A special message from Nancy Pelosi.

Is having the right to vote more important than having a million dollars? Is it more important than having a free college education? Is it more important than having a free iPod Touch?

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

Top 87 bad predictions about the future.

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.

If the decline or rise of fascism and authoritarianism in your system of government depends on electing the right or wrong politicians, your system of government is already fucked even before the wrong politicians take power.

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.

Kossacks on Ron Paul’s American Freedom Agenda Act.

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.

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.

We’re on our way into another century of fascism and holocaust and death worship, but soon we may finally destroy ourselves.

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

When does Bush get hanged for his?

From Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man without a Country: “True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. There are real-life situations so hopeless that no relief is imaginable.”

Tony Snow mixes up his parts of speech.