The State of the Union address and the Senate vote on Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court make this a crucial week in Washington, not to mention the outcome of the Palestinian election and calls for Abbas’ resignation. Plus: a case for the Patriot Act, your calls on Health Savings accounts and the (maybe) first-ever DVD-magazine
State of Politics
Mike Allen White House correspondent for Time Magazine
- previews tomorrow’s the State of the Union Address
- previews tomorrow’s the State of the Union Address
Open Phones
listeners with health savings accounts share their experiances
Patriot Zone
Amitai Etzioni University Professor at George Washington University and author, How Patriotic is the Patriot Act?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism (Routledge, 2005),
- says Congress shouldn't block the Patriot Act
» Amitai Etzioni
» "How Patriotic ...
- says Congress shouldn't block the Patriot Act
» Amitai Etzioni
» "How Patriotic ...
For Our Chinese Friends on the Web
Here's one way to subvert the new censorship decreed by Beijing and abetted by Google, via digg.com:
Chinese web users can see full, uncensored results for their Google search by replacing "&meta=" with "&meta=cr%3DcountryBR" in the URL. Once the string is replaced, the censorship will not affect the results
...The Other Wholphin
The world's only whale-dophin hybrid. No word on whether it can sing "Stairway to Heaven" backwards.
Required Reading: January 30, 2006
ABC anchor and cameraman wounded in Iraq (ABC)
Israelis organize international boycott of Hamas (Washington Post)
Ben Bernanke takes the reins at the Fed this week (CS Monitor)
A week of tax-free clothes shopping in NYC begins today (NY Sun)
Enron trials begin today (NY ...