A federal judge on Wednesday said the George W. Bush administration illegally eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of two American lawyers who represented a now-defunct Saudi charity.
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Court Says Bush Illegally Wiretapped Two Americans | Threat Level | Wired.com
Boom!
Where were the fiscal conservatives before Obama?
Where were you just a couple years ago, when Bush II added $5.1 trillion to the federal debt over his two terms?
Or when Reagan and Bush I more than tripled the national debt, adding over $3 trillion during the 80s and early 90s?
In 1981, the federal debt was around $994 billion. When Bush II left office it was over $10.7 trillion!
If you do the math, that means over $9.7 trillion was added to our debt between 1982 and 2008. Three Republican presidents were responsible for over 85% of that total. And NOW they want you to believe them? Too funny.
Sources: US Public Debt and Debt by Presidential Term
What does the health care bill mean to me? (washingtonpost.com) 
Simple, effective calculator you can use to determine how the health care bill will affect you.
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In the last ten years, the U.S. and Israel collectively have bombed at least six Muslim countries (including Gaza). Despite that, 40% of Americans want to attack yet another one [ed. note: Iran], and 1/3 want to invade. Those are the same people who, if there is another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, will be walking around, eyebrows earnestly raised, innocent, self-righteous and confused, and asking: “why do they hate us??” And their friends and neighbors and leaders will assure them: “they hate us for our freedoms.
—David Rohde on the “why do they hate us?” question - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
For those of you worried about Ken Lewis’ financial well-being since his announcement on Wednesday night that he was stepping down as Bank of America’s CEO, rest easy: he’s set to walk away with a $53 million pension plan. Fortune reports that this money will come from a pension plan, frozen years ago, that awarded certain top executives with extra benefits.
That $53 million isn’t all Lewis will be walking away with — in addition to retirement benefits, there are millions in accumulated stock and other compensation. As the Fortune piece notes, assessing Lewis’ “walking away pay is an inexact science.” A Reuters piece puts Lewis’ total at $125 million, and adds that he may be facing a “reckoning with the U.S. government’s pay czar [Kenneth Feinberg].”
