Following up on Christian Coin-gate that I reported on yesterday, the Army is now conducting an investigation: The US military said on Friday it was probing complaints that marines handed out coins inscribed with a verse from the Bible to a group of Sunni Muslims in Iraq, sparking outrage among local residents. It said a […]
That is an interesting argument raised by Michael Froomkin about the Wikileaks case: This isn’t a classic prior restraint on speech since it reaches the registrar not the speaker — but it’s close enough to stopping the delivery trucks on a newspaper that I think this aspect of the decision is a cause for some […]
This is becoming more of a mess by the day: It never did made sense to write off the Democratic primary votes in Florida and Michigan – and it makes even less sense now that Super Tuesday has brought forth a muddle in the delegate race. Even the party official who stripped Florida and Michigan […]
Following up on a post last week about Rudy defending his decision to move the emergency operations center into WTC 7, we now have more proof of people warning him it would be a bad idea: The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its […]
That’s right, we have self proclaimed lawyers on the right, and they are not happy with a judge’s decision yesterday to allow Dennis Kucinich in tonight’s MSNBC debate: However, the judgement is absurd on its face. In the first place, the state courts wouldn’t have jurisdiction for a national broadcast. Constitutionally, this case belonged in […]
Well Bush can say he isn’t worried about the mid-term elections but behind the scenes it looks different. When memos like this come out you got to wonder what they are thinking: Career appointees at the Department of Agriculture were stunned last week to receive e-mailed instructions that include Bush administration “talking points” — saying […]
About three weeks ago, stories started to surface regarding possible implications that Californian Republican representative, Randy “Duke†Cunningham, could have been involved in some dirty back room deals with a military contractor called MZM. The involvement apparently started when Mitchell Wade, the head of MZM, reportedly purchased Duke’s house in 2003 for the sum of […]