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The worst features of two bad copyright bills, defeated previously in Congress, have been combined into a single monstrous bill, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, introduced in the Senate on Thursday.  The bill permits the forfeiture of property from copyright infringers, which means that if you download a movie you could lose your house.  No, I am not making this up.  The bill also turns federal prosecutors into a legal department of the movie industry, permitting federal prosecutors to file civil suits against alleged infringers, under the more lax standard of proof used in civil cases.

Three children and three adults were killed by a missile strike in the village of Azam Warsak, apparently launched from an unmanned U.S. aircraft operating inside Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.  Sources say the school was hit by “missiles,” plural, not by just a single missile, so this clearly wasn’t a case of a single missile going astray from its intended target.  The Bush administration didn’t bother to comment.  If we didn’t have enemies in that village before, presumably we do now.