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Barack Obama Wins US Presidency
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War
Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care
Discuss the US Presidential Election
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy
$700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law
Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber"
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education
Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality
Pirate Party Comes to the U.S.
U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality
Will the Next Election Be Hacked?
Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All
Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans
Bill Joy For New National CTO Post?
10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web"
Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format
More Voting Shenanigans in Florida
New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame
Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign
Diebold Threatens Wary Voting Clerk
Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama
China - We Don't Censor the Internet
Bogus Experts Fight Your Right To Broadband
Pete Ashdown on his Run at the Hill
Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic
Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates
US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
House Passes Ban on Social Site Access
In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems
McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy
The Worst Bill You've Never Heard Of
US Government Restricting Research Libraries
Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians?
China Frustrated In Encryption Talks
Congress Sets Sights on Videogames
Bruce Perens on the Status of Open Source
Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents
Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin
How We Used To Vote
Voters Vote Yes, County Says No
Abuses of Science Political Cartoon Contest
Best Presidential Candidate, Democrats
Bioethics Group Raises DNA Database Concerns
Colbert New Comic-in-Chief
Death By DMCA
Governments Prepare for Cyber Cold War
Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide
Russian Police Seize Kasparov
"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption
Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 0
Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon
DRM and Democracy
Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security
Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House
Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit
Net Neutrality Act On the Agenda Again
OOXML Denied INCITS V1 Approval
Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband
Rewriting Environmental Science
The Privacy Candidate
UK Parliament to be Made Redundant?
Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House
Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans
House Panel Approves Electronic Surveillance Bill
Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s
Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated
Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams'
Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
A Stark Warning On Climate Change
Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel
Australian PM Has Parody Site Shut Down
Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?
Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites
Congress to Debate Net Neutrality
ESRB Our Last Defense Against Game Censorship?
EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S.
Google Avoids Surrendering Search Info
House Passes Patent Overhaul Bill
How Close Were US Presidential Elections?
How The Internet Works - With Tubes
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
MA Senator Decries OpenDocument Decision
Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition
McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire
McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs
Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing
ODF Alliance Continues to Grow and Build Out
Obama's Evolving Stance On NASA
Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register
Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot
Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain
Skype Messages Monitored In China
Source Control For Bills In Congress?
Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted
U.S. Attorney General Resigns
U.S. Government Intervenes in EFF vs. AT&T
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data
UN Broadcasting Treaty May Restrict Speech
US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris
Venezuelan Interest In U.S. Voting Software
Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6
WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes
Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online
White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records
AllofMP3.com May Hinder Russia Joining WTO
Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press
Bloggers Exempted From Campaign Laws
Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer
Canada's Copyright Cops Give Go-Ahead For iPod Tax
Canadian Domain Registry Pulls Plug on Free Speech
Eric Schmidt on Net Neutrality
French Lawmakers Approve 'iTunes Law'
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping
Michael Bloomberg Defends Science
North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test
Politicians Target Social Sites For Restrictions
President Defends Global Outsourcing
Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base
Senate Bill To Prohibit Extra Charges For Internet
Tilting At Windmills
U.S. House Clears Anti-Internet Gambling Bill
U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy
Videogames Used to Train Terrorists?
Avoiding the Word "Evolution"
Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws
Canadian Gov't Gives Big Bucks to Copyright Lobby
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
Election Commission Takes a Light Touch With Net Regs
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
Group Fights Politicizing Science and Engineering
Has Ron Paul Quit?
Hotel Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machines
House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney
Indian State Encourages Microsoft Removal
Indiana Allows BP To Pollute Lake Michigan
Interview With Leader of Sweden's Pirate Party
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
MN Bill Would Require Use of Open Data Formats
Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job
NZ MPs Outlaw Satire of Parliament
Obama Launches Change.gov
Obama's Impending NASA Decisions
Open Source Foes In Bed With Abramoff
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA
Patent Reform Act Proposes Sweeping Changes
Patriot Act Game Pokes Fun at Government
Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents
Political Leaning and Free Software
Proposal to Update the Electoral College
Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping
Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV?
Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL
Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals
The .XXX Saga Continues in Wellington
The Return of the Fairness Doctrine?
UK Government Passes ID Card Bill
UK Parliament Questioning DRM
University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally
Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff
What NASA Won't Tell You About Air Safety
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity
Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine
$9 Billion Loophole for Synthetic Fuel
Back to the Bunker
Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
Blog Action Day
China vs U.S. in an 'Internet Race'
Congress Passes Energy Efficient Server Initiative
DMCA Creator Admits Failure, Blames RIAA
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day
EU Software Patent War Ignites Again