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Please, nobody stress the Homeland Security Chief
According to the Associated Press, when asked if he was worn out, the Bush Administration's point person to protect all of us, Tom Ridge said: “I am not aut…
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The Logic of Torture
Mark Danner of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism offers a sobering piece in a recent New York Review of Books on U.S. torture. From his conclusion: The…
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President Obama?
Barack Obama just delivered one of the finest speeches I've ever witnessed. Both personal and universal. It presented to us our most noble selves, and cal…
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Bad News Friday Coming Up: History's Largest Deficit
Early reports indicate that the deficit will be released this Friday. Why Friday? Well, because most of us have better things to do on a weekend than watch th…
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Real Reverse Engineers iPod DRM
Real Networks bravely introduces a new song format that protects the intellectual property rights of the copyright holder but still permits the song to be playe…
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Plaintiffs Move for Discovery
In response to the Government's summary judgment motion, we filed a Rule 56(f) motion and affidavit seeking discovery. As our motion states, the Government…
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Does Rove Run Pentagon?
Does Bush's political advisor Karl Rove run the Pentagon? First, the Pentagon buries the Defense Department's self-study of torture and killing by the…
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CreditCards.com sells for $2.5 million
The sale of creditcards.com for $2.5 million disproves the claim that domain names aren't valuable because of the proliferation of TLDs.…
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Cheney and Leahy Engage in Impossible Acts
A hilarious piece by Paul Simms in the New Yorker detailing new details of the Cheney/Leahy encounter on the floor of the Senate.…
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Ordinary Person's Guide to Republican National Convention Published
Every RNC event, corporate sponsor, delegate hotel, war profiteer in Manhattan, along with anti-rnc events, independent media outlets, protest sanctuaries, publ…
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The Real Berger-Gate
Sandy Berger, loyal American and former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, admits to misfiling papers in the national archives in…
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Life Expectancy Around the World
Since income is only a very incomplete measure of human welfare, I include below the World Bank figures for life expectancy.…