LATEST BLOG POSTS

• U.S. on Republicans: "Wrong Track"

  May 17, 12:44 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, 69 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. Sixty-three percent disapprove of the way the G... | More »

• Betray Privacy, Pay $200,000,000,000

  May 17, 12:43 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The class action suit against Verizon over the release of customer phone records has now been expanded to include AT&T and Bell South, and the dollar figure has quadru... | More »

• A Pre-Conceived Notion

  May 17, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Are you "pre-pregnant"? The government wants all you post-pubescent women to quit your drinking, your smoking, and start popping folic acid. Because that fetus that yo... | More »

• A Small Dose of Compassionate Conservatism

  May 16, 4:07 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  I've gotta give Bush some credit on his immigration plan. Yes, the National Guard deployment is an embarrassing farce. As Marc Cooper said it best: "The real mis... | More »

• Anti-Terror Tool Turned on Muckrakers

  May 16, 3:52 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  I had been feeling that the controversy surrounding the USA Patriot Act was incredibly overblown —particularly in light of the almost unfathomable privacy abuses per... | More »

• From the Dept. of Daily Show-ology

  May 16, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  This study out of the esteemed University of East Carolina, purporting to document the deleterious effects of the Daily Show, is hopelessly speculative academic gasbag... | More »

• "No Attempt to Militarize the Border"

  May 15, 5:39 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  That's the bizzaro spin from Bush press secretary Tony Snow on the president's new proposal to send as many as 10,000 armed military personnel from the Natio... | More »

• Class Action: The Verizon Lawsuit

  May 15, 5:37 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Verizon is already in the crosshairs of a $50 billion class action suit over the release of customer phone records, and AT&T and Bell South customers may be able to jo... | More »

• VP: "Or Did His Wife Send Him on a Junket?"

  May 15, 1:20 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Dick Cheney's handwritten notes on Joe Wilson's New York Times column have been released as part of the Scooter Libby filings. Will this scandal eventually t... | More »

• Live From New York: Al Gore's Revival

  May 15, 1:06 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  This is the funniest opening SNL sketch of the'00s. If nothing else, Gore has a future as a co-anchor with Stephen Colbert. | More »

• Americans Against Spying

  May 15, 1:00 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  A majority of Americans disapprove of the NSA's domestic phone call monitoring, according to a poll by USA Today. More than two-thirds are concerned the program g... | More »

• Bush Admin Spying on Journos

  May 15, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Glad to see this phone tap program is strictly limited to Al Qaeda. From ABC: A senior federal law enforcement official tells us the government is tracking the phone ... | More »

• An Open Letter to America (Bcc: Big Brother)

  May 12, 3:15 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  You. Yeah, you out there. How do you feel about having been swept up in the biggest criminal dragnet ever devised? Our phone calls —along with those of as many as 2... | More »

• Bush Revokes Fourth Amendment

  May 11, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The NSA, having apparently determined that making a phone call is a gateway activity to terrorism, has partnered up with Verizon, AT&T and Bell South to track the dome... | More »