Seriously, this is just getting ridiculously old, not to mention just plain sad. Jack Bauer is a fictional character on a fictional sho...

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The Oversight Committee has been digging into the email scandal, and so far they’ve uncovered… There has been extensive destru...

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No surprise here, but he says they’re absolutely unfair. From the NY Times: “I think Robert Jackson, who’s the architec...

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Big blow to the Bush administration. The important distinction here is that they can’t hold them on US soil. I’m sure this guy co...

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This is definitely good news. From Wash Post: The new rules would require companies to tell customers 45 days before terms of a credit card contract are changed, compared with 15 days now. And the rules ...

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Rep. James McDermott lost another round in the legal battle over his leaking an illegally obtained tape of GOP leaders 10 years ago. In a 5...

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Yet another sign that we need some new ideas about how to address the issue of drugs in America. From the AP: (AP) Cocaine prices in the Un...

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We kidnap them, “interrogate” them and then find out they did nothing wrong. But then their countries don’t want them anymore. From the Was...

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I think it’s quite telling about the human condition that the one person who will most likely destroy thousands of lives and careers in ...

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Found this Wikipedia entry on reddit… On January 16, 2002, Peter Odighizuwa, 43, of Nigeria, a student at Appalachian School of Law, arrived...

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This is really quite astonishing, but the cops aren’t making any apologies. From Pro Liberate: Last week, 13-year-old Brooklyn middle school student Chelsea Fraser was arrested a...

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