Oh, John J Miller, you are one funny, funny man. You have one of the best satirical music countdown lists I have ever seen. I mean, you actually want us to believe that these are all "conservative" songs?
Ha!
Wait -- you mean you're not kidding? You actually call these the "50 greatest conservative rock songs"? Read More »
The second round of the 2006 World Cup started today, with no sight of the United States team. I'm not even going to go into the Ghana game -- the time-wasting, the horrible penalty call, Landon Donovan's lack of ... well, lack of anything....
I'll concentrate on today's games. The Mexico-Argentina night match was a game for the ages. At times, it wasn't pretty, but this was truly a game that could go either way. Read More »
It was revealed Thursday night that the US government is tracking bank data data around the world, including "thousands of Americans". The government is defending this, saying that they are only tracking bank data "was carefully controlled to trace only those transactions with an identifiable link to possible terrorist activity." (NY Times) Read More »
I usually go to Google News to check out what's going on. It's among my stops around the internet that include the normal Democratic/Progressive blogs.
I found a headline that said, "Oh Where, Oh Where is the WMD Coverage?" I thought it was going to be a piece with a sarcastic title. After all, even the intelligence agencies themselves said these weren't examples of WMDs. And if they were WMDs, they weren't produced in the past 15 years. Read More »
Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is in trouble, so he went to the friend of all politicians out of ideas: the lie.
Santorum said, "We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons." He was referring to blister agents in shells along the Iranian border. Many were inactive. But Santorum insisted they were the lost WMDs
This was debunked by, well, everyone. Not just liberals on ThinkProgress and Daily Kos, but also by US intelligence itself.
Neither the military nor the White House nor the CIA considered the shells to be evidence of what was alleged by the Bush administration to be a current Iraqi program to make chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Read More »
I first read about this over at Americablog, so thanks to John in DC for finding this out.
Various law enforcement agencies have used companies of dubious legality to get personal information -- in this case, phone records -- without a warrant. The Associated Press reported that
Numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies have bypassed subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered Americans' personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers. Read More »
Now that they have the majority, the Conservatives sitting on the Supreme Court are becoming more bold. Especially in issues of restricting our rights to privacy. The latest issue has to do with the so-called "knock and announce" rule that was (notice past tense) to be used when serving search warrants.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday substantially diminished Americans' right to privacy in their own homes. The rule that police officers must "knock and announce" themselves before entering a private home is a venerable one, and a well-established part of Fourth Amendment law. But President George W. Bush's two recent Supreme Court appointments have now provided the votes for a 5- to-4 decision eviscerating this rule. Read More »Source: New York Times
