In the Dallas Morning News (registration required) Rod Dreher comments on The Patriot Act.
Like Josh Claybourn, I haven't actually read the act (I tried reading bills on the House and Senate websites, but it isn't easy to do, they get real technical, and unlike Josh, I didn't get a law degree), but I think that ACLU-type criticism is overblown. I apply a little litmus test - I'll admit it's not infallible, but it suits me pretty well. Any group that doesn't believe that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution gives me a right to own a gun is not qualified to tell me what a tyrannical government looks like. So all the ACLU arguments get discounted right away just on that basis.