Daily Blend: Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Julian Assange

• Julian Assange [pictured] arrested in Britain, denied bail and sent to jail over those increasingly bogus Swedish rape charges that I’m sure are the real reason for his apprehension. Yup.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Democrats are getting better: They’ve only mostly caved in to Republicans on the Bush tax cuts.

• Kenya joins Uganda in enforcing an anti-gay purge.
  (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

• Judge who convicted a lawyer for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance now admits he was wrong, gets reprimanded and fined $100. Better than nothing.
  (via The Agitator)

• Shocking: US Government secretly and warrantlessly tracking Americans using their credit cards in real-time.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Okay, this is officially the single most ridiculous Christian reaction to an atheist ad I’ve ever seen.

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