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Surveillance in the rabbit-hole

Gonzales grilled on wiretapping: “‘Are you [objecting to] the court giving us a decision that you publicly announced?’ the senator asked. ‘Are we in Alice in Wonderland here?’”

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On Jesus Camp (and going to one)

Lizzie invited me to last night’s screening of Jesus Camp. I went, with some trepidation. “It’s okay,” she told me, as the opening credits started. “You’re sitting next to a Jew.” I tend to shrink from reimmersion in the whacked-out, storefront-church world of my childhood. Also, I worried that the tone of the film might be broadly mocking, and I . . .

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