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A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.

[From Mother Jones]
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office [...]

[From Media Mouse]

The Illinois State Senate passed a resolution last week calling for an end to the United States’ war in Afghanistan. It calls on the government–including former Illinois State Senate member Barack Obama–to remove troops from the country on an “appropriately expedited timeline” and to engage nations in the Middle East to develop a [...]

From: CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, two sources told CNN on Tuesday.
Obama plans to announce his nominee at 10:15 a.m. ET Tuesday, sources told CNN.
Sotomayor, a 54-year-old judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was named a district [...]

[From DesMoinesRegister.com ]
BY WILLIAM PETROSKI

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An FBI informant and an undercover Minnesota sheriff’s deputy spied on political activists in Iowa City last year before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Confidential FBI documents obtained by The Des Moines Register show an FBI informant was planted among a group described as [...]

[From Jonathan Lundell at Pragmatos ]
Self-described election junkie Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight) has a piece in the NY TImes today bemoaning the failure of the US electoral system to produce competitive elections except as a rare exception.
Sadly, his solution is pretty lame:
The good news for fans of competitive elections is that some of these factors could [...]

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