Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jul. 8--Twenty-five agriculture and consumer groups, including three based in Wisconsin, have asked the U.S. Senate for immediate public hearings and oversight of the nation's largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Faced with growing international pressure, the Pentagon is changing its policy on cluster bombs and plans to reduce the danger of unexploded munitions in the deadly explosives.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Faced with growing international pressure, the Pentagon is changing its policy on cluster bombs and plans to reduce the danger of unexploded munitions in the deadly explosives.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Faced with growing international pressure, the Pentagon is changing its policy on cluster bombs and plans to reduce the danger of unexploded munitions in the deadly explosives.
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | yesterday
Faced with growing international pressure, the Pentagon is changing its policy on cluster bombs and plans to reduce the danger of unexploded munitions in the deadly explosives.
Threat Level (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Tuesday as the Senate resumes considering whether to hand new dragnet spy powers to the nation's spooks and to grant retroactive amnesty to telecoms that secretly helped the government warrantlessly spy on Americans for five years. The Senate seems set to bless the president's...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The three members of Vermont's congressional delegation are calling on Congress to increase federal spending on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In case you missed it last Friday, The New York Times had this story on Michael O’Neill, President Bush’s nominee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Last year, a peer-reviewed journal, Supreme Court Economic Review, issued...
Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
During the week of July 11-20, cable/sattelite network ReelzChannel will be preparing us for the release of the most anticipated movie of the year- The Dark Knight . For 10 days, ReelzChannel TV and their website, Reelzchannel.com, will provide us all with a masters-level education on the Batman franchise with interviews, retrospectives, trivia, production notes, and much more.
DATA news (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is used to dealing with real men in black as he oversees the federal judiciary. But since childhood, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman also has been fanatic about the fictitious black-caped crusader who metes out his own brand of vigilante justice.
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
PUMA thinks that the amazing rescue of the people who had been held in the jungles of Columbia for five years will have some impact on the election. I’m not sure if they are right. It is a complicated story and most people have a very short memory. But, I hope they’re on to [...]
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
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Later On (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Mike Lillis has an important story in the Washington Independent, which begins: For privacy advocates and civil libertarians, June (not April) was the cruelest month. First, House Democratic leaders passed a long-negotiated compromise bill expanding the Bush administration’s electronic surveillance authority, including legal immunity for any wrongdoing that the phone companies might have committed...
Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Steven Aftergood at Secrecy News reminds us that Friday July 4th is the 42nd anniversary of Lyndon Johnson signing the Freedom of Information Act into law. Interesting, but frankly, FOIA hasn’t aged well. Meant to be “Democracy’s X-Ray,” allowing journalists and other citizens to ferret out waste, fraud, abuse and corruption the reality is [...]
Where's the Outrage? (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. You [...]
