Retroactive immunity for the telecoms, and the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence are empowered “to authorize warrantless surveillance of foreign parties whose communications pass through U.S. switches, even when they are communicating with Americans.” Is anybody surprised? No? Right.

Dianne Feinstein on why Mukasey won’t say whether waterboarding is torture.

Over 70 students at Morton West High School in Berwyn, IL participated in a sit-in against the Iraq War on All Saint’s Day, Thursday, November 1st. They were suspended, expelled and even face criminal charges for participating.

Andrew Meyer, arrested and publicly tortured by the police for disturbing the torpid peace of a Kerry Q&A session, is reduced to an absurd apology and an idiotic catchphrase.

The city of Beech Grove is supposedly getting city-wide wireless internet service by the end of this year. How much it will cost, how fast it will be, what kind of security it will use —- the answers to all these questions remain closely guarded secrets. What we do know, though, is that the police and fire departments will get their own special wifi network for, among other uses, a city-wide network of surveillance cameras.

Hillary Clinton wants us to know that she is opposed to letting President Bush take any military action against Iran without full Congressional approval. What difference does it make?

The American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 is intended to restore the Constitution’s checks and balances and protections against government abuses as envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

Scott Pelley interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes.

The violence of the powerful is right. The violence of the powerless is wrong.

If you’re not already reading Arthur Silber’s blog Once Upon a Time…, you ought to start.

Bush: “I’m like a lot of Americans that say, ‘Well, if [the fake WMD intelligence] wasn’t right in Iraq, how do you know it’s right in Iran.’” Bush is always good for a chuckle.

On Wednesday, Rice and the public relations chief for the Bush administration, Karen Hughes, held a “Private Sector Summit on Public Diplomacy.” Sponsored by the State Department and the Public Relations Coalition, the summit was held with 150 top public relations professionals and State Department officials “to identify clear action steps the private sector can take to support U.S. public diplomacy.”

Gonzales and Specter debate Constitutional right of habeas corpus. I think Gonzales is trying to say the Constitution prohibits suspending the right of habeas corpus for all people but doesn’t prohibit suspending it for a subset of all people. Interpret the Constitution to minimize liberty. Evil.

Nancy Boyda (D-KS) responds to serious debate about escalation in Iraq with snark.

When does Bush get hanged for his?