It’s the Holiday Season, and I’m with the family- so posting will mostly be limited to blog and news roundups concentrated on one or two topics each.
The Alito Angle:
Summary via Mercury News:
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps for national security when he worked at the Reagan […]
Site update time. I think I’m going to try and write a little something about running this site each week. Yeah, I’ll probably give up after one or two weeks, but it might be interesting to read for a bit.
This week, I’d like to write a bit about referring URLs. I started running the […]
Via Atrios and AMERICAblog comes this story:
EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear Monitoring of Muslims Done Without Search Warrants
In search of a terrorist nuclear bomb, the federal government since 9/11 has run a far-reaching, top secret program to monitor radiation levels at over a hundred Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area, including mosques, homes, businesses, and warehouses, plus […]
Late breaking news tonight, AP has a story out titled “Iraqis March, Say Elections Were Rigged.” Now I can’t imagine how that could be good news. AP describes the street demonstrations as “large,” here’s a choice quote:
Large demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters say were rigged in favor […]
A frequent tactic of the Republican Noise Machine has been to attack Democrats for comparing Bush to Hitler, the Nazis, fascists, etc. As with most Republican criticisms, these usually have no basis - the most popular one, involving a claim that MoveOn.org ran ads comparing Bush to Hitler, has been thoroughly debunked. However, I think […]
FOX NEWS- The Network for NeoNazis.
Folks, this story is bigger than I thought. And you’re going to have to spare any typos I make, because I’m writing this up as quickly as possible before I get on a plane for holiday travel to be with the family. Read on…
Surely O’Reilly will have something to say about this.
In tomorrow’s WaPo:
The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority “in the United States” in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in today’s Washington Post.
Now I don’t know what it would […]
Earlier today, I was talking with a fellow congress-watcher, and we were musing about what would become of the PATRIOT act later today- after the House passed a 1 month extension. I said to my friend something along the lines of “Tonight the PATRIOT will go back to the Senate, but I dunno how many […]
Not that it’ll really make a difference to him (with a net worth between 30 and 100 million dollars), but good old Dick will be getting an extra four thousand dollars per year, starting this January. He’ll be getting 212,100 dollars a year, instead of a paltry $208,100. This is part of a uniform 1.9 […]
This afternoon, a story has surfaced about a local FOX affiliate running a one sided piece which praises and advertises a site known for its members white supremacist and anti-Semitic viewpoints. At first it didn’t seem like a particularly big story (hey, it is FOX, and it’s just a local affil after all), but its […]
Okay. I’m struggling to justify the work required on my part to update the Frontpage on a vaguely regular basis. At the moment, I’m going to try just running the site “topless” so to speak, without the Frontpage. We’ll see what happens. At the very least, this should motivate me to post more images on […]
I had been hearing rumblings of this for a short time, but TalkLeft just wrote up a short entry on it. The angle is, Bush’s warrentless surveillance could actually hurt ongoing terror cases in courts at the moment.
I suspect there will be a lot of motions filed under this section, not just in terror cases, […]
Already mentioned congressional and FISA Court reactions to SpyGate, but what of public reaction?
Florida: A small peace group formed last year has already been spied upon by the Pentagon, due to their anti-military recruitment efforts. They’re considering a lawsuit.
More to follow, as stories come in. If you find a story, feel free to tip me
A week later.
AMERICAblog has a short piece on the recent Iraqi Parliamentary elections which transpired last week. Discussed are complaints of vote fraud.
Robert Dreyfuss also has a piece over at TomPaine, which begins thusly:
The last hope for peace in Iraq was stomped to death this week. The victory of the Shiite religious coalition in the […]
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