Daily Archives: May 11th, 2006 «

 

The ACLU has a database of its own – and more NSA news

Posted by: ST on May 11, 2006 at 9:47 pm » 14 Comments

Jay at Stop The ACLU has done some digging and lo and behold, the same institution who slammed the admin for the latest NSA ‘scandal’ – regarding datamining of ‘millions of phone calls’ – has (or at one point had) a data collection of its own. From the SF Chronicle, Dec. 2004: The American Civil [...]

 

Snow gears up for first official press gaggle, slams press

Posted by: ST on May 11, 2006 at 3:39 pm » 26 Comments

Go Tony Go WASHINGTON – New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is starting off in a combative mode against the press by issuing detailed rebuttals to what he considers unfair coverage of Bush. “The New York Times continues to ignore America’s economic progress” blared the headline of an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday by [...]

 

Favorite columnists of rightie bloggers

Posted by: ST on May 11, 2006 at 11:15 am » 2 Comments

John Hawkins has taken a poll of right wing bloggers, including yours truly, to find out who their favorite conservative columnists are. The results can be read here. My number one pick was Thomas Sowell (check out his columns here), who came in third place in John’s poll.

 

While Republicans struggle to get on track, Dems have problems of their own

Posted by: ST on May 11, 2006 at 10:05 am » 8 Comments

Republicans are in disarray, but the Democrats are having problems of their own, too. And once again, they center around how DNC Chairman Howard Dean is spending party money: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and the leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have clashed angrily in recent days in a dispute about how [...]

 

The latest non-scandal scandal news involving the NSA

Posted by: ST on May 11, 2006 at 9:30 am » 86 Comments

Yet one more in a long line of hyped stories about the NSA and datamining. The USA Today breathlessly reports, starting off with an eye-catching headline: NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided [...]