[Greenwald] nails it today about the NSA thing. The Administration asserts that its bizarre theories of the imperial Presidency are really constitutional, are really in keeping with the role the founders laid out for the different branches. They say that the authorization to use military force against terrorism included giving the President authority to spy on Americans — but they couldn’t go get that specific repeal of FISA enacted by a Republican Congress, because Congress might not agree!

My full blog entry

Greenwald's

PS: My subdomain politics.godblessthefreaks.org is now working, so i can save political junkie readers from reading the other mundane details of my life.

Time to leave the Beltway Insiders in the Beltway, move the nation’s capital to Topeka, and start over again with other parties.

Full post: Outsiders and Insiders

Original Glenn Greenwald post: Investigations are so very rude and distasteful.

UPDATE: Sorry that I've now managed to orphan my old post's slug. I have a lot to learn about Blogger -- or they could just support standard trackbacks and make life easier.

Ceci n'est pas un blog

This is not my blog. My blog is at http://godblessthefreaks.org/philip. But apparently you have to set up a blog to create an account here, so here i am.

Politics category (i need to make this something easier, like politics.godblessthefreaks.org)