Thanks only to 10 Senators

For the record - and I will remember this - these are the only Senators who stood up for my civil liberties by voting against the renewal of the USA Patriot Act.
I thank you:

Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Ron Wyden (D-OR) [...]

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Dirty politics

Sheesh, what next?
Charles Babington, The Washington Post:
“In bitingly partisan exchanges yesterday, lawmakers plunged into the dispute over Karl Rove’s hand in leaking a covert CIA operative’s identity.”
Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) proposed an amendment aimed at Rove “to deny access to classified information to any federal employee who discloses a covert CIA agent’s [...]

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Notes on “Feminazi”

Rush Limbaugh defends his use of the term “feminazi” as “right” and “accurate” in response to a June 22 Washington Post article on Sen. Richard J. Durbin’s (D-IL) controversial floor statement that referenced Nazis. The Post article mentioned Limbaugh’s use of the term “feminazi” as well as other examples of recent political debates in which [...]

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