500 released mental patients given one-way bus ticket...
Yesterday the WSJ published an editorial on the Christopher Lane case: Some are focusing on the ease of obtaining a gun in the U.S., as (inevitably) is the reflexive CNN, and it would almost be a relief if we could blame such a murder on guns. Then we...
Mideast Media Sampler 08/23/2013...
A UK court has limited authorities’ access to digital data that was seized from the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, except in the case of national security purposes. David Miranda was detained and questioned for nearly nine hours Sunday as he transited through Heathrow airport...
Gee, I wonder why . . . ALBANY, N.Y. — A new report from the nonprofit Tax Foundation shows people moving out of the state during the last decade took $45.6 billion in personal income from New York's economy, the most in the nation. The Washington, D.C.-based...
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman, was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, for a hearing on perjury charges brought against her in connection with her husband's recent murder trial. This hearing has been postponed. In place of the trial, a status conference on her upcoming...
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As a co-founder of the first San Diego Tea Party group, I appreciate grassroots activism that lights fires under our politicos. I would like to feature two new citizen-organized protests and update my Legal Insurrection friends on the local one I have been closely following. They...
I reported earlier this morning about The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013. An open question is who knew what and when. Clearly the Oberlin administration and the local police were aware of the culprits and that it was a hoax prior to the campus...
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My first reaction when I saw this on Twitter was, is this a joke? The day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison, this? Apparently it's serious. Manning announced on NBC via a letter that he will sue to force the Army to pay...
A massive racism hoax took place at Oberlin College in February 2013 in which two students made seemingly racist, anti-Semitic and other such posters, graffiti and emails for the purpose of getting a reaction on campus, not because they believed the hostile messages. At least one of the...
Through no fault of his own, aspiring baseball player Christopher Lane of Australia was in the wrong place at the wrong time. "The wrong place" was jogging on a street in Duncan, Oklahoma. The wrong time was when a trio of teens with random murder in...
Reports are coming out of Syria today that the government may have launched a chemical attack outside Damascus; as is common in these situations, the reports are murky and the Syrian government has, not surprisingly, denied the accusation. From the Washington Post: Syrian activists accused the government...
There has been an important ruling on a court case involving the construction of California's budget-busting high speed train. And provisions written into the ballot measure approved by voters when they agreed to the train may save them from its unintended consequences. A Sacramento judge ruled...
Just as the NSA-Snowden leak story was being broken by The Guardian via Glenn Greenwald, and to a lesser extent at The Washington Post, I thought about writing a post with the title this post bears. In the crush of other things, and the uncertainty as...
Bradley Manning was sentenced by a military judge today to 35 years in prison for releasing classified information to Wikileaks, the largest leak in US history. https://twitter.com/RT_America/status/370188191803772928 The army soldier apologized to the court last week, saying “I am sorry that my actions hurt people; I am...
A 20 year old (former) psychology student from Georgia Southern University was sentenced to five years of probation, during which he is banned from using social media, after he pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats. Caleb Jamaal Clemmons was arrested in February after posting a message...
