An Independence Day hangover
July 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Maziarz in Editor's Desk, PoliticsSome thoughts the Monday after America’s 232nd birthday celebration:
• A whole lot of reasons to be unpatriotic.
• One more: our use of extraordinary rendition.
• More atrocities that would have pissed off the Founding Fathers enough to start another revolution.
• Even Patrick Buchanan is miffed.
• Under proposed Justice Department rules, the FBI would no longer have to have any reason to start investigating a terrorism suspect. Your name or ethnic heritage would be enough.
• This is as Congress readies to gut the Fourth Amendment this week.
• But the government can always take refuge in beating hippies. At least the ACLU still cares.
• Texas cops want your blood.
• President Bush tours the country to survey the damage caused by his presidency:
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