Posted by Moonage on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Iran
There is probably not a blog I respect more than The Volokh Conspiracy. They’re not the flashy in-your-face types, they’re mostly lawyers with a moderate tone that seem to try to tackle legal issues from a pragmatic angle. I like that. There’s too much shock and awe cluttering the internet for the sake of nothing [...]
Posted by Moonage on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Opinions
In Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, he goes to great lengths to point out that guns are legal in Canada, but their violence rate is substantially less than that of the US. So, it must be some political and social issue unique to the US. He goes ON and ON and ON, about that fact, [...]
Posted by Moonage on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: International Issues
One of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted militants has died in custody after being wounded in a gunbattle in which he killed five policemen, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Mohammed al-Suwailmi, who was No. 7 on the list of the kingdom’s 15 most wanted suspects, died late Tuesday, bringing to nine the number of [...]
Posted by Moonage on 27 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: The Media
First we had this:
That year, following the September 11 attacks, Bush authorized the NSA to monitor the international phone calls and international e-mails of hundreds — perhaps thousands — of people inside the United States, the Times reported.
Before the program began, the NSA typically limited its domestic surveillance to foreign embassies and missions and obtained [...]
Posted by Moonage on 23 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
Some members of Senate wanted more time to get the bugs worked out of The Patriot Act. Congress said let’s take a year or so. The Senate decided that was too long. So, they said let’s take six months. Congress decided that as well was too long and said let’s take one month. The Senate [...]
Posted by Moonage on 22 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Opinions
Without having anything to go on, I think the root of the oppositin to The Patriot Act is seeded a lot deeper than "the wiretap scandal". You have to go back about a decade to understand the chain of events that led to this current debate IMO. I did a synopsis over "what went wrong" [...]
Posted by Moonage on 22 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
Dahlia Lithwick of Slate has a LONG article on why the Bush administration won’t obey the law. She sums up the gist of her opinion as such:
At the start of this "war," Congress thought it was authorizing the use of force in Afghanistan. But now we’ve learned that in so doing it also gave the [...]
Posted by Moonage on 21 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
Russ Feingold is an idiot. He gave this statement supporting his opposition to The Patriot Act:
"Yesterday morning, Republican and Democratic Senators blocked a flawed bill that extended parts of the Patriot Act that are set to expire without fixing the fundamental problems with the law. Nobody wants these parts of the Patriot Act to expire [...]
Posted by Moonage on 21 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Businesses, Oil Supply
Almost immediately upon the release of the ANWR decision in the Senate, this happens:
Apparently the business sector doesn’t like the events of the last 24 hours any more than I do.
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Posted by Moonage on 21 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: International Politics, Legislative Process, National Politics, Oil Policy, Oil Supply, Opinions, Politics
In the last 24 hours, the Democrats:
Returned us to the intelligence agenda that led directly to 9/11.
Told the Middle East that we’re not willing to do what it takes to lessen our reliance on them. Keep sending those terrorists, it’s no biggie.
Didn’t mind too much cutting benefits for the poor, but were willing to stop [...]
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