WASHINGTON-In a slight shift from his campaign trail promise, President Obama announced Monday that his administration's message of "Change" has been modified to the somewhat more restrained slogan "Relatively Minor Readjustments in Certain Favorable Policy Areas." "Today, Americans face a great many challenges, and I hear your desperate calls for ( Read more... )

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I should point out I'm shocked I wasn't beat to this post by tonysalieri.

WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Veteran Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter told colleagues Tuesday that he switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party, Sen. Harry Reid says.
Sen. Arlen Specter was expected to face a tough primary challenge in 2010.

The Specter party switch would give Democrats ( Read more... )

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Seriously LJ, why did you have to start with the audio ads? I don't want to hear "Congratulations you've won a fee wii" when I look at someone's journal. Basic netequitte, stuff it with the automatic audio.

While I am not condoning their actions, the idea that this was a black and white situation with defined good guys and evil pirates is absurd at best. Unfortunately, many people (including some who are normally quite informed on things) are missing a large, and somewhat significant, part of this story.

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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Friday that it would appeal a district court ruling that granted some military prisoners in Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release. The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended ( Read more... )

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To quote Kevin Bankston, from the EFF:

"President Obama promised the American people a new era of transparency, accountability, and respect for civil liberties. But with the Obama Justice Department continuing the Bush administration's cover-up of the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans, and insisting that the ( Read more... )

Says Court Must Dismiss Jewel v. NSA to Protect 'State Secrets'

San Francisco - The Obama administration formally adopted the Bush administration's position that the courts cannot judge the legality of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) warrantless wiretapping program, filing a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA late Friday.

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Cybersecurity Bill Proposes Unprecedented Government Power Over the Internet - A cybersecurity bill introduced today in the Senate would give the federal government extraordinary power over private sector Internet services, applications and software. ( Read more... )