I can't think of a less sympathetic group to defend than sex offenders. But here I go.TalkLeft had a post up the other day about the predicament in which many former sex offenders find themselves once they have served their sentences and are released into communities...
LA Times:A federal judge in Los Angeles banned the U.S. Navy from using high-powered sonar in nearly a dozen upcoming training exercises off Southern California, ruling Monday that it could.
"Negging," ugh. What I don't get, though, is how would can get any action while calling yourself a practitioner of the "Venusian Arts." I mean, I would think that asshole.
I really don't know what to think at this point. Jim is certainly right so note that "you can bet that the people who insisted that TNR provide receipts for every one of Beauchamp’s claims won’t be demanding that the military recount the exact circumstances leading...
This reminds me of a Simpsons episode:A woman in Germany who has spent 55 years with part of a pencil inside her head has finally had it removed. Margret Wegner.
I think we can all agree that Rudy Giuliani is a pathetic authoritarian who -- but for the law -- would have eaten his own children in the cribs where.
Heat indexes of 103 suck.That is all.
The Indian Navy is currently operating Viraat, a 48 year old former British carrier. To rectify this, they recently purchased a twenty year old Russian carrier. Unfortunately:Russia’s main military shipyard.
So I watched the video, had a great idea for a post, but then I scrolled down and saw that Matt beat me to Romney's non-sequitur response to Ron Paul's.
This love for Liptak is becoming something of a weekly tradition. He's just been writing such damn good columns.Today - behind the TimesSelect curtain - Liptak takes on laws that require doctors to follow a certain script when they counsel women seeking abortions. There's a new...
I'm not sure if the new Temperance League has cleared this record for public consumption, but congrats to Tom Glavine. It's a little bittersweet, given how many of those involved.
Brad Plumer has a discussion of requirements that welfare recipients in San Diego submit to warrantless searches of their homes. This kind of policy presents one of the thorniest problems.