[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Really? You don't have any questions about power and its abuses?

Deplorable logic. It has not yet been demonstrated to my own satisfaction -- or to the satisfaction of most posters here -- that conservative government (in general) or this administration (in particular) has any problem re: "power and its abuses." Unlike, say, the Clinton White House.

I'd be very interested to hear how you have found peace with all that.

The same way many of us "find peace" with the concepts of vampires, werewolves and mean, mean ogres: by adamantly refusing to lose sleep over that which has not yet been intelligently demonstrated.

[iconoclast]

Deplorable logic. It has not yet been demonstrated to my own satisfaction -- or to the satisfaction of most posters here -- that conservative government (in general) or this administration (in particular) has any problem re: "power and its abuses." Unlike, say, the Clinton White House.

You simply can't be serious, you are either being facetious or you're outright scary!

I grant you that 9/11 made it new ball game, but (IMHO) martial law should have been declared with automatic, periodic, specified reviews of all subsequent, related legislation.