Teh awesome!!!
Glenn Greenwald’s been all over this one for a while, this was always going to happen. In a strange way, I can see the “necessity” of the telecoms cooperating with the administration in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when everyone remained jumpy, and rightfully so. But after a short while, all of this should […]

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By now you’ve probably seen the video of the University of Florida student who was tasered after asking John Kerry some questions at an event. In one respect I’m sort of torn on this; Andrew Meyer, the student, was obviously grandstanding. “He’s an idiot,” comes one stray comment from the crowd as the cops are […]

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Glenn Greenwald catches Jonah Goldberg inadvertently speaking the truth:
That, of course, is the defining mentality of the Authoritarian Mind, captured in its purest essence by Jonah. Our Leaders are Good and want to protect us. Therefore, we must accept — and even be grateful — when they prevent us from knowing what they are doing. The […]

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Tinfoil hat time:
Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their patients, the American Medical Association says
Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, the nation’s largest doctors group said in […]

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One of my newest bookmarks is the Lew Rockwell blog, Rockwell being founder and president of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala., a libertarian think tank, and vice president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, Calif. He is “an opponent of the central state, its wars and its socialism.” And in one respect […]

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I’m in the office five minutes and the phone rings, a businessman buddy on the way to a meeting where he will try to pry venture capital away from its rightful owners so that it might instead be invested in his tech firm. But what he wants to talk about is cameras in the city of […]

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