Keyblogging is not that new, but the threat it poses to your privacy is growing. Here's a simple example. Could this have happened to you? If so, you should read this entire Washington Post article.

When Graeme Frost received an e-mail notice that an expensive digital camera had been charged to his credit card account, he immediately clicked on the Internet link included in the message that said it would allow him to dispute the charge. As the 29-year-old resident of southwestern England scoured the resulting Web page for the merchant's phone number, the site silently installed a password-stealing program that transmitted all of his personal and financial information.

Still not concerned?

The Judge presiding over the case in which the Justice Department is seeking search user data from Google said today he intends to grant some of the relief requested by the Government.

U.S. District Judge James Ware told the Justice Department it can expect to get at least some of the information sought from Google as part of the Bush administration's effort to revive a law meant to shield children from online pornography.

Initially, DOJ wanted billions of search requests and Web site addresses" as part of a study it is conducting attempting to show that kids can access explicit material on the web despite the use of filtering software. Google balked at the subpoena (although Yahoo, MSN and AOL partially complied) contending that providing the information would compromise user privacy and the company's trade secrets. Today, DOJ told the court it would reduce its request to "a random sampling of 50,000 Web site addresses indexed by Google and the text of 5,000 random search requests."

A whopping 300,000 to 500,000 persons took to the streets in Chicago Friday to protest the anti-immigrant border patrol bill pending in Congress (H.R. 4437). It's great to see that so many haven't forgotten that America is a nation of immigrants.

For once, state and local officials took a stand for the immigrants:

"Whether their names are Gutierrez or Lozano, Lipinski or Blagojevich; it doesn't matter," said Gov. Rod Blagojevich. "This is a country build by immigrants."

Mayor Richard M. Daley said: "This is a fight that includes every American. Those who are here undocumented, we're not going to make criminals out of them. That is not what America has ever stood for and will not stand for."

U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez told the crowd that immigrants are here to stay, and pledged to work to block the bill.

I just wish someone had worn a sign saying, "Tom Tancredo, go home."

Colorado high school teacher Jay Bennish has been through a week of hell, ever since a student's parent took the kid's tape-recording of one of Bennish' lectures to a conservative media outlet. In the lecture, which you can listen to here, and which Michelle Malkin transcribed here, Bennish made a comparison between Bush and Hitler and criticized U.S. drug policy and capitalism without presenting the other side.

Bennish was placed on Administrative leave, pending the conclusion of an investigation. It's now over. Bennis has been reinstated with full pay. The school's statement is here. I just received a voice-mail from civil liberties guru and lawyer David Lane, who represents Mr. Bennish (and CU Prof Ward Churchill) and he is very excited.

He reports: Mr. Bennish has been reinstated with full pay. Not one nickel will be withheld from his paycheck. He'll be back in the classroom Monday. They feel wonderful. It is an excellent outcome. Lane is gratified that the Cherry Creek School District understands the primacy of the First Amendment. He's only sorry that Mr. Bennis was pulled out of class for the investigation.

Congratulations to David and Mr. Bennish, and to those who cherish the First Amendment's right to freely express yourself.

I'll be debating uber-conservative David Horowitz on the case tonight on Hannity and Colmes (9pm ET, top of the show). The hosts are Alan Colmes and Rich Lowery, who is guesting for Sean Hannity.

S.D. Governor Mike Rounds has signed the bill banning abortions passed last week by the state legislature.

The bill would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure was necessary to save the woman's life. It would make no exception for cases of rape or incest.

The bill carries a five year prison sentence for doctors performing illegal abortions.

In a unanimous opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court today upheld the "Solomon Amendment" and ruled that military recruiters must be allowed on campus. Scotus Blog has more details.

Upholding the so-called "Solomon Amendment," the Court ruled that the military must be given access to those campuses even though it violates the law schools' policy against facilitating discrimination against homosexuals. The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy bars homosexuals who are publicly identified from serving in any of the services.

