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U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled in favor of Brandon Mayfield, a lawyer wrongly arrested by the FBI in 2004 for possible ties to the Madrid train bombings, who challenged the secret searches of his home and office. The judge said the amendments made by the Patriot Act to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the government to conduct searches and monitor American citizens without probable cause, which is typically required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost at least $190 billion in 2008, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, making it the most expensive year in the conflicts since they were launched by President George W. Bush. Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress to approve the funding after Bush this month beat back demands from Democrats for a quick end to the Iraq war and said the U.S. presence there would go on after he leaves office in 2009.

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"I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size)," wrote Tolkien to a correspondent in 1958. "I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated) . . . I like, and even dare to wear these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much."

I have been thinking of late that when I graduate I will give my computer to someone who needs it, and not own one anymore. I have thought about this a lot lately. No, this is not some rash I hate technology rampage. I have really seriously considered it. There is still such a thing as a post office, and you could still mail me. I might get rid of my cell phone and microwave too. I really hope that I do. I could handle going somewhere else and checking my email once a week, or once a month, or maybe not having it at all. And yet this is all so contradictory as I sit here and type this out using the technology I use all the time and simply can't get away from. Sometimes I wish that I was born in a different age. Maybe if I could choose, I would choose to live in a different land, a different world. It would be a very hard decision, but I think that I just might be able to make it.

Jones is back

Email from Logging Camp

"Wuz up, that would be slang for 7 and 8th graders"
~Lizzie

I'm antzy

T-1 hour...

I can't wait to see people.

I have missed the Winther family beyond all imaginable ability to miss someone. I think that I will have to refrain from tackling and accidentally knocking mom over. Nothing against all of those of you who are under the age of twenty, but I think that the hardest part of this debate season will be missing a few certain people... Mrs. Yerzy, Mrs. Wiemeyer, and Mrs. Winther. Well, I'll be around mom more than the rest, but I won't see Mrs. Wiemeyer unless I go to a tournament, and won't see Mrs. Yerzy very often. :-(

Well, I thought I was over our last round at the M&M tournament... apparently not.