http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562528/site/newsweek/
Daschle: Congress Denied Bush War Powers in U.S. - "The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority "in the United States" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in today's Washington Post."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122202119.html
Just how extensive is NSA's spy program? - " "The clues are piling up that vacuum-cleaner style dragnets are what's at issue," John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in a mailing list message on Thursday. "Perhaps they've pointed the NSA vacuum cleaner straight into all U.S.-based international telecommunications.""
http://news.com.com/Just+how+extensive+is+NSAs+spy+program/2100-1028_3-6006326.html?tag=nefd.top
Patriot Act Extension Is Reduced To a Month - "The House balked yesterday at a Senate plan to extend the USA Patriot Act by six months to give Congress and President Bush more time to work out their differences, instead forcing the Senate and the administration to accept a one-month extension."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122202016.html
CALIFORNIA ACLU asks state if it is providing data to FBI Group concerned after Iraq meeting at Stanford watched - "The American Civil Liberties Union asked the state Wednesday to reveal whether law enforcement agents were gathering information on California activists, in light of revelations that the federal government monitored a conference on Iraq at Stanford University and an anti-war protest at UC Santa Cruz."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/22/BAGAKGBM2C1.DTL
Columnist Says Bush Knows Who Leaked Name - "Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak, who has repeatedly declined to discuss his role in disclosing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, said in a speech this week that he is certain President Bush knows who his mystery administration source is. Novak said Tuesday that the public and press should be asking the president about the official rather than pressing journalists who received the information."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402121.html?sub=AR
Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed - "Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.” He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam."
http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml
Alito Argued to Overturn Roe in 1985 Memo - "Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in a June 1985 memo that the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion should be overturned."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/23/D8EM0U180.html
Boy joins a sordid online world through his Webcam - "The 13-year-old boy sat in his California home, eyes fixed on a computer screen. ... So began the secret life of a teenager who was lured into selling images of his body on the Internet over the course of five years. From the seduction that began that day, this soccer-playing honor roll student was drawn into performing in front of the Webcam --undressing, showering, masturbating and even having sex--for an audience of more than 1,500 people who paid him, over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars. ... The business has created youthful Internet pornography stars--with nicknames like Riotboyy, Miss Honey and Gigglez--whose images are traded online long after their sites have vanished. In this world, adolescents announce schedules of their next masturbation for customers who pay fees for the performance or monthly subscription charges. Eager customers can even buy "private shows," in which teenagers sexually perform while following real-time instructions."
http://news.com.com/Boy+joins+a+sordid+online+world+through+his+Webcam/2100-1047_3-6004925.html?tag=nefd.lede
A Firefox for music? - "With their first technical preview expected early next year, the programmers want to create music-playing software that will work naturally with the growing number of music sites and services on the Web, instead of being focused on songs on a computer's hard drive. That's where iTunes, which plugs only into Apple's own music store, falls short, Lord argues. Apple's iTunes is "like Internet Explorer, if Internet Explorer could only browse Microsoft.com," Lord said. "We love Apple, and appreciate and thank them for setting the bar in terms of user experience. But it's inevitable that the market architecture changes as it matures.""
http://news.com.com/A+Firefox+for+music/2100-1027_3-6004737.html?tag=nefd.top
Your Right to Be an Idiot - "So, what to do with Wikipedia? And, in a broader sense, what to do with the free flow of information on the internet?
In a word, nothing. Having access to the internet is a little like handing a kid a loaded gun. In the wrong hands it can be intellectually lethal. In terms of being a reliable source, the web is a minefield to be navigated very carefully. There is plenty of useful information to be had, but the place is a nest of vipers, too. ... Still, do you regulate the internet to "protect" us from ingesting information that is wrong, deliberately misleading, whacked out, even harmful? Uh-uh. That's your own responsibility, as an educated participant in a free society. (The "educated" part is a bit tricky these days, I'll grant you, but that's fodder for another column.) There's an old expression in the newspaper business: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." In other words, make sure your bullshit detector is always on. Be skeptical of what you're told, of what you read. Cross-check your facts with other sources. What applies in the newsroom applies tenfold on the internet, where anybody is free to post any damned thing they want to."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,69903-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_7
Quote of the Day
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
~ Harry S. Truman
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