Ok, reader poll time: should we care that Barack Obama used cocaine as a teenager? My answer: no. It's totally irrelevant to his ability to lead this country. The only use of this information (and not even a legit one at that) is as a...
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Last night, after I finished my exam and my brain had oozed out of my ears and then been reconstituted, I listened to a recent "This American Life" that KMZ.
Tomorrow I will take an 8 hour federal courts take home exam. 8 hours. of exam. in federal courts. It will be shocking if my brain does not ooze out.
Bush vetoed S-Chip today. Again. As in, for the second time. Why? Well, here's what White House Spokesperson Dana Perino had to say:“This Congress failed to send the president legislation that puts children first, and instead they sent for a second time one that would...
So, I was all ready to write a serious post today applauding the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) for making the new, reduced crack sentencing guidelines retroactive. Between this and.
There's word today that New Jersey is poised to repeal the death penalty in the state. The senate passed the bill, which will now go to the democrat-controlled house and.
Scott covered the important points in his post about the Supreme Court's decision today in Gall and Kimbrough. Boiled down, the Court in these cases says that it meant what it said in Booker: the Sentencing Guidelines are just that -- suggestions -- and federal...
We've said it before and we'll say it again. The "pro-life" movement could not actually care less about life. The most basic proof of this: the violence that "pro-lifers" exert.
There's a lot of sturm und drang about the state of abortion laws in this country -- and rightly so. Several states are trying an end run around Roe by.
In 2006, for the first time since 1991, the teenage birthrate rose in the United States. The rate went up three percent. The increase was highest among black teenagers, but there were increases among white and Latino teens as well. What's more, the U.S. rate...
The Washington Post has a story today about Murat Kurnaz, a German man of Turkish origin who wasted away in Guantanamo for four years despite conclusive intelligence reports that he.
...I would definitely buy this little ornament (via Jill): As if the ornament itself were not enough, there's a hilarious (NB: and fake) product description that goes along with the.