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By Lesley Blanch $22.50
By Orville Schell (Foreword), Wayne Miller
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The Sept. 11 attacks “did not give the president the limitless power he now claims to intrude on the private communications of the American people,” the N.Y. Times says in an editorial about the NSA spying story.
Posted on May 11, 2006
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 From ThinkProgress
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The president claims that the program activities “strictly target Al Qaeda and their known affiliates,” despite USA Today’s claim that the NSA has pored over the records of tens of millions of Americans.
Posted on May 11, 2006
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 Clinton: smh.com.au / Murdoch: dnevnik.com.hr
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Just who is this woman who is accepting a fundraiser thrown by Rupert Murdoch, asks columnist Richard Cohen in this incisive piece.
Meanwhile, Hillary defends cozying up with the rabidly right-wing Murdoch: “He’s my constituent.”
Oh, puh-leeze!
Posted on May 11, 2006
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 hardnewsnow.com
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“We’re not mining or trolling though the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,’’ Bush says, without directly addressing the NSA program reported in USA Today.
Meanwhile, GOP Sen. Arlen Specter demands that phone company executives testify before Congress about the data they provided to the NSA.
Posted on May 11, 2006
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 From wcsh6.com
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Many Republican and Democratic lawmakers are furious over the alleged NSA phone record collection program.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: “The idea of collecting millions or thousands of phone numbers, how does that fit into following the enemy?”
Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy: “It is our government, it’s not one party’s government.”
Posted on May 11, 2006
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“The NSA’s gathering of phone call records of millions of Americans is “something that would make the late Leonid Brezhnev proud of Bush—and [Gen.] Michael Hayden, the Pentagon apparatchik, who saw it through,” Buzzflash writes in an editorial.
Posted on May 11, 2006
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Late coming to the story about the NSA’s massive telephone record collection program? The Washington Post does a 360-degree report.
Neither Bush nor his aides denied any facts in the original USA Today story.
Senate Intel Chair Pat Roberts wants to shoot the messenger (USA Today).
Bush’s pick for CIA chief, Gen. Michael Hayden, oversaw this program at the NSA, a fact that guarantees fireworks at his confirmation hearing.
Check out the original story.
Posted on May 11, 2006
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The British attorney general says the continued existence of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is “unacceptable.”
Posted on May 10, 2006
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 newprophecy.net
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That’s the conclusion of a Washington Post article that tracks “a decline in support from almost every part of the conservative coalition over the past year.”
Posted on May 10, 2006
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Fifty-two percent of respondents said they’re leaning toward Democratic candidates in the midterm elections, while only 38% are leaning Republican, according to a CNN poll.
Posted on May 10, 2006
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 From Salon.com
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Salon writer Rebecca Traister doesn’t buy the Washington Post’s big story about the causes behind an alleged rise in impotence among college students.
Posted on May 10, 2006
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 From generationsoflight.myicontrol.com
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A Harvard study further confirms that abstinence pledges are basically bunk.
Want to dig deeper? Check out Purity Balls.
Posted on May 10, 2006
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There has been a “significant increase” in the proportion of teens and young adults engaging in such acts during the last decade, according to STD clinics in Baltimore.
Posted on May 10, 2006
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Although Republicans have been losing ground in polls for some time, poll numbers for Democrats haven’t been rising much at all—until now.
Posted on May 10, 2006
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