Lotsa Stuff Going On

Watergategate Update: Mark Walker for the North County TImes reports that Duke Cunningham is cooperating with the feds again, in the ongoing investigation of other potential criminal misconduct. via TPM Muckraker Net Neutrality: Saving the Internet Moby announces Artists and Musicians for Internet Freedom in Washington, D.C via Tracy Van Slyke Senate Votes To Make The Word "Taco" Illegal On Menus In Capitol Cafeteria Well, that's the effect indirectly, since a menu in the Capitol cafeteria is a "federal communication." Jonathan Weisman and Jim VandeHei for WaPo report the "Senate yesterday voted to make English the "national language" of the United States., declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except for those already guaranteed by law." "Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called the amendment "racist," and Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) dismissed it as divisive and anti-American." BellSouth Denies Connection To NSA Data Mining Jeremy Pelofsky for Reuters reports that USA Today retract claims in a story that said the company had a contract with a U.S. spy agency and turned over customers' telephone records. via Kevin Drum, who poses a couple logical questions The Decider Jon Stewart introduces another episode in the saga. Norm at onegoodmove has the video. update: Fitzmas Update Steve Clemons discusses Richard Armitage's status in the Fitzgerald investigation, and according to one of Clemons's sources, "the information provided by Richard Armitage is -- more than any other information -- what has put Karl Rove at major risk of indictment."