Dems Likely to Cave on Surveillance
by The NY Times says: Two months after vowing to roll back broad new wiretapping powers won by the Bush administration, Congressional Democrats appear ready to …
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National Guard Shorted Benefits?
WCSH, a NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine, reports that members of the Minnesota National Guard, who had been deployed in Iraq for 22 months, are …
WW II Vets Decry Torture
Writing about a group of veterans who were responsible for interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt during WW II, Petula Dvorak of the Washington Post writes: Back …
The "F**k This" Test
Colorado State University’s Board of Student Communications met yesterday and decided that David McSwane, the editor-in-chief of the Rocky Mountain Collegian newspaper, will keep his …
Progressives Hold Up FISA Modifications?
Earlier today the Huffington Post reported that the Democratic leadership in the House postponed announcing a new set of proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence …
China to be on Moon before U.S.?
CNN reports that Michael Griffin, NASA’s administrator, told an audience in Washington D.C. that: “I personally believe that China will be back on the moon …
Would the World be Better Off…
…if the U.S. loses the war in Iraq? Fox News asked that question of 900 registered voters and came up with what I think is …
Legal Immigration Dysfunction
The illegal immigration problem is out of control in the U.S. That’s not news. What may not be so obvious is that the legal immigration …