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Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans
More Voting Shenanigans in Florida
Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign
China - We Don't Censor the Internet
Bogus Experts Fight Your Right To Broadband
Pete Ashdown on his Run at the Hill
US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus
Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians?
Voters Vote Yes, County Says No
Best Presidential Candidate, Democrats
Bioethics Group Raises DNA Database Concerns
Governments Prepare for Cyber Cold War
Russian Police Seize Kasparov
"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption
Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon
Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House
Net Neutrality Act On the Agenda Again
OOXML Denied INCITS V1 Approval
Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband
The Privacy Candidate
Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated
Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel
Congress to Debate Net Neutrality
House Passes Patent Overhaul Bill
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars
India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML
Internet Pranks in Schools
Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush
Karl Rove Resigning Aug 31
Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing
Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register
Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot
Source Control For Bills In Congress?
Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted
U.S. Attorney General Resigns
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris
Venezuelan Interest In U.S. Voting Software
Canada's Copyright Cops Give Go-Ahead For iPod Tax
Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base
Avoiding the Word "Evolution"
Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws
Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved
Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power
Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention
Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case
EU Commissioner Slams Music Lock-In
Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas
FTC To Take a Second Look at P2P
Federal Science Gets More Politicized
French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites
G.I. Joe No Longer the Real American Hero?
Genetically Modified Maize Is Toxic — Greenpeace
Germany Plans To Email Trojans
Has Ron Paul Quit?
House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney
Indiana Allows BP To Pollute Lake Michigan
Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job
NZ MPs Outlaw Satire of Parliament
Political Leaning and Free Software
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
The Return of the Fairness Doctrine?
University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally
What NASA Won't Tell You About Air Safety
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
Blog Action Day
DMCA Creator Admits Failure, Blames RIAA
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure
Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight
Google Calls for International Privacy Standards
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise
Hacking the Presidential Election
How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics
Iran Blocks, Unblocks Access to Google
Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts
Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site
Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets
Net Neutrality and BitTorrent - No More Throttling?
Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World
RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied
Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth
Telecom Immunity -- We're Down to the Wire(tap)
Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia
Eavesdropping Didn't Help Uncover Terrorist Plot
.su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever
Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home
Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology
Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs
British Government Slashes Scientific Research
C-SPAN Adopts Creative Commons-Style License
Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy?
Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War?
China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate
Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net
Congress Members Who Took RIAA Cash
Deathblow To a Voting Machine
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill
Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected
Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment
FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
FCC Moves To Regulate Cable TV Competition
FCC Votes Yet Another Study of Net Neutrality
French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu
Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad
Government Seeks Dismissal of Spy Suit
How Microsoft Beat Linux In China
ICANN Wants Immunity
Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP
Lessig Decides Not to Run For Congress
Massachusetts Likely To Approve OOXML
McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq
Microsoft Moves To Change NY State Election Law
Microsoft Opposing California Open Doc Bill
Mitt Romney Answers Tech Questions
NASA Slashing Observations of Earth
NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment"
New 'Net Neutrality' Bill Introduced
New Legislation Proposed For Nuclear Safety
New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street?
No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever
OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index
Open Letter to ISO Calls For Standardization of Process
Paraguay Telco Hijacks DNS Before Elections
Pirate Bay Raid Investigation Finished
Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe
REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU
RIAA & MPAA Seek Authority To Pretext
RMS Protest Song On Gitmo
Russia Announces End to Space Tourism in 2010
SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon
Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"
Sen. Ted Stevens Introduces "Son of DOPA"
Senate Majority Leader Takes On File Sharing
Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall
Senators Call For Hearing On Carrier Content Blocking
Senators Smack Down WIPO Broadcast Treaty
Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act"
Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration
Texas Bill For Open Documents
Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales
UK Moves To Allow Human Hybrid Experiments
UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus
US Urged To Keep Space Shuttles Flying Past 2010
Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds
What Would You Do As President?
White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed
Will Linux Win the Next Presidential Election?
A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly
States Seek More Oversight of Microsoft
'Over 30' Section For Games Stores?
Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?
Australian ISPs Reject Calls To Police Their Users
Bill Introduced to Congress Would Allow ID Theft Restitution
CRIA Admits P2P Downloading Legal in Canada
Canadian Gov't Grants Olympics Ownership of Winter
Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare
Chicago Cancels Municipal Wi-Fi Plan
EU Wants German Telekom Fiber Open to All
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED]
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records
FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing
FTC Says 'Slow Down' on Net Neutrality
Google to Blur Sensitive India Sites
Googlestalking For Covert NSA Research Funding
In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism
John Edwards on Open Source Voting Machines
Lenovo Looking to Buy Seagate, May Raise Political Concerns
Lobbying Could Cause Legal Trouble for Microsoft
Malaysian Candidates Required to Have Blogs
National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers
Net Radio Wins Partial Reprieve
Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras
Putting Canadian Piracy in Perspective
RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan
Report Warns Against Well-Meaning Net Censorship
Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment
Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt
Thailand Bans YouTube
The Coming Fight Over TV Violence
The Real Problem With the US Patent System
The SoundExchange Billion Dollar Administrative Fee
The Story of Baikonur, Russia's Space City
UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship?
Videogame Decency Act in Congress
Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking
White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?
Wildlife Deputy Changed Science For Lobbyists
Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon?