Speaking of alarmism, some recent crazy-fun headlines from Zzzzalon, all by Michelle Goldberg:

Outlawing dissent
Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom.

A thousand J. Edgar Hoovers
State and local police are taking it upon themselves to investigate antiwar activists -- and in the computer age, the threat to our civil liberties is even greater than it was in Hoover's day.

The partisan "mastermind" in charge of Bush's intel probe
Whenever there's a vast right-wing conspiracy, Judge Laurence Silberman keeps turning up.

Um, am I detecting a predictable narrative here? Ms. Goldberg, scarf your meds now.