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Admirers of Constitution Booted for Wearing Impeach T-shirts

Posted on January 13, 2008
With the original First Amendment "Freedom of Speech" looking on, admirers of the U.S. Constitution in the Washington D.C. National Archives Building today were ordered to leave for wearing tee-shirts reading "Impeach Bush and Cheney." Many of the tourist-activists were in town to hail the arrival of impeachment marcher John Nirenberg...

Court battle between Episcopal Church and 11 congregations

Posted on January 13, 2008
The attorney general of Virginia has filed a motion to intervene in the court battle between the Episcopal Church and 11 breakaway congregations, arguing that he is obliged to defend the constitutionality of a state statute at the center of the trial...

Navy JAG Resigns Over Torture Issue

Posted on January 13, 2008
It was in the much-publicized interview two weeks ago between Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, who is the chief legal adviser at the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions, that led Williams to resign. In the interview, Graham asked Hartmann how the uniformed legal community should respond if the Iranian government used waterboarding to torture a U...

Iraq/Afghan veterans have killed 121 after coming home

Posted on January 13, 2008
The NY Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war. In many of those cases, combat trauma and the stress of deployment along with alcohol abuse, family discord and other attendant problems ? appear to have set the stage for a tragedy read more | digg story

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US might lose triple A Credit Rating since 1917 - Moody.

Posted on January 13, 2008
The US is at risk of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating within a decade unless it takes radical action to curb soaring healthcare and social security spending, Moody?s, the credit rating agency, said on Thursday.The warning over the future of the triple-A rating granted to US government debt since it was first assessed in 1917 read more | digg story

CRAZY: Boy Injures Dozens by Playing Trains w/City Trams

Posted on January 13, 2008
A POLISH schoolboy who turned a city's tram network into a giant toy by maneuvering rolling stock using a TV-style remote control has been arrested after he caused chaos on the public transport system.read more | digg story

Man Apologizes for Vulgar Check

Posted on January 13, 2008
A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him.read more | digg story

Pakistan: parties slam deportation of US journalist

Posted on January 13, 2008
Political parties in Pakistan have criticised the deportation of US journalist and also harassment to the media people by government agencies. read more | digg story

School Attorney Nixes Biblical Verse At Graduation

Posted on January 13, 2008
In Finn Rock, Oregon, the school district's attorney has told McKenzie High School students that they may not adopt a Biblical verse to use on official graduation announcements. read more | digg story

Waterboarding would be torture if it were me, Mike McConnell

Posted on January 13, 2008
US national intelligence chief Mike McConnell has said the interrogation technique of water-boarding "would be torture" if he was subjected to it.read more | digg story

University of Chicago Law Review: 25 Years of Richard Posner

Posted on January 13, 2008
The University of Chicago Law Review, Issue 74:Special (Commemorating Twenty-five Years of Judge Richard A. Posner)read more | digg story

Man sodomized stepson to avenge daughter's rape

Posted on January 13, 2008
A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager?s alleged rape of the man?s 8-year-old daughter, police said...Police say the father caught him assaulting his daughter, and a subsequent examination at a hospital revealed the girl had been sodomized...

Teacher slaps whole class of elementary school students

Posted on January 13, 2008
YOKOHAMA -- An elementary school teacher is in hot water for hitting all the children in her class after misbehavior from only a handful of students, school officials have admitted.read more | digg story

National Guardsman Loses Custody Due to Deployment

Posted on January 13, 2008
The case, Diffin v. Diffin involves a mother who got custody of her son a part of a divorce settlement in 2000. In April 2004, the mother got mobilized and went to Iraq...When the mother returned, the Family Court awarded custody to the father... The reason was that because her military service, she has a less settled life...

Blog battle becomes free speech case

Posted on January 13, 2008
...a retired minister began a blog that blasted the state Department of Children, Youth and Families and others involved in the case, saying they?d used a ?bogus theory? to take a mother?s two daughters from her and to send one of the sisters to live with the father ? after the father had been accused of sexually abusing the girl...

No Pants on MAX event

Posted on January 13, 2008
No Pants on MAX participants are instructed to gather at Holladay Park near the Lloyd Center/Northeast 11th Avenue MAX Station. 4:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 12. No money needed, the ride will only extend through Fareless Square. For more info, visit Facebook...

Illegal immigrants will be rounded-up by roaming prison vans

Posted on January 12, 2008
Prison vans are to cruise the streets of Britain searching for illegal - immigrants. The "mobile detention centres" will aim to catch recently arrived foreigners as they emerge from people smuggling lorries. Immigration officers will hold the suspects inside the vans until background checks are performed...

High court defies lawmakers on salaries

Posted on January 12, 2008
A bill passed by the 2007 Legislature set the maximum salaries that can be paid to state employees, including those who work for the Supreme Court. The court, however, says that law does not apply to it and has ordered the state?s payroll system to pay an annual salary of $135,240 to court administrator Ron Titus, effective immediately...

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