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Date: March 4th, 2009

Senator Evan Bayh: Obama should veto this spending bill.

4 March, 2009 (23:12) | Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

The Honorable Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN): This week, the United States Senate will vote on a spending package to fund the federal government for the remainder of this fiscal year. The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 is a sprawling, $410 billion compilation of nine spending measures that lacks the slightest hint of austerity from the [...]

Big Brother for real: tracking you with GPS, sans warrant

4 March, 2009 (23:09) | Human Interest, Law, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

With the subject coming up about taxing people based on the mileage they drive as opposed to the gas they buy and the casual dismissal of the privacy concerns with the suggestion the government track us all via GPS, I thought it prudent to point out this story, titled, “Police use of warrantless GPS tracking [...]