a·ble (lôd-bl)
adj.
Healthy; favorable.
 purpose. But from time to time, it has displayed a tendency to focus on relatively trivial matters instead of major threats to our liberty. This instinct for the capillaries recently found expression in a lawsuit by the ACLU of West Virginia to permit hunting on Sundays. They may have a case, but with John Ashcroft loose in the land, shouldn't liberals be expending their slim resources more judiciously?
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Title Annotation:Tilting at Windmills
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Date:Sep 1, 2003
Words:75
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