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We have arrived at a defining moment for the progressive movement in this nation.

The New York Times editorial board, which has generally given this president a lot of leeway throughout his career, wrote a scathing denunciation Friday of the Obama administration’s use of data mining, claiming that “the administration has now lost all credibility” on the issue of balancing civil rights with national security.

Every progressive with even a shred of moral consistency should side with the New York Times against the White House.

Progressives, Democrats must stand with New York Times against Obama on NSA phone records collection

Secrecy of surveillance programs blunt challenges about legality – The Washington Post

Apparently they feel that they never should have gone after Nixon.

Romney Regrets ’47 Percent’ Remark

Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval

“The Obama administration has been very aggressive about bullying and threatening anybody who thinks about exposing it or writing it or even doing journalism about it, and it’s well past time that come to an end,” he said.

Greenwald also told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the administration has taken a “warped and distorted” view of the PATRIOT Act, the legislation that authorized certain kinds of surveillance for security reasons in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“What the Obama administration is doing in interpreting the PATRIOT Act is so warped and distorted and it vests themselves with such extremist surveillance powers over the United States and American citizens that Americans, in their words, would be stunned to learn what the Obama administration is doing,” he said on CNN’s “The Lead.”

Glenn Greenwald: U.S. wants to destroy privacy worldwide – Katie Glueck – POLITICO.com

An IRS agent in the embattled Cincinnati office is lashing out at the agency’s managers for pinning the blame on them for the targeting of conservative groups, describing one official’s attempt to pass the blame as a “nuclear strike on us.”

IRS worker blasts Lerner for blaming Ohio office on targeting, likens effort to ‘nuclear strike’ | Fox News

Those 157 visits to the White House were essential to make plans for the Easter Egg Roll, and required a fifth amendment plea.

Another city living the Obama dream.

DETROIT — Detroit’s attempt to avoid bankruptcy will hit a critical stage next week as emergency manager Kevyn Orr brings together dozens of creditors to present a stark offer: less than 10 cents on the dollar for the loans, bonds, retiree obligations and other debts that have been strangling the city for years.

Orr is expected to meet late next week — his office wouldn’t say exactly when, but the location likely will be near Metro Airport — with as many as 150 representatives of the city’s major creditors, from big national banks that hold the city’s bonds and insurers who guarantee them, to unions and pensioners who rely on the city for retirement income and health care.

Detroit to offer creditors pennies on the dollar

Climate Central released this graph, which proves that global warming is burning up the US.

NOAA: 2012 Hottest & 2nd-Most Extreme Year On Record | Climate Central

It looks very different from Hansen’s 1999 graph, which showed that the US has been cooling since the 1930s.

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

The graph below overlays the Climate Cheating Central graph on the Hansen graph, at the same scale and normalized to the 1980s and 1990s.

Impressive work! They knocked almost a full degree centigrade off of 1934.

An honest graph shows that there has been no warming since the 1930s, and that 2012 wasn’t the hottest year. But that isn’t what Climate Cheating Central is all about.

Six weeks ago, leading government experts warned that the corn belt drought was going to get worse. It is that “extremely moist” kind of worsening drought.

• How long do you think you can keep propping this scam up?

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