In a part of the decision rejecting a non-constitutional argument for avoiding the "Solomon Amendment," the Court declared that law schools could not exclude the military even if they also excluded all other potential employers that similarly declined to hire gays and lesbians. "Applying the same policy to all recruiters is insufficient to comply with the statute if it results in a greater level of access for other recruiters than for the military. Law schools must ensure that their recruiting policy operates in such a way that military recruiters are given access to students at least equal to that 'provided to any other employer.' "

First, President Bush dragged his feet in nominating chairs and members of the Civil Liberties Protection board recommended in the 9/11 Commission Report. In June, 2005, he announced his appointments:

Bush picked Texas lawyer Carol Dinkins, who was deputy attorney general under former President Reagan, to chair the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and Alan Charles Raul, an administration official in the former Bush and Clinton administrations, to be vice chairman.

The other members chosen by Bush were: Lanny Davis, once a crisis manager in the Clinton White House; former Solicitor General Ted Olson; and General Electric Co. executive Francis X. Taylor, a former head of diplomatic security and counterterrorism coordinator at the State Department.

National Journal has more on the Board here. Michael Isikoff in Newsweek today reports the board is finally going to meet.

Wal-Mart did a turnaround today and announced all company pharmacies will carry the morning after pill (Plan B birth control.)

However, it will allow its pharmacists who morally object to providing the pill not to have to dispense it. They can either refer the customer to another pharmacist or if none is available, to a nearby store.

Why do pharmacists get to refuse to provide the pill? Do supermarket cashiers get to refuse to ring up meat because they are vegetarians? If the drug is legal, they should have to provide it-- or find another job.

Before you order from Domino's pizza again, you may want to think twice:

If Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan has his way, a new town being built in Florida will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control.

The pizza magnate is bankrolling the project with at least $250 million and calls it "God's will."

Update: There may be no need to hold Monaghan's views against Dominos. A Talkleft reader points us to Snopes which reports Monaghan sold his interest in the company in 1998 and he receives no dollars from pizza sales.

A photo intern at the Birmingham News was looking for a camera lens in an equipment closet and found a box marked "Keep, don't sell." Inside were dozens of previously unpublished photos from the Civil Rights movement era. The paper published them in a Sunday supplement, and you can view many of them online here.

Sen. Arlen Specter has introduced a "guest worker" bill for immigrants that would allow many undocumented workers to legally remain in the U.S.

The draft circulated by the lawmaker, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, would also authorize millions of illegal immigrants who arrived in this country before Jan. 4, 2004 to remain here indefinitely, along with their spouses and children, as long as they registered with the Department of Homeland Security, paid back taxes and remained law-abiding and employed, among other conditions.

Both houses of the South Dakota legislature have now passed a near-ban on abortion. This was done deliberately, in an effort to set-up a Roe v. Wade review by the Supreme Court.

South Dakota lawmakers approved a ban on nearly all abortions Friday, setting up a deliberate frontal assault on Roe v. Wade at a time when some activists see the U.S. Supreme Court as more willing than ever to overturn the 33-year-old decision. Republican Gov. Mike Rounds said he was inclined to sign the bill, which would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life. The measure would make no exception in cases of rape or incest.

....Under the measure, doctors could get up to five years in prison for performing an illegal abortion. The House passed the bill 50-18 on Friday, and the Senate approved it 23-12 earlier this week. If signed, it would become law July 1.

Reactions? Molly Saves the Day has decided to blog instructions for performing a dilation/curettage abortion. She will follow-up with directions for performing "vacuum aspiration for first-trimester pregnancies and inducing miscarriages for later ones." Dadahead wonders if this is dangerous to put on the internet.

Amanda at Pandagon thinks it's okay to publish this information. She comments on Dadahead:

...women will do it anyway. Just because the government cuts off their best option doesn't mean they should be forced to take the worst option. Without spreading the knowledge of how to do it, many women will resort to even more dangerous methods.