http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code Where experience, logic and ideas trump political correctness and the status quo every time. en-us cwarmbold@ajc.com 2008-04-07T07:27:23-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Where experience, logic and ideas trump political correctness and the status quo every time. http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/04/07/barr_code_blog_on_hiatus.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code The Barr Code blog is on hiatus. Bob Barr has formed an exploratory committee to gauge voter interest in his presidential candidacy as a Libertarian. Read the AJC story Read earlier Barr Code entries... 2922103@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-04-07T07:27:23-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/04/04/documents_reveal_sweep_of_bush.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code For those who still believe the current Bush Administration respects the Fourth Amendment, they might have an interest in reading a recently-released Department of Justice Memo from 2003 that provides legal opinion that torture of detainees in US custody is... 2871903@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-04-04T03:07:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/04/02/home_school_ruling_should_stri.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code Home schooling is an important component of Georgia’s educational framework. Many thousands of families across the state school some 40,000 children in their homes. It is a system that continues to work well for Georgia parents so inclined. From my... 2812803@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-04-02T07:20:24-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/31/a_de_facto_central_bank_of_the.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code When the Federal Reserve Bank (“The Fed”) was set up nearly a century ago, it was not and was not intended to be a “Central Bank of the United States,” in the sense that many other countries, in Europe and... 2752703@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-31T08:03:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/28/real_id_act_heroes.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code Only three states — Maine, New Hampshire and South Carolina — continue to hold out against the pressure and threats by the federal government as it tries to force 100% of the states to comply with the Real ID Act.... 2696203@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-28T00:07:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/26/every_bank_transaction_trigger.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code I am not an Eliot Spitzer fan. The now-former New York governor and I have disagreed privately and publicly on any number of issues, mostly involving questions of prosecutorial abuse. Still, I have great concern with the manner in which... 2637303@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-26T07:00:32-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/24/despite_bush_administration_ef.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code Last week, the U. S. Supreme heard oral arguments in a case that last year found the 32-year gun ban in the District of Columbia unconstitutional. Despite the fact that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the ‘right to keep and... 2550203@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-24T07:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/21/terrorist_watch_list_approache.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code The federal government’s main “terrorist” watch list continues to increase dramatically in size. According to a recent independent analysis, over 900,000 names currently are on the list, which at its current rate of growth will exceed 1,000,000 names by early... 2256603@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-21T07:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/19/wary_eye_on_south_america.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code Iraq and Afghanistan continue to enjoy top billing in America’s newspapers and on our television news programs. With untold billions of dollars flowing regularly into that part of the world and American soldiers continuing to be killed there, it’s no... 2489903@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-19T07:22:06-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/17/loaned_cars_to_be_seized.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code If pending legislation is signed by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, automobile owners in the Peach State may soon run the risk of having their cars seized by the government if they let the wrong person drive them. In yet another... 2181803@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-17T07:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/14/spitzer_investigation_should_r.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code I am not particularly a fan of soon-to-be-ex New York Governor Eliot Spitzer; nor do I comment at this point on his guilt or innocence. However, the manner in which he was investigated, wiretapped, and then targeted for further investigation... 2343303@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-14T07:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/12/cast_wary_eye_on_surveillance.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code It’s become a cottage industry —- scaring the bejesus out of the citizenry in an effort to push U.S. House members into following the example of their Senate counterparts and pass legislation giving the administration legal authority to secretly surveil... 2312403@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-12T06:27:12-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/10/damn_california_city_nixes_swe_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code The City of South Pasadena, California, just outside Los Angeles, proclaimed the first week in March “No Cussing Week.” While the city stopped short of making the utterance of swear words actually unlawful, California being, well, California, it’s probably only... 2192603@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-10T06:58:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/07/georgia_schools_may_start_trac.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code A recent study evaluating the degree to which students have knowledge of U.S. history, found that high school graduates entering college earned a failing grade. Not to worry, however — in Georgia at least, state legislators have decided that the... 2164303@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-07T06:52:49-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/entries/2008/03/04/big_brother_endorses_these_pla.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_barr_code Two years ago in this column, I lamented the fact that toy manufacturers were cashing in on society’s headlong rush toward constant and ubiquitous surveillance. I highlighted a Lego construction set that included, as part of a police 18-wheeler, a... 2122003@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/barrcode/ 2008-03-04T07:00:00-05:00