July 10, 2008 - By now, we all know the Senate has approved the bitterly contested rewrite of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, overhauling rules on secret government eavesdropping and shielding telecommunications companies from lawsuits. Sounds pretty cut and dried, right? Well, do you know what...
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July 11, 2008 - Hey kids! Remember a couple years back when we found out that the president was breaking the law by illegally wiretapping citizens anytime he felt like it? Well, as of this week...
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July 10, 2008 - You may not have heard because it's not really being covered by the news, but the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been passed! And--this is the awesome part--telecom immunity.
That means that corporation...
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July 10, 2008 - The crowd roars as Obama takes the stage in a local town hall somewhere in middle America, where people know their neighbors, and the word "value" still means something other than a goddamn dollar sign. He is in rare form: eloquent, poised, truly transcendent. He addresses the roaring crowd...
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June 25, 2008 - I am going to pull an Obama and preempt anyone who might call me insensitive by saying up front that I am not insensitive and anyone who calls me names for this blog is really the insensitive one. I am trying to do a service to young men here!
I...
June 24, 2008 - Evidence is building that Barack Obama is as crafty as a Republican. His support of President Bush's FISA bill caused Glenn Greenwald to write, "Obama's willingness to embrace that rancid framework... i...
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