The New York Times has qouted Majority Leader Harry Reid in an extraordinary statement and suggests that Democrats will not fight on the principle of torture — or another civil liberties issue in the last six years. Continue reading “Democratic Majority Leader Reid Says Torture is Just One Issue and Would Not Bar Mukasey”
Month: October 2007
FEMA is still trying to recover from its almost criminal negligence during the Katrina disaster. Eager to court good news on its California efforts, however, FEMA showed equally bad judgment in staging a news conference in which staffers posed questions like reporters without revealing the deception to the public. Continue reading “FEMA Fakes News Conference Using Staff Members as Faux Reporters”
The Missouri Highway Patrol is testing a new scanning device that can detect the presence of meth at the press of a button. Continue reading “Police Developing Meth Gun — And Raising Serious Privacy and Policy Questions”
The Geroge Supreme Court has found the 10-year sentence of Genarlow Wilson to be unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. It is the final righting of a terrible wrong — brought about by a complete lack of prosecutorial discretion and logic. Continue reading “Georgia Supreme Court Strikes Down Ten Year Sentence of Genarlow Wilson as Cruel and Unusual Punishment”
The White House is defending its suppression of the results of health threats caused by global warming. Continue reading “White House Issues Defense of Suppression of Testimony”
The original CDC report on climate change has been leaked. For the full testimony, click here
The UN Environment Program’s fourth Global Environmental Outlook is out and it is bleak. Continue reading “U.N. Commission Warns Global Warming and Over-Population Now Threat to Human Survival”
A trial is on the way to determine whether privacy or free speech will prevail in a torts actions against the Westboro Baptist church of Topeka, Kansas, whose members have taunted the families of dead soldiers at their funerals with signs like “Thank God for dead soldiers.” Continue reading “Westboro Church Case Pits Privacy Against Free Speech”
For many, the campaign of Rex Duncan, an Oklahoma legislator, upset at receiving a free Koran (or Quran) was just an example of one highly bigoted individual. Continue reading “Additional Lawmakers in Oklahoma Return Korans — But Not Bibles — In Condemnation of a Religion”
Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider in Kansas, has filed an interesting challenge to a grand jury investigating his activities. Kansas allows citizens to gather signatures to call a grand jury investigation. Continue reading “Abortion Doctor Challenges the Kansas Grand Jury System”
Harry Potter may have fought the death eaters and Lord Voldemort to a stand still but he is no match for Catholic St. Joseph’s pastor, the Rev. Ron Barker. Continue reading “A New Campaign Against Witches in Massachusetts: Catholic School Bans Harry Potter”
The government’s terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that warns the the lack of restraint on putting people on the list is making it meaningless from a security standpoint — and increasingly annoying for citizens barred from flights. Continue reading “Terror Watch List Now Approaching 800,000 People”
In past cases involving shootings, police have argued that some people use the police to end their lives in so-called “suicide by cop” cases. Now, a defendant is claiming that another man wanted to be shot when he tried to engage in gay sex — what his defense attorney called “suicide by rape.” Continue reading “New Defense Theory: Suicide by Rape”
President Bush has only recently back off of his long opposition to the theory of global warming, once even rejected his own scientists support of the theory as “junk science.” Now, however, it has been disclosed that the White House cut out testimony to Congress that revealed the scope of the dangers of global warming to citizens. Continue reading “White House Barred Release of CDC Testimony on Global Warming to Congress”
The attorney general nominee’s evasive remarks on ‘water-boarding’ should disqualify him from the job. Continue reading “Mukasey’s Confirmation: A Vote about Torture”