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Yikes
This has political catastrophe written all over it:

President Bush said Thursday the government is "not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans" with a reported program to create a massive database of U.S. phone calls.

I know that this is simply a pen-register, which has been upheld by the Supreme Court—but it's not going to sound good to the average American.

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Blood for Oil!
Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself.

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Brilliant
Reproduced in full (don't sue me, James), from a segment on James Taranto's Best of the Web Today:

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is having trouble finding tenants for the Freedom Tower, the 1,776-foot building planned for the World Trade Center site, The Wall Street Journal reports. "Private businesses scoffed at locating in a tall, high-profile building on the site of two terrorist attacks," the Journal reports, and the Port Authority itself is "opting instead for less-visible buildings on the Ground Zero site."

As a result, the tower is "likely to be a government citadel housing federal law-enforcement groups among other government agencies--possibly enhancing its profile as a terrorist target."

Here's a crazy thought: Why not make a floor or two near the top into a supermax prison, and use it to house Zacarias Moussaoui and other convicted terrorists?"