TalkLeft: "The Office of Legislative Affairs for the Justice Department wrote this letter (pdf) Thursday to leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in an attempt to justify the President's orders directing the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance in the wake of 9/11."
TalkLeft: "Patriot Act extended for one month only."
Western Democrat: "Even though Tom Tancredo of Colorado is the big cheerleader on conservative immigration policy, the West is not a hotbed of anti-immigrant sentiment. The make-up of Tancredo's Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus is mostly Southern congressmen. When you look at a recent Survey USA poll on how people feel about immigrants, you see why those Southern congressman want to join that kind of caucus."
Today's Daily Kos has a primer on evolution.
Captains Quarters: "Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle writes an op-ed in today's Washington Post (which the Post covers as a news item on page A04, just in case its readers miss it) claiming that the declaration of war granted to Bush after 9/11 specifically limited his war powers. It's a must-read, if only to demonstrate that either the Democrats have to be the worst historical revisionists still received by polite society or have been truly clueless about the nature of the war on Islamofascist terror since its start."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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