From Slate’s Why the California Supreme Court did more than legalize gay marriage: “Chief Justice Ronald M. George first found that the exclusion of gays from marriage violated their fundamental right to marry, thereby drawing strict scrutiny from the court. This meant that the state would have to produce a compelling reason to bar gays [...]
September 25, 2007 – 10:02 am
From NORML’s press release, Marijuana Arrests For 2006 Tops Record High…Nearly 6 Percent Increase Over 2005: “Police arrested a record 829,625 persons for marijuana violations in 2006, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. This is the largest total number of annual arrests for pot ever recorded by the [...]
September 4, 2007 – 02:16 pm
From the NY Tmes Op-Ed, America’s Toe-Tapping Menace: “What is shocking about Senator Larry Craig’s bathroom arrest is not what he may have been doing tapping his shoe in that stall, but that Minnesotans are still paying policemen to tap back.” [A take on the Craig scandal that didn't even occur to me, which is [...]
April 23, 2007 – 12:05 pm
From The Case Against 21: “In the first four years of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 563 Americans under the age of 21 were killed in the line of duty. These citizen soldiers were old enough to vote, old enough to put on military uniforms, and old enough to die for their country: They were old enough [...]
January 31, 2007 – 03:33 pm
From Bush Is Not Above the Law: “Laws are broken, the federal government investigates, and the individuals involved — even if they’re presidents — are tried and, if found guilty, punished. That is the way it is supposed to work under our system of government. But not this time.”
January 25, 2007 – 12:33 pm
From ESPN.com: Outrageous Injustice: “Once, he was the homecoming king at Douglas County High. Now he’s Georgia inmate No. 1187055, convicted of aggravated child molestation. When he was a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th grader. He was 17. She was 15. Everyone, including the girl and the prosecution, agreed [...]
April 23, 2006 – 04:09 pm
Last year about this time, I posted my final paper for my government 101 class up at Alaska Pacific University. It was called “The worm in the core,” and it was all about Apple’s lawsuit to find out who leaked its trade secrets to a couple of bloggers, bloggers who are protecting their sources because [...]
April 22, 2006 – 12:31 pm
We’ve got some lawyers who read this site and some people who date lawyers; we’ve also got some philosophers on this site. We’ve also got people who simply enjoy a good, thoughtful read (though I fear that my posts fail this last group most of all). Anyway, for all you folks I just mentioned, you [...]
April 26, 2005 – 02:34 pm
Why is it that all the important questions come up in areas where the necessary answer is difficult to defend? It could be because Progress likes to have its fun with us, as if it was saying, “You want to continue down the path of a mature society? Well, you’re going to have to walk [...]
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