Disloyal Opposition

• So how's the 'anti-war' president doing?

  One of the big hopes for the current occupant of the White House was that he'd end his predecessor's saber-rattling ways and bring the boys (and girls) home to live their lives in relative peace.
  
  As it turns out, of course, President Barack Obama isn't anti-war -- he's anti-the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:27pm EST
  

• Blinded by science

  There's much buzz this week -- rightfully -- about emails and documents hacked from the servers of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. While the emails aren't likely to settle the debate over whether human actions are affecting the world's climate,' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:05pm EST
  

• Sheriff Joe faces off with judge over deputy's courtroom document theft

  
  There aren't too many ways to evoke sympathy for a law-enforcement officer who was recorded stealing documents from a defense attorney, but in Arizona, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe may have stumbled on the trick. In the case of Detention Officer Adam Stoddard,' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:01pm EST
  

• Chance at a real trial for Cory Maye

  One of the more controversial prisoners behind the bars of any prison in the United States -- Cory Maye -- is getting a new trial. After eight years in a Mississippi prison for killing a police officer, during which time his case has raised questions about paramilitary police tactics, [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:56pm EST
  

• How can you call the federal stimulus a boondoggle?

  It's not quite up to the standards of Depression-era court-packing, but the Obama administration is getting creative about  the number of congressional districts it claims to have bailed out with manna rained down from heaven fearless leader.
  Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• He would have been better off shooting first

  Most of us would probably think that a man who found himself being followed down a dark street by two people at midnight and turned to ask, "why are you following me?" while holding a folding pocket knife pointed down along his leg was just being careful. His actions seem [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:20pm EST
  

• Feds want to know: Just who are your readers?

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that, on January 30 of this year, the Justice Department not only demanded to know who was reading the IndyMedia alternative news site, but also forbade the site to publicize the demand.
  [T]he government was asking for the IP address of every one of [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:11pm EST
  

• An actual economist examines Obamacare and says it makes no sense

  According to Martin Feldstein, professor of economics at Harvard University and president emeritus of the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research:
  
  A key feature of the House and Senate health bills would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. The new coverage would start [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:26pm EST
  

• Docs on dope

  At its 2009 interim meeting, the American Medical Association has adopted a statement urging that marijuana be considered as medicine and that further research be conducted into its medical value. The statement was recommended by the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health, based on a report which endorses' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  

• The health benefits of a stay in the slammer

  Whether you support or oppose the health-care bill that passed in the House of Representatives over the weekend and now faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, there's no doubt that it will do at least one thing: if passed into law, the unprecedented expansion of the role' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:49am EST
  

• Is it time to get the state out of marriage yet?

  In Maine, voters continued the unbroken national trend that has seen voters reject the idea of expanding the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples every time it comes to a vote. Even the apparent approval of everything-but-marriage domestic partnerships in Washington state can only slightly soften the sting, given [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

• Arpaio's goons have an interesting take on attorney-client privilege

  Arizona Defense Attorney Joanne Cuccia was in court at the podium arguing on behalf of her client during a sentencing hearing when that client, Antonio Lozano, noticed two detention officers pilfering a document from Cuccia's fies behind her back. The incident, captured on video, interrupted the hearing, enraged defense attorneys' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:29pm EST
  

• Court reduces itself to rubber-stamp approval for torture

  Fretting that allowing a lawsuit to proceed could interfere with national security concerns and damage U.S. relations with other countries, a majority of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Maher Arar, a Syrian-Canadian, cannot sue the United States after American agents [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:25pm EST
  

• (Secret) change you'll still have to hope for

  Perhaps summoning the ghosts of Bush administration officials past in celebration of Halloween, the Obama administration's Justice Department on Friday once again invoked the state secrets privilege. Government lawyers argued that allowing plaintiffs in the case of Shubert v. United States to raise their allegations of civil liberties violations' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:48pm EST