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Personal, hard decisions

“The Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ is frequently exhausted, but otherwise fine. She’s even “posted herself about getting pregnant”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/wordpress/?p=248. We’re keeping our fingers crossed. As far as we know, everything is fine. But we’re anxious nonetheless.
It’s partly the fault of all the pregnancy books which do such a great job of telling you how many ways things can go wrong. [...]

License to kill!

!/textpattern/images/35.jpg! Via “Washingtonrox”:http://washingtonrox.blogspot.com/2006/02/king-murderer.html I see the Justice department thinks “the President can order people killed “:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11180519/site/newsweek/. Like, on the street. Without arresting them first.
Of course, there are some instances where someone can be killed by law enforcement without being arrested. If he or she is in the act of committing a violent crime or is [...]

False specificity

Ooo! Kevin Drum of _Political Animal_ has “this lovely analysis”:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_04/003627.php of a “Washington Times article”:http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040406-121654-1495r.htm claiming Clinton didn’t focus on _al Qaeda_. The article claims that Clinton’s final policy paper on national security mentions bin Laden only four times and _al Qaeda_ not at all, which demonstrates that _al Qaeda_ was not a main focus [...]

US still vulnerable

In U.S., Terrorism’s Peril Undiminished
Well, of course it is.
The president is far more concerned with Iraq than he is Osama bin Laden and billions of dollars are being spent on a missile defense system that doesn’t even work. More billions are being spent to support a massive tax cut to Bush’s friends. Iraq, Missile Defense, TIA — it’s [...]

*mmph*

I’m sorry, I find all of this deeply distressing.
The PATRIOT Act is passed with significant expansion of surveillance and information gathering while significantly reducing judicial oversight. They can:
Snoop your email and web browsing.
Secretly search homes and offices.
Secretly obtain copies of medical, school, and library records; criminalizes disclosure of these searches. (Your librarian can’t tell [...]

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