[Sciencedebate 2008]
Finally, a candidate answers some questions that matter.

[thisislondon]
Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a "declaration of war" by Russia.

[The New York Times]
A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the FBI to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion.

[Yahoo! News]
Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.

[WAtoday]
Who is behind climate change deniers? Exxon-Mobil, for one.

[The Washington Post]
The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.

[Harper's Magazine]
The real problem we face is not the Bush Administration’s imperial pretensions, its quasi-cultish stress on loyalty, or its instinctive suspicion of debate and dissent but the extent to which the administration’s modus operandi is representative of a society increasingly conversant with the protocols of subservience. In the long term, it is this tilt toward deference, this willingness to hold our tongues and sit on our principles, that truly threatens us, even more than the manifold abuses of this administration, because it makes them possible.

[Yahoo! News]
A federal judge has rejected Bush's contention that senior White House advisers are immune from subpoenas, siding with Congress' power to investigate the executive branch.