The feds can track you through your cell phone and they don't need a search warrant or probable cause to do so. The Obama admin says warrantless tracking is acceptable since Americans don't have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their cell phones' whereabouts. Rights groups say this violates the 4th Amendment. The constitutionality of the Justice Department's method of getting these records will be argued in federal court for the first time today.

"Well, federal appeals court will decide this pretty soon. I expect that is going to be a kind of split decision and that the courts are going to say for historical data - that where where your cell phone was in the past - that the department of justice, now federal prosecutors and local police can get this relatively easily, but for future data showing where your cell phone is every moment - in other words showing where you are every moment and this can be with 10 foot or 15 foot radius - very precise tracking technology then asearch warrant would be required. I think that's where the courts going to come down."

"The order is Rapidly fadin', And the first one now will later be last, For the times they are a-changin'."

Bob Dylan could be singing today and he would be as on as he was in 1964 when he penned that song of social upheaval. Forget about the stimulus package, it is now the progressive package. Forget about the economy. We are having a revolution. The old ways have not worked and they are DEAD. We are in the new world now like it or not. Global Warming is our problem. Health Care is our issue. The socialists are in the saddle, the liberals, the progressives. Why? Because the people were hungry for change. Not the left, not the liberals, not the socialist, not Barack Obama...the people. We are going to rebuild the country and take the lead in education now. Not because Barack Obama says it must be so but because the Country says it must be so.

Lobbyists, Government, and You By Evin Daly. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people...," Abraham Lincoln's vision from the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.

Washington DC is an island inhabited by the elected representatives of this fine country. Elected by their constituents these chosen few arrive in DC with the job of representing the people who voted for them.

Nestled into the framework of government, attached to the host like parasites, are the influencers of opinion and government policy; lobbyists. Their 'profession,' if you can call it that, is to pedal a medium of exchange for political consideration.

New Beginnings For US Foreign Policy By Laura Bramble. Secretary Clinton has been as busy girl. Not even six weeks into the job and she has visited major allies and potential partners and is on deck to visit more within the next two weeks. Already she has earned criticism and courted controversy in her handling of issues and her style.

In her most important trip to date, meeting with Chinese officials and leaders in Beijing, she has displayed great candor and pragmatism in her public comments. When pressed to comment about how she proposed to address human rights with Chinese officials, she acknowledged that, while she would stress the need for respect of the human rights of Chinese citizens by its government, it was unlikely that the situation would change. She was immediately attacked for her comment by those who took it as a sign of a lack of commitment by Secretary Clinton to rectify human rights abuses by the Chinese government against its people. She has spent the bulk of her trip dealing with the more practical issues that face our two nations, such as environmental standards, energy usage, trade, and the nuclear situation in North Korea, but has not made human rights a prominent public issue on this visit.