Politics – Page 40

Vermont: Leading the World in Sanity

April 21, 2007 John Bush, cheney, Impeachment, Iraq, Vermont, Vermont House, Vermont Senate

Yes, it would seem that the good people of Vermont probably have the most intelligence. They’ve seen through the bull shit and their state senate voted 16-9 without debate to impeach Bush and Cheney.

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Destroying Freedom

April 20, 2007May 24, 2007 John Civil Liberties, Domestic Spying, FBI, George Christian, Illegal Spying, justice department, Library Connection, PATRIOT Act

George Christian, executive director of Library Connection, a consortium of 27 libraries in the Hartford, Conn., area, has, since 2005, been fighting a National Security letter request from the FBI for subscription information on patrons of the library system. Because of the way the PATRIOT Act is written, he was only recently, through a court order, un-gagged to be able to testify to Congress about the experience.

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News Roundup-Week Ending April 15, 2007

April 20, 2007September 24, 2009 John BC, Bush, Charles Simonyi, Comic Strip, Disney, Gay Marriage, Johnny Hart, justice department, Microsoft Word, space, Tourism, Voter Fraud, Wizard of ID

This is a round of general news worth noting for the weekend April 15, 2007

General Legislature Politics

Jeb Bush WILL Me Memorialized

April 12, 2007 John College of Education, Jeb Bush, One Florida, Rep David Rivera, USF

Two weeks ago, the University of Florida voted to deny Jeb Bush an honorary degree. By a 38-28 vote, the faculty Senate rejected the former governor’s nomination, citing concerns about some of Bush’s educations initiatives, including his dismantling of affirmative action programs in the state.

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Watch List Datamart

April 9, 2007April 9, 2007 John Authoritarianism, Database, facism, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Terrorist, Watch List

The master list the federal government keeps of known and suspected terrorists, from which other government agencies derive their own watch lists, already hundreds of thousands of names large, is growing out of control, filling with “fragmentary,” “inconsistent” and “sometimes just flat-out wrong” information, a top counterterrorism official said.