On Friday, December 16, 2005, despite increasing pressure from the White House and its allies, 47 Senators from both parties rejected a cloture motion to limit debate on legislation to reauthorize the Patriot Act, which means that efforts to “fix” the Patriot Act can continue.
Many of the Senators talked about the need [...]

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Historic Evergreens
In the Northern hemisphere, the shortest day and longest night of the year (falling sometime between December 20 and 23) is called the Winter solstice. When ancient peoples observed the air becoming colder, the days getting shorter and the deciduous trees, bushes, and crops dying or hibernating for the winter, many became afraid [...]

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Sometime during the night on December 1, 2005, our server went down. At first, it appeared as if a hard disk had gone bad and all that needed to be done was to replace the disk and restore the databases from backup, a no-brainer task which would have taken roughly two hours [...]

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