City buses across America now covertly recording passengers’ conversations

Eric Boehlert points out in Salon a curious thing: Recent polling data, in outlets from Fox News to the Washington Post, shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans back the position of Michael Schiavo[more...]

So, a senator has decided to close his Capitol Hill office completely, citing “top secret” information of an imminent threat to the Hill from terrorists. I almost jumped the gun and assumed that he was a[more...]

Oh, boy. It just keeps hitting the fan these days, doesn’t it? I mean, usually my blog would be wall-to-wall complaints and diatribes about the right wing; lately I haven’t found it necessary since[more...]