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The EFF is promoting a campaign to keep Congress from agreeing to grant the Bush Administration's request to give phone companies immunity for spying without a warrant.

Right around noon today, if all goes as planned, a spacecraft called Messenger will swoop past the planet Mercury and begin two days of unprecedented picture-taking and data-collecting.

It's an emotional call for An Accounting from those in power, and though I think it aims at the wrong target (the deplorable Mr. Yoo), it is extremely well written.