| June 2 |
- Newest McCain official: President has “near dictatorial powers”
- McCain reaches into the most deceptive propaganda organ in America to staff the highest level of his communications apparatus.
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| June 3 |
- McCain, spying and executive power: A complete reversal in 6 months
- Last December, the GOP nominee was giving answers that were the same as those of the ACLU and Russ Feingold. Now, he sounds like John Yoo and Dick Cheney.
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| June 4 |
- Events next week — NYC and D.C.
- Conferences and speeches examining the general election and post-Bush world now that the primary war is concluding.
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| June 6 |
- NYT front page reports on McCain’s reversal on spying, executive power
- McCain’s behavior on these vital issues completely negates the two attributes the media uses to define him — his “moderate” ideology and principled independence.
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| June 7 |
- David Broder: Embodiment of Beltway values
- The press corps Dean who led the attempt to drive Bill Clinton from office dismisses the crimes of the Bush years as mere “policy disputes”
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| June 9 |
- Comcast censors criticisms of itself and Rep. Carney
- The telecom and cable operator rejects an ad, run by numerous other stations and newspapers, bringing to light its lawbreaking and the actions of a congressman who receives substantial donations from Comcast.
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| June 10 |
- NYT circulates fear-mongering claims on FISA debate
- The White House and Congress prepare to tell Americans: If you want to stay safe, you must give the president the power to spy on you without warrants, and immunize telecoms from the consequences of lawbreaking.
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| June 11 |
- John McCain then and now
- “On the transcendent issues, on the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.”
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| June 12 |
- Longtime reporter: “Bloggers have taught me a lesson” about dependency on sources
- “The problem with all that, I’ve come to realize, is that I got too close to the people I covered.”
- Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act
- “Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom’s first principles. Chief among these are freedom from arbitrary and unlawful restraint.”
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| June 13 |
- Conservatism vs. authoritarianism: The British vs. the U.S. right
- While British conservatives oppose mild increases in government detention and surveillance powers, American “conservatives” support endless expansion of those powers.
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| June 14 |
- Various items
- Right-wing figures call for the president to ignore the Supreme Court and for the shooting deaths of dissidents. Journalists demand that their subjects be treated respectfully. Democratic capitulation on FISA is imminent.
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| June 15 |
- British debate highlights the cravenness and complicity of congressional Democratic “leaders”
- While British politicians from all parties risk their political future to protect basic civil liberties, the Democrats are set, yet again, to endorse the most radical aspects of the Bush agenda.
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| June 16 |
- The rantings of hateful leftists and Arab paranoids
- Back in 2003, the administration scornfully attacked anyone who suggested that the U.S. would seek to establish permanent military bases in Iraq.
- Newt Gingrich, supreme fear-monger
- With one radical policy after the next, the former GOP speaker warns that we will “lose a city” unless we give up our core constitutional liberties.
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| June 17 |
- John Yoo’s ongoing falsehoods in service of limitless government power
- Bush’s war crimes theorist claims that the Supreme Court protected “Al Qaeda terrorists” who were “captured fighting against the U.S.” Both claims are false.
- The company we keep
- House Democratic leaders are working hard to enact legislation this week to replicate the eavesdropping policies of Russia and Zimbabwe.
- Targeting Steny Hoyer for his contempt for the rule of law
- Efforts are under way to disrupt the plans of the House Democratic leadership to give the president warrantless eavesdropping powers and the telecom industry full-fledged amnesty.
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| June 18 |
- Comcast’s efforts to protect members of Congress who, in turn, protect Comcast
- Two weeks ago, Comcast rejected a political ad as defamatory because it stated that telecoms “broke the law.” Today, the NYT wrote that telecoms “broke the law by helping Mr. Bush carry out his warrantless wiretapping operation.”
- Campaign against warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty is expanding
- Three targets are chosen who are key enablers of the corrupt bill Congress is attempting to pass.
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| June 19 |
- Obama, telecoms and the Beltway system
- Why is the Democratic nominee intervening in a Democratic primary to support one of the worst pro-war, Bush-enabling Blue Dogs against a highly credible, progressive challenger?
- George Bush’s latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress
- Congress is going to decree that the president has the power to order private citizens to break the law, as well as to spy on our telephone calls and e-mails with no warrants.
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| June 20 |
- What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by “bipartisanship”
- Even the GOP, the media establishment and many Democrats themselves are openly mocking the claims by Pelosi and Hoyer that they “negotiated” a “bipartisan compromise.”
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| June 21 |
- Obama’s support for the FISA “compromise”
- There are many important lessons from yesterday’s announcement that he now supports a warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty bill
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| June 22 |
- Time magazine uncritically prints Nancy Pelosi’s “justifications” for the FISA “compromise”
- The congressional Democratic leadership explains that sacrificing the Fourth Amendment and the rule of law is necessary to win some more swing seats.
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| June 23 |
- The New Republic syndrome
- A mentality that repeatedly admitted wrongdoing, reversed itself and spawned great destruction nonetheless continues to dominate the Democratic Party.
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| June 24 |
- Hoyer hails FISA bill as “a significant victory for the Democratic Party”
- The House majority leader argues that giving the GOP what it wanted on eavesdropping removed it as an election issue. That’s the same mentality that led Democrats to authorize the war in 2002.
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| June 25 |
- Chris Dodd’s speech and a glimmer of hope for stopping the FISA bill
- The Connecticut senator’s passionate speech in defense of the rule of law and surveillance safeguards signals some slowly growing opposition to the FISA bill.
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| June 26 |
- Keith Olbermann: Then and now
- In January, the MSNBC star denounced telecom immunity as “textbook fascism” designed to “immunize corporate criminals.” Wednesday night, he heaped praise on Obama for supporting it.
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| June 27 |
- Keith Olbermann’s reply and Obama’s secret plan to protect the rule of law
- The MSNBC star denies he was justifying Obama’s support for the FISA bill; in the course of denying it, he proceeds to do exactly that.
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| June 29 |
- The baseless, and failed, “move to the center” cliche
- Why do Democrats continue to follow the same strategic advice that has produced one failure after the next?
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