From The Colbert Report:

If Congress doesn't reauthorize the Patriot Act, America's corporations are ready to step in.

TPM has more--How Easy Is It For The Police To Get GPS Data From Your Phone?:

Police can in some cases track cell phone location by merely telling a court that the information is relevant to an investigation, a legal expert tells TPM -- a fact that may partly explain how law enforcement racked up 8 million requests for GPS data from a single wireless carrier in a year.

An increasingly popular and easy-to-access surveillance tool for police, GPS data is not currently protected by the Fourth Amendment, and the standards for gaining access to the information are murky and highly variable. That's partly because one of the statutes that bears on the issue was passed in the mid-1980s, before many of the technologies involved were invented. And Congress hasn't done much to update the law since.

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From The Colbert Report:

Colbert: It takes true political courage for Joe Lieberman to oppose a Medicare buy-in option when he doesn't know what's in it.

Stephen Colbert talks to Matt Taibbi about his reporting on the Wall Street bailouts and Goldman Sach's unprecedented access in Washington. Matt's latest article at Rolling Stone is available on line now--Obama's Big Sellout The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway.

Here's Taibbi discussing his article.

Update: Well this is disappointing. Looks like Taibbi needs a fact-checker.

From The Colbert Report:

The GOP must put moderate Republicans in situations that reveal their true beliefs, like in the movie "Saw."

From The Colbert Report--Bernie Sanders, wonderful as always.

From The Colbert Report:

President Obama's speech to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan was missing passion and a certain word.

Best line of the clip going after the Fox talking heads saying we need to "win" in Afghanistan:

Colbert: Yeah, do as George Bush said, not as he didn't do!

From The Colbert Report:

By sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, President Obama must be unfamiliar with the chain of command.

From The Colbert Report:

Dan Esty believes President Obama will bring a change in spirit to the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

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Countdown's mashup of the late night comedians' reaction to Sarah Palin's book tour. Lawrence O'Donnell promised more to come as long as the tour continues. Kind of like shooting fish in a barrel but the Moose Hunter made herself an easy target.

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November 19, 2009 CBS David Letterman

..and for which Don Carcieri richly deserves it for his latest bit of asshattery by vetoing a piece of legislation which would have allowed for funeral arrangements among same-sex couples. Via Wikipedia:

Carcieri is the last remaining New England governor to vigorously oppose same-sex marriage; he is a member of the anti-same-sex marriage group National Organization for Marriage.

In November 2009, Carcieri vetoed H 5294 which, if enacted, would allow domestic partners to oversee and care for a same-sex partner's funeral arrangements. The bill's impetus was motivated by an event when the State refused to release the body of a man to his 17 year same-sex partner. In his veto message, Carcieri made the following statement: "This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of the incremental erosion of the principles surrounding traditional marriage, which is not the preferred way to approach this issue."[

In October 2009, Carcieri was the keynote speaker of the annual banquet of the Massachusetts Family Institute, a group openly opposed to same-sex marriage.

From The Colbert Report:

In punditry, like in "Highlander," there can be only one Lou Dobbs, so Stephen claims his audience after he quits CNN.

From The Colbert Report:

America's most insidious socialist brainwashing program, "Sesame Street," celebrates its 40th anniversary and introduces Pox News.

From The Colbert Report:

Karim Sadjadpour describes a math superstar's unprecedented act of challenging Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.