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Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?

Politics – Next week the Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few amendments to immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in warrantless and illegal wiretapping. That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution even made it out of committee is yet another stain on Cong

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Silly Christians Praying For Cheap Gasoline

Religion – Rockville preacher Rocky Twyman started this goofiness in April, annoying station owners and managers in D.C.- and prices began rising rapidly. Undeterred, he has spread his dumb movement to places like Florida and Ohio. Wherever his prayerful dupes show up, gas prices rise even faster. Guess how he tops this!

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Source: Protective order will keep Viacom out of sensitive YouTube user data

Do No Evil – Google has been ordered to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom. But Viacom will be guilty of contempt of court if it uses that data for anything other than specifically proving the prevalence of piracy on YouTube, a source close to Viacom told CNET News.com on Thursday.

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Voted for on July 04, 2008 09:19am

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FBI might use profiling in terror investigations

Politics – The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

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Voted for on July 03, 2008 10:51pm Commented on 4 times: 1 2 3 4

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White House says ruling could free detainees in US

Politics – The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detainees' legal rights. Federal appeals courts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting that happen.

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Voted for on July 03, 2008 09:49pm Commented on 1 time: 1

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Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps - NYTimes.com

News – A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the "exclusive" means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government's claim that the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law.

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Why We Went to War in Iraq

News – A lot of poor commentary has framed the Iraq war as a conflict of "choice" rather than of "necessity." In fact, President George W. Bush chose to remove Saddam Hussein from power because he concluded that doing so was necessary.

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FOX News Doctors NY Times Photos

Television – Fox News has sunk to a new low. On Wednesday, the network displayed photos that its editors had doctored of two New York Times employees--reporter Jacques Steinberg, and editor Steven Radcliffe. The before and after photos can be seen here.

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Believe Me, It's Torture

Do No Evil – What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist -- not inflict -- it.

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Voted for on July 02, 2008 09:12pm Commented on 2 times: 1 2

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Unfair and unbalanced: Fox News' coverage of Obama tops the bias scale

Television – Fox News, whose slogan is "Fair and Balanced," seems to have gone above and beyond in its anti-Obama rhetoric. Fox News seems to be the willing source of many of the smears and have displayed an unhealthy willingness to pass on as fact any unsourced or unfounded allegation that will put the Obamas in the worst light possible.

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Military to seek death penalty for USS Cole suspect

News – The U.S. military will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, making him the first person charged in the United States for the attack on the USS Cole, an Air Force general said Monday.

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NKorea destroying symbol of atomic weapons program

News – The gray cooling tower stands 60 feet above North Korea's main nuclear reactor complex, the most visible symbol of its atomic weapons program.

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Voted for on June 30, 2008 09:55pm Commented on 1 time: 1

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Bush's war on Iran has already started

News – The administration has greatly escalated "covert operations" against Iran in the past year, according to a revelatory New Yorker piece by Seymour Hersh.

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Bush's top general quashed torture dissent

Do No Evil – The former Air Force general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, helped quash dissent from across the U.S. military as the Bush administration first set up a brutal interrogation regime for terrorism suspects, according to newly public documents and testimony from an ongoing Senate probe.

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