Links

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• Excellent Penn & Teller video on the Patriot Act: Length: 16:42; Rating: NSFW.
• Republican Pundit and former presidential advisor David Gergen puts this administration in context.

  This administration has engaged in secrecy at a level we have not seen in over 30 years. Unfortunately, I have to bring up the name of Richard Nixon, because we haven't seen it since the days of Nixon. And now what they're doing -- and they're using the war on terror to justify -- is they're starting to target journalists who try to pierce the veil of secrecy and find things and put them in the newspapers.

• The military allows soldiers in Iraq to access O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and G. Gordon Liddy on the Web. But they don't allow access to Air America Radio, Wonkette, or Franken, because they're "political".