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Opinion: Still cleaning up mess at Justice Department

In the midst of a tumultuous time in Washington and Wall Street, there was this piece of positive news out of our nation's capital: Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed a federal prosecutor to investigate the dismissal of...

Army on U.S. patrol?

It's painful for us in the mainstream media to concede points to the online blogosphere, but sometimes things are the way they are. Recently, except for bloggers, most media, online or otherwise, pretty much ignored another...

FBI rules may invite abuses, foes say

WASHINGTON – Justice Department officials released new guidelines Friday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States, alarming civil liberties groups and Democratic...

Key senators oppose DRM, ISP filtering in secret ACTA treaty [Ars Technica]

Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, who head the Senate Judiciary Committee, don't like what they're hearing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). A new letter to ACTA negotiators "strongly urges" them not to...

Even Senators Who Want Stronger Copyright Laws Are Worried About ACTA

Following the recent Congressional hearings about ACTA, Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter (who were behind the Senate ProIP bill that would put a copyright czar in the White House and unsuccessfully tried to make the FBI...

PRO-IP senators concerned anti-counterfeiting treaty may be too broad

Posted by Stephanie Condon | Post a comment Two senators known for their support of stringent intellectual property enforcement expressed concern on Thursday that an anti-counterfeiting treaty currently being drafted may be too...

Lexington: Reaping the whirlwind

George Busha€™s presidency is ending in disasterPLENTY of people can be blamed for the calamity on Capitol Hill on September 29th. Two-hundred and twenty-eight congressmen decided they were ready to risk another Great...

Sarah Palin Revealed

Contact: Tracy McCarter, 800-927-0517 ext. 109 MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- In the history of American politics there has never been a more explosive, history-making decision than the naming of Alaskan...

Stretching so far they should call it Yoga: On Palin, Obama and basketball

Your guess is as good as mine I get a lot of garbage in my inbox that really reaches to make a point. I do my best to ignore the really flagrant crap, but sometimes I just can’t. Case in point: An e-mail from the...

Orphan works bill could open library collections to the Web

GCN Content/Record Management topic index GCN Web Strategies topic index The Senate last week passed a bill that would make it easier for universities, archives and libraries, including the Library of Congress, to digitize and...

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