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Brave new world of government surveillance
There's a lot we don't know about the secret court order giving the federal government access on an "ongoing daily basis" to millions of telephone records, and that's a large part of the problem. But we know enough from a report in Britain's Guardian...Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dianne Feinstein, National Security Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Reactions to NSA surveillance: from outrage to cheerleading
This week's riveting scoops in the Guardian and the Washington Post about the data-grabbing driftnet the National Security Agency has cast over the phone networks and the Internet drew hostile fire from four of the country's five largest newspapers, and a...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, White House, Computer Networking and Internet
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It's A Gray Area: It's time to take back America's moral high ground
President Obama has recently renewed his plans to try to close our military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, and has also promulgated new guidelines for our government's use of drones to assassinate people in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Orange County Superior Court, Chicago Housing Authority, Politics
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Is Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother'?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The...
Tags: Facebook, Dianne Feinstein, Interior Policy, Heart Attack, Microsoft Corporation
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House vote opens immigration divide
WASHINGTON — The partisan divide over immigration was exposed Thursday as House Republicans voted to stop funding the Obama administration program that has halted deportation of young immigrants who are in high school or college or have served in...
Tags: Immigration, International Law, Steve King, Jay Carney, Interior Policy
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The real IRS scandal
Should you need a license from the government to exercise free speech? The real scandal at the Internal Revenue Service should be seen not as a left-versus-right issue but instead as infringement on the 1st Amendment. The people targeted were political...
Tags: Discrimination, IBM, Taxation, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance
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Is Obama willing to fight for right terror policy?
In his recent speech on terrorism and national security, President Barack Obama performed superbly as explainer in chief, a role in which he often hasn't succeeded. It may not matter much. However belatedly, Obama offered a cogent policy rationale for...Tags: U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda, Colin Powell, U.S. Congress
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Mail Call - May 30
“This thank you goes out to the gentleman that was behind my fianceé ... last Wednesday night around 10:30 p.m. She put the groceries on the conveyor and after ringing the items up she was short $45. Starting to put back items, this good-hearted...Tags: Federal Reserve, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), White House
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Obama cleans up Bush's national-security mess
In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration made clear to the world that it had the Islamic Republic of Iran in its sights. Condoleezza Rice, who was then President George W. Bush's national security adviser, issued this warning in...Tags: War in Afghanistan (2001-present), International Military Interventions, Afghanistan, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Voice of the People, Jun. 08
Charles Yates Age: 65 Residence: Chicago Been writing letters since: The late 1990s. "If it piques my interest or ticks me off, I'll write about it," he said. Life story in 100 words or less: Grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Enlisted in the Army after high...Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, George H.W. Bush, Al-Qaeda, Iraq, Chicago Transit Authority
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Louisville hotel was great enough for Gatsby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As readers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and fans of Baz Luhrmann's popular film adaptation know, the wedding of Daisy Fay, a Louisville socialite, and Tom Buchanan, a Chicago millionaire, took place in a hotel...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Al Capone
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Proposed press shield has holes
In response to the acknowledged abuses of his own Justice Department, President Barack Obama has urged Sen. Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, to reintroduce legislation for a "journalist shield law." And in typical Washington fashion, the proposed...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Journalism, Chuck Schumer
Jun 7, 2013
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Jun 7, 2013
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Jun 7, 2013
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Jun 7, 2013
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Jun 6, 2013
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May 29, 2013
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Jun 3, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 29, 2013
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May 29, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Jun 8, 2013
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Jun 4, 2013
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Jun 6, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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