He was "detained" only because of a mechanical problem with a plane on which he had hoped to fly to the Ninth Circuit conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. But former deputy AG and "torture memo" author John Yoo‘s failure to…
Anyone who thinks the "War on Terror" will be declared over anytime soon should think about this: the U.S. government just now removed Nelson Mandela from its official terrorist watchlist. Mandela was put on the list along with other members…
CNN reported on June 24 that U.S. immigration authorities had denied a visa to George Alan O’Dowd, better known to some as Boy George of "Culture Club" fame. O’Dowd, 48, had been scheduled to perform a series of concerts in…
I’m starting to think it is the purpose of a house of representatives (using lower-case there to mean, generically, that half of a bicameral legislature, not a specific house that happens to be full of representatives) to pass utterly stupid…
A battle has been going on for about three weeks now between the state of Oregon, which has laws, and some legal websites that have been publishing those laws. Oregon is insisting that they not do so. Justia.com, for example,…
If you have been taking any comfort in the idea that our strategy in the War on Terror can’t get any worse, cut it out. MSNBC reported recently that the Pentagon has spent $2.5 million to date on a project…
In which the “burn the witch” scene from Monty Python is actually discussed.
In addition to the continuing War on Low Pants, about which I will report again in the near future, other recent legislative developments in the Midwest are threatening the rights of young people. In Arkansas, the right of toddlers to…
On March 21, the Boston Globe reported that, after a year-long investigation by the Justice Department, the FBI has concluded that three FBI agents should be terminated for a noogie one of them delivered to a federal prosecutor in 2006….
In case you missed it, February 27th was "Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day," as proclaimed by Ron Littlefield, mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Littlefield said he was concerned about them because the Georgia Legislature had passed a resolution expressing…