More Jackbooting
Eric Lictblau and James Risen of the New York Times on Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon: The Bush administration and leading Senate Republicans sought today to give the Central Intelligence...
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Radical Conservatives
Nat Hentoff on Conservatives Rise for the Bill of Rights! A significant development in the movement to resist the Ashcroft-Bush dismembering of the Bill of Rights is the growing coalition between conservative groups and...
Hawaii Criticizes PATRIOT Act
HawaiiNews.com on State takes stand against Patriot Act: Island lawmakers have made Hawaii the first state to take a stand against the controversial USA Patriot Act, passing a resolution "reaffirming the state of Hawaii's...
Chemical Weapons Still Hiding
The Sydney Morning Herald on Vilified weapons inspectors may have got it right: President George Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, is now acknowledging that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program is less clear-cut,...
French Kiss
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Boycott the Boycotters: O’Reilly and others want Americans to lay off French products because France’s president, Jacques Chirac, didn’t parrot the Bush line on war...
Movie Title?
I need some help. I'm trying to remember the title of a movie I rented in 1992 or 1993. There were 2 main characters – a children's book author and an interrogator/torturer. The basic...
Racial Collectivist Nonsense
In a strange twist of collectivist nonsense, paleoconservative David Yeagley (Bad Eagle) has equated “interracial” sex with communism in a recent commentary on Why Communism Loves Indians. “Communists say they are agents of social...
TIA Filters
Dan Caterinicchia of Federal Computer Week on DARPA funds TIA privacy study: Under the contract, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Palo Alto Research Center engineers will focus on creating privacy filters, "aliasing"...
Boot on Your Neck
Jason Halperin of Alternet on Patriot Raid: Two weeks ago I experienced a very small taste of what hundreds of South Asian immigrants and U.S. citizens of South Asian descent have gone through since...
False Controversy
Aacia Hussain of the Northern Star on Interracial dating: Controversy?: There are many things which cause us to stop what we’re doing and stare – a car accident, a fight or maybe a fire....