Another Example Of Domestic Surveillance Courtesy Of Obama

The Article: U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls by Charlie Savage in The New York Times.

The Text: The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.

The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over “on an ongoing daily basis” to the National Security Agency all call logs “between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.”

The order does not apply to the content of the communications.

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Marijuana: One Drug, Two Stories

Despite the fact that whites and blacks use pot at similar rates, blacks are more than three times as likely to be arrested for it than their white counterparts.

The Best Anti-Gay Marriage Analogy Out There

Perhaps comparing marriage to a sandwich isn’t the most apt metaphor, but the principle is what’s most important.

O’Reilly On College Students: They Don’t Know Anything

The Article: Bill O’Reilly pans college GOP report by Katie Glueck in Politico.

The Text: ox News host Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday night got into a tussle with two spokeswomen for a college GOP report that outlines why Republicans lost the youth vote in November, asking why the party should “care about a bunch of kids who don’t know anything.”
“That sounds pretty immature, Ms. Smith,” O’Reilly told Alex Smith, the chair of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC), after asking why young people forgave President Barack Obama for the tough economy. “It doesn’t sound like a very objective analytical opinion, for want of a better word. So why should I care about this study, or why should the Republican Party care about a bunch of kids who don’t know anything, and they like the guy just because he’s flashy?…What message does that send to the GOP?”

“Well, to be quite frank, Bill, if the Republican Party really ignores younger voters, or continues to do so, we risk losing every national election in the future,” Smith retorted.

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Ron Paul On The NSA’s Actions: “It’s Destroying Our Constitution”

As more details emerge on the NSA’s surveillance program, a debate has taken center stage: would it be possible for any president, regardless of their ideological background or ambitions, to reverse the course of the national security industrial complex? Ron Paul says yes.