I'm taking this time to speak publicly about an item of maddening frustration every world traveler suffers with, but is powerless to solve or to combat: your cell phone!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate GOP fundraising arm is soliciting donations by vowing to defeat Democrats who want to repeal the retroactive immunity granted last year to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
The blogosphere is all abuzz with Rick Santelli again. Seems he got into one of those trademarked shouting matches on CNBC -- your source for tradema...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Calculated Risk has some great highlights of Bill Moyers interview with University of Missouri professor William K. Black that are worth reading. Her...
Chris Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011
Retroactive immunity sends this message: "Trust me" -- a message coming straight from the mouth of President Bush. I would never take "trust me" for an answer, not even from a president on Mount Rushmore.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 11.17.2011
I guess it makes more sense to celebrate our freedom from government tyranny and interference before we give them the okay to monitor our private conversations. No one wants to be a party pooper.
Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's recent statement on the new surveillance bill serves as a reminder that he is a politician. Not in either a negative or positive sense. It's just a plain fact.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
The Democrats who voted with the Republicans on FISA are actually worse than Joe Lieberman. Why? Because at least we know what we're getting with Lieberman.
Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) blasted the surveillance compromise bill on the Senate floor today: This legislation has been billed as a compromise betwe...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
House Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last week's FISA bill took thousands of dollars more ...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
The Democrats are about to lose to Bush and the grossly unpopular Republicans again on FISA and telecom immunity. But are they really losing? That depends on what your objective is.
CBS News | David S. Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., issued a statement in support of the House's update of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but said he would try to ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign released a statement Friday afternoon saying that while Obama opposes amnesty for telecom firms that spied on Americans, ...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The House on Friday easily approved a compromise bill setting new electronic surveillance rules that effectively shield telecommuni...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011
With a sweeping revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passing the House today -- in a version including near-certain immunity f...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
President Bush is the most unpopular president of all time -- literally. But if you keep losing to the worst, what does that make you?
Daily Kos | Posted 05.25.2011
A final deal has been reached on a rewrite of electronic surveillance rules and will be announced Thursday, two congressional aides said. The aides s...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders have agreed to a compromise surveillance bill that would effectively shield from civil lawsuits the teleco...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Bush, at loggerheads with House Democrats over how closely the government can eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, warned Wednesda...
Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
The Democratic-led Congress, with the support of key House leaders, is moving quickly to expand unconstitutional spying authority on Americans and reward telecoms for breaking the law.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011
By flip flopping on the constitutionality of the NSA's surveillance program, and giving key telecom lobbyists prominent play in his campaign, McCain shows that he, too, can be bought.
Politico | Chris Frates | Posted 05.25.2011
When a federal judge ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John A. Boehner and his attorneys more than $1 million in damages and leg...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of "special interest lobbyists," yet dozens of lobbyists have political and ...
Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 05.25.2011
House Judiciary Committee Democrats say they analyzed the telecom spying documents they've sought for more than a year and have come to the conclusion...
Kevin Richberg | Posted 04.18.2012