alexduvall18

This is kind of disgusting Evan. You've cherry-picked four words to try and shoehorn an ongoing national tragedy into some BS political outrage for RW gun fetishists. I hope the traffic is worth your self respect and integrity.

Smiley and West have never forgiven Obama for skipping their State of the Black Union event in 2008, while Hillary attended. Smiley's been griping ever since.

This wouldn't be relevant even if they'd voted against it. It's US law they're citing in their current role is US SoS and US SoD, not Senator.

<em>Radel belongs to a growing tribe of libertarian-leaning Republicans that represent one pole of the intra-party debate, arguing against military intervention in all cases unless U.S. national security is directly at risk.</em> Stop being so naive. Even "libertarian" hero Ron Paul… Read More

Because inordinate &amp; hyperbolic 1984 analogies are right up there with breaching Godwin&#39;s Law when it comes to rationally covering the news.

<i>"is scooping up pretty much all of our phone calls"</i> Exaggerate much? Call metadata from the Verizon subsidiary that provides office telecommunications services to businesses, not the consumer subsidiary, is not "all of our phone calls."

Quiz: Drudge Report or BuzzFeed? ^

Roll Call (May 26, 2011) House Vote 376 - <i>To Extend Provisions of the Patriot Act</i> <i>Yay</i> - <b>Republicans:</b> 196, <b>Democrats:</b> 54 <i>Nay</i> - <b>Republicans:</b> 31, <b>Democrats:</b> 122

More like welcome to 2001. According to the NYT write-up on this, trawling up massive call metadata has become a staple of our intelligence community since the Patriot Act, the only difference being they used to not bother getting court orders in the previous admin.

Good.