Whether or not you believe that American participation in the war in Libya is a good idea, now is a good time to call your U.S. senators and U.S. Representative through the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, and tell them what you’d like them to do. Votes on the war authorization legislation could happen in both houses of Congress as soon as tomorrow.

On Thursday, May 6, Senators Joseph Lieberman and Scott Brown introduced S. 3327, the “Terrorist Expatriation Act.” Where you read “Terrorist” in the title, insert “American.” The bill (read full text here) provides that any American who is engaged with terrorist activity, supports a terrorist organization, or is engaged in activity against any country that [...]

In the fall of 2009, five American citizens were arrested in Lackawanna, New York on terrorism charges. The only weapon found in these men’s possession was a rifle in one of their homes. No plot for attacks of any sort by the men was uncovered, either before the arrests or afterward. Eventually, they were convicted [...]

The economic benefit of Joe Lieberman’s legislation is that the suffering financial elites of America will be able to save a little cash when they’re buying their cashmere sweaters and camel hair coats.

S.Amdt. 2669 to H.R. 2847 may be promoted as a measure to improve the security of our nation, but in fact it constitutes an attack against the very definition of what makes the United States of America a nation. If measures such as this legislation succeed, there will be nothing meaningful left of the USA to keep secure.

Amendment 1157 creates a loophole in the Freedom of Information Act. With this loophole, the Secretary of Defense is granted the power to conceal photographs of any torture of prisoners of the U.S. military – whether those photographs were taken in the past, or will be taken in the future.

The following are graphs showing the frequency distribution of bill cosponsorship in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate as of February 13, 2009. Cosponsorship is the signing of a member of Congress’ name to a bill, an act that formally indicates support for the bill. The x-axis in each graph represents [...]

The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.