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…”As John Adams wrote in 1780, ours is a government of laws and not of men. What is at stake today is that defining principle of our nation, and thus the very nature of America. As the Supreme Court has written, ‘Our Constitution is a covenant running from the first generation of Americans to us and then to future generations.’ The Constitution includes no wartime exception, though its Framers knew well the reality of war. And, as Justice Holmes reminded us shortly after World War I, the Constitution

OK, this is very exciting. Take a deep breath. A clever, clever man figured out how to run IE 5, 5.5, and 6 concurrently in Windows. This is a great thing for designers that want to test their pages in different browsers without the hassle of running emulation software or partitioning hard drives. And the icing on the cake is that this very nice man has tested this out in various versions of windows, zipped all the various stand-alone installations of IE, and made them available for download. Yay! And finally to keep all these versions straight, download some color-coded icons for the 3 versions, courtesy of Luke Redpath. One last note: all three versions will say they are version 6, but they’re not. Have fun!

I’ll keep it short cause I’m in a hurry but I came across this and had to post: Bush and Cheney have a blog! To be fair, I don’t think they themselves actually post on it. And to be equitalbe, Wesley Clark has a blog as well.

If you want to know who is really profiting from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, take a look at the Center for Public Integrity’s page, Windfalls of War. By filing Freedom of Information requests with various U.S. government agencies, they have managed to put together a list showing which companies have received recontruction contracts and for what amounts. Any surprise that Halliburton tops the list?