Weekend of July 29, 2007
It was a fairly quiet weekend. Lay was working, so we did not have his nephews over, and I got a little much needed rest.
Read moreSociety
A general category for things related to our society and how we interact with one another.
More Constitutional Erosion
In his weekly radio address Bu$h demanded that Congress update the laws governing electronic surveillance. Now why would George give a damn about whether the law is up-to-date or not. It’s not like the Cheney/Bush Administration is following any of the laws anyway.
Read moreNews for the Week Ending July 22, 2007
This post summarizes various smaller news items of interest that I found during the week of July 23, 2007.
Read moreVitter Has Double Standard-Big Suprise There, He's a Senator
Senator David Vitter is the United States Senator who was on the phone records for the D.C. Madame. He went into exclusion for a while, then came to give a brief statement, have his wife pimp for him, and then duck out the back door as if nothing had happened. It was a pretty shameful display.
Read moreHolsinger Confirmation Hearings
Some of you may know that James Holsinger has been nominated by Bush to be Surgeon General. So who is this goober (and a goober he is)? He’s the chairperson of the Methodist Supreme Judicial Committee that ruled it was OK for a Methodist minister to keep a gay person from joining his church.
Read moreNews for The Week of July 15, 2007
This is a wrap up of some of the more interesting news items for the week ending Sunday, July 15, 2007.
Read morePassengers Have Rights Too
Bruce Brendlin was arrested in 2001 for drug possession after a car in which he was a passenger was stopped by Yuba City police. The State had conceded there was no basis for the original vehicle stop, so Brendlin had argued that the drug evidence should be suppressed. The Associated Press is reporting that the Supreme Court has ruled that passengers in automobiles have the same Constitutional protections from illegal searches.
Read moreDurham DA-May Have Announced Resignation
I only caught the tail end of the report, but it appears, based on what I was hearing on WRAL that in a statement in his State Bar hearing, Durham DA Nifong announced that he was going to step down as DA. According to the WRAL reporter, he was “nearly in tears.”
Read moreA Little Habeas for Your Corpus
Wow, the courts have sure been busy lately. They given us lots of fun stuff to cover. Let’s see what we have:
Read moreThe $54M Pants and Other News of The Week Ending June 5, 2007
This is a wrap of smaller news items for the week ending June 10, 2007.
Read moreLiberal Media Ignoring Al Qaeda Torture Manuals?
Last week the U.S. Military reported finding Al Qaeda torture manuals in a “safe house” in Iraq. The pro-torture wingnuts are all atwitter with the news, as they get out there to say, “they do it too.” As if that’s all the license the U.S. needs to condone torture.
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