Weekly Weirdness for July 4th, 2008 »
By John on Jul 5, 2008 in Congress, Crime, General, Places, Politics, Society, Tampa | 0 Comments
All the weird stuff from the weekend ending on Friday, July 4th, 2008.
Watch List Datamart »
By John on Apr 9, 2007 in Constitution, Politics, Society, Technology | 2 Comments
The master list the federal government keeps of known and suspected terrorists, from which other government agencies derive their own watch lists, already hundreds of thousands of names large, is growing out of control, filling with “fragmentary,” “inconsistent” and “sometimes just flat-out wrong” information, a top counterterrorism official said.
No Protection For The Innocent »
By John on Sep 28, 2006 in Congress, Constitution, Election, Politics, War | 0 Comments
We’ve heard the rhetoric before. Republicans are repackaging their “tough on crime” speeches as “tough on terror” and complaining that anyone who stands in the way of increasing executive power at the expense of individual rights is “coddling” — criminals or terrorists, your pick.
And so we have Dennis Hastert saying:
“Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and [...]
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