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U.S. on Republicans: "Wrong Track"
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 »May 17, 12:44 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
Betray Privacy, Pay $200,000,000,000
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 »May 17, 12:43 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
A Pre-Conceived Notion
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 »May 17, 12:00 AM ET| Tim Dickinson -
A Small Dose of Compassionate Conservatism
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 »May 16, 4:07 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
Anti-Terror Tool Turned on Muckrakers
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 »May 16, 3:52 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
From the Dept. of Daily Show-ology
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 »May 16, 12:00 AM ET| Tim Dickinson -
"No Attempt to Militarize the Border"
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 »May 15, 5:39 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
Class Action: The Verizon Lawsuit
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 »May 15, 5:37 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
VP: "Or Did His Wife Send Him on a Junket?"
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 »May 15, 1:20 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
Live From New York: Al Gore's Revival
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 »May 15, 1:06 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
Americans Against Spying
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 »May 15, 1:00 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
Bush Admin Spying on Journos
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 »May 15, 12:00 AM ET| Tim Dickinson -
An Open Letter to America (Bcc: Big Brother)
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 »May 12, 3:15 PM ET| Tim Dickinson -
Bush Revokes Fourth Amendment
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 »May 11, 12:00 AM ET| Tim Dickinson
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