The Washington Post is out with a new article today on the NSA internet snooping: A classified NSA slide obtained by The Washington Post and published here for the first time lists “Two Types of Collection.” One is PRISM, the NSA program that collects information from technology companies, which was first revealed in reports by […]

A case that has been five years in the making got a big break yesterday. In 2008, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed lawsuit against the NSA’s massive spying. Since then the government has been claiming “state secrets” in trying to get the case thrown out, but now that has changed. Here’s the press release in […]

Another blow to Darrell Issa’s witch hunt into the I.R.S. “targetting conservatives” has been dealt: In 2010, a tiny Palestinian-rights group called Minnesota Break the Bonds applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status. Two years and a lot of prodding later, the I.R.S. sent the group’s leaders a series of questions and requests […]

Privatize, privatize, privatize. The has been a a cornerstone of Republican policy that has spanned decades. But what does Edward Snowden say about privatizing? The simple fact that a government contractor could access such vital information as Snowden did, has sent shockwaves around the world. Snowden didn’t happen along the information he has leaked. He […]

Glenn Greenwald is out with another piece about the NSA: The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents indicate that under the program, launched in […]

Yesterday news broke that the IRS had also been targetting progressive groups, as well as others: George’s report criticized the IRS for using “inappropriate criteria” to identify tea party and other conservative groups. It did not mention more liberal organizations, but in response to questions from lawmakers at congressional hearings, George said he had recently […]

Yesterday the Texas state Senate took up what would have been the harshest anti-abortion legislation in the country. Luckily Democratic State Senator, Wendy Davis, wasn’t going to stand for it and stages a 12+ hour filibuster. Throughout the duration of the filibuster, there were some very stressful times, where state Republicans failed to shut it […]

Anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time knows that I am a huge advocate of campaign finance reform. Our democracy has been destroyed by the current system of “flood them with money” to the point that we no longer have a democracy, but rather an auction. Now Gallup is out with […]

James O’Keefe, the undercover video hero of the right, is at it again. Today he has released a new video showing people giving out “Obama” phones to people who say they will sell them for drugs and other items: Undercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two corporate distributors of free cell […]

The Supreme Court has made a huge ruling today: The Supreme Court says states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order […]