] The United States Natural Law Party is a United States
] political party affiliated with the international Natural
] Law Party. It is closely associated with Maharishi
] Mahesh Yogi, leader of Transcendental Meditation, a
] belief which holds the view that natural law is the
] supreme organizing priniciple that governs the universe.
] Adherents believe that all political problems can be
] solved through meditation.

Apparently my political views score most closely to that of the natural law party. The natural law party sounds like a bunch of lunatic spiritualists to me. Talk about coming at a solution from a different angle...

United States Natural Law Party - Wikipedia

] Just in time for today's New Hampshire primary, here's a
] candidate scorecard. It rates members of Congress on how they voted
] on technology-related legislation and awarded them a score
] of 0 to 100.

This is interesting, but also lacking. There is hole here that needs to be filled.

[Politech] Where Democratic presidential candidates stand on tech

Collection of Dean outburst remixes...

Dean Goes Nuts

] Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary
] Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a
] year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically
] passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The
] Globe.
]
] From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003,
] members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer
] glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic
] communications without a password. Trolling through
] hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points
] and accounts of private meetings discussing which
] judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what
] tactics.

Boston.com / News / Nation / Infiltration of files seen as extensive

] What is fascinating is that before filing the defence
] brief, the prosecutor, that is the general counsel's
] office at the US Defence Department, approved it. As they
] are employees of the military, the department would have
] had to approve the press conference held on Wednesday by
] Mori and the others.

The DOD is trying to be a nice guy now that it is about a month or two from getting its ass handed to it in the Supreme Court.

A legal black hole in Cuba threatens to suck in some precious rights - www.smh.com.au

] The 2004 Libertarian Party National Convention will take
] place at the beautiful Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel in
] downtown Atlanta, Georgia, over Memorial Day weekend, May
] 27-31. The room rate at this Marriott is only $99/night
] for single or double occupancy (less than for past
] conventions).

This could be fun...

Libertarian Party: 2004 National Convention

] I don't believe the Internet is inherently democratic. To
] me, most people and organizations are fundamentally
] anti-democratic by nature. Many of those in power and
] those clamoring for power are self-centered actors. They
] operate within the miracle we call representative
] democracy. Most accept the idea that democracy is good,
] but these actors do little to ensure its strength.

This is a strong vision for improving the state of internet enabled democracy in the next few years.

Democratic Evolution or Virtual Civil War - WSIS Speech by Steven Clift - Publicus.Net

flynn23 wrote:
] Does anyone have the voting record for this bill? I've looked
] on Thomas, but can't seem to find it. Googling also has
] revealed nothing.

The house voting record is the main URL linked from this meme. The Senate did a voice vote, so there is no record.

This page claims Senate support was unanimous:
http://roberts.senate.gov/11-21b-2003.htm

Here are the critical comments about the law that were entered into the record in the house (more on this site if you click on the double arrows at the top of the page):
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/h112203.html

Here is the complete Thomas timeline for this thing:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR02417:@@@X

Voting Record for HR 2417 RE: Too Much Power

Alleged enemy combatants, after all, don't tend to be an organized constituency of campaign donors who can garner congressional attention.

This is quite an essay. The Washington Post is saying that we have a Congress that is completely ignoring it's responsibilities to the most critical Consititutional matters of our time, both because they are afraid of the Administration, and because they don't care: Constitutional issues are not important to the various special interests and lobby groups that make up their electoral support structure.

Congress doesn't care...

"No amount of cooperation in the so-called War on Terror will prevent the USA, egged on by the Israeli and Indian lobbies in Washington, from its goal of forcing Pakistan to roll back its nuclear programme. The Libyan and Iranian examples should leave no one fooled. If anyone thinks that surrendering national sovereignty in the attempt to curry favour with the USA will even postpone the day of decision, they are mistaken. Indeed, it hastens it. Pakistan therefore must follow its own national interest, and refuse to accept any pressure. In that lies the only chance of safety."

Proof of American Power