The Allen Almanac

Hopefully, we’ll be telling our grandkids about this one.

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via TPM:

You’ve probably already seen some of the news about the Bush White House engaging in a seemingly unprecedented spree of firings of US Attorneys across the coutry. Conveniently, they’re being replaced without senate approval under a provision of the Patriot Act. We’re digging into now and we’re finding a bunch. More soon.
– Josh Marshall

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The NY Daily News reports:

President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned.

The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a “signing statement” that declared his right to open people’s […]

From the Guardian’s blog, Comment is Free:

That the US tortures, routinely and systematically, while prosecuting its “war on terror” can no longer be seriously disputed. The Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (DAA), a coalition of academics and human-rights groups, has documented the abuse or killing of 460 inmates of US military prisons in Afghanistan, […]

Keep an eye out for your’s truly and the family.

Jews on First has a follow-up on the on the New Jersey teacher who got caught on tape proselytizing in class and then lied about it. The student is being harassed by the town while the teacher has gotten no punishment, although the superintendent did call him a “wonderful teacher”. Apparently no action […]

Go read this great article on Slate

We have become such “good Americans” that we no longer have the moral imagination to picture what it might be like to be in a bureaucratic category that voids our human rights, be it “enemy combatant” or “illegal immigrant.” Thus, in the week before the election, hardly a […]

The latest entry in the Republican’s 289 part series “Destroying Your Freedoms to Protect Them” is Newt Gingrich’s idea that we may need to put some limits on free speech, and he said this at a freedom of speech dinner. Maybe he was joking. He has to be, right?

Former Speaker of the House […]

I’m a day late with this story, but it reminded me of something that happened when I was a student. A History teacher named David Paszkiewicz in New Jersey (who is also a Baptist minister) got caught proselytizing Christian fundamentalism to his students in class.

Instead of teaching them History, he was teaching […]

This time from UCLA. A student was using the computer lab but failed to produce his ID during a random check. The Community Service Officers (whatever that is) asked him to leave but he didn’t so they called in the police. While they were gone to get the police he began making […]