Unfortunately, I often only have a short time in the early morning each day to post stories on this blog. Given the pressures of classes, litigation, and traveling, I will often miss typos or automatically “corrected” words that are errors. I apologize for those errors, but we have no staff or copy editors on this blog. We welcome any suggested corrections. Thanks again for your help and your understanding.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/07/opinion/van-schewick-net-neutrality/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Will the FCC ruin the Internet?
By Barbara van Schewick
updated 4:17 PM EST, Fri November 7, 2014
The article:
Morocco High Council Issues Fatwa To Kill Those Who Renounce Islam
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/04/26/morocco-high-council-issues-fatwa-to-kill-those-who-renounce-islam/
In correctly states:
In the Koran, Bukhari 52:260 quotes Mohammad as saying “If somebody [a Muslim] discards his religion, kill him.”
That is NOT a quote from the Qur’an, but from the hadith. While the Qur’an is universal doctrine in Islam, Muslims have different views on the role and authenticity of hadith.
There is no earthly punishment for apostasy or blasphemy prescribed in the Qur’an.
Thank You Ilisha, I have made the correction.
Dog Worship Day in Nepal
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/dog-worship-day-in-nepal-slideshow/
In Pennsylvania, the “Revictimization Relief Act,” which affords virtually unlimited discretion to district attorneys and the state attorney general to silence prisoner speech, by claiming that such speech causes victims’ families “mental anguish” has been passed by the PA legislature. PA lawmakers have openly said they passed the legislation as a way to target one of the state’s most well-known prisoners: journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal. The bill was fast-tracked in the legislature and Gov. Tom Corbett is set to sign it into law.
In the sky is falling post
@NASA HUGE CORRECTION
“The cold waters of Earth’s deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.”
“In the 21st century, greenhouse gases have continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, just as they did in the 20th century, but global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising in tandem with the gases. The temperature of the top half of the world’s oceans — above the 1.24-mile mark — is still climbing, but not fast enough to account for the stalled air temperatures.”
“Many processes on land, air and sea have been invoked to explain what is happening to the “missing” heat. One of the most prominent ideas is that the bottom half of the ocean is taking up the slack, but supporting evidence is slim. ”
Can read more here http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/nasa-study-finds-earth-s-ocean-abyss-has-not-warmed/
http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/hate-post2.jpg
In the Drumbeat post, “(while of course claiming that he needs for such authorization)”. I suspect for should be no.
In the Former Bush Lawyer post, “broke nose” SB “broken nose”.
Is there a reason comments are turned off for Mike Appleton’s post of Sept 7th?
I can’t find your email so my objection goes here.
on 1, September 1, 2014 at 11:59 am Nick Spinelli wrote on Swatting Hoax:… thread:
“Theo, You’re absolutely correct, Fox needs to take its cue from MSNBC and hire august people like Al Sharpton. Maybe Fox can hire Keith Olbermann, It is the right thing to do to hire the mentally ill.”
Is an assertion that Al Sharpton and/ Keith Olbermann are mentally ill civil discourse?
I don’t know if this will interest you or not, but I thought it was pretty interesting.
http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1226
In recent post:
http://jonathanturley.org/2014/08/27/police-officers-respond-to-a-report-of-an-armed-man-disturbing-the-peace-and-fire-nine-rounds-killing-an-innocent-woman-the-suspect-is-then-charged-with-murder/#comment-1276382
Kody’s last name is sometimes spelled Roach and sometimes spelled Rouch. I think Roach is the correct spelling based upon source link.
Thanks David M I will correct it.
Professor and guest bloggers, this may interest you.
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment
SUMMERVILLE, SC (WCSC) –
A Summerville High School student who says he was arrested and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun in a class assignment has hired a lawyer.
Attorney David Aylor, who is representing 16-year-old Alex Stone, said his client’s arrest over a creative writing assignment on Tuesday was “completely absurd,” and is seeking to appeal the suspension and “proceed with the legal issues of [Stone’s] arrest.”
“This is a perfect example of ‘political correctness’ that has exceeded the boundaries of common sense,” Aylor said in a statement released on Thursday.”Students were asked to write about themselves and a creative Facebook status update – just days into the new school year – and my client was arrested and suspended after a school assignment.”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/certification-allows-us-trade-negotiators-rewrite-tpps-copyright-rules
Certification Allows US Trade Negotiators to Rewrite TPP Copyright Rules
As the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) continue to trudge along, little new information has leaked because the negotiations are being conducted under conditions of strict secrecy.
But this week, the launch of the TPP: No Certification website has shed new light on one issue that has been often overlooked before now. The United States, exclusively amongst the dozen negotiating partners, is reserving the right to vet other countries’ implementation of the agreement before its own obligations come into effect. This has worrying implications for other countries planning to take advantage of whatever flexibilities remain in the TPP text after the negotiations are finished.
http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/warner-robins/2014/08/06/miller-elementary-warner-robins-weapon-contraband/13672973/http://
9-year-old suspended for taking Nerf gun to show and tell.
This is not a correction, but a request. I would like to see Professor Turley or a Guest Blogger post an article about the following legal development:
Federal judge rules New Mexico city hall must remove Ten Commandments monument
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/08/federal-judge-rules-new-mexico-city-hall-must-remove-ten-commandments-monument.php
NY woman… snake
the main for…. door?
the story is most be telling….. the story it must be telling?
Update:
Woman files lawsuit against two Davenport police officers and city after altercation
Posted 4:28 pm, July 30, 2014, by Katrina Lamansky, Updated at 10:55am, July 31, 2014
http://wqad.com/2014/07/30/woman-files-lawsuit-against-two-davenport-police-officers-and-city-after-altercation/
The prevailing sentiment seems to be that since she shoplifted and bit his gloved finger that she deserved the beating that followed. God help us.