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Have I The Right?

Posted on February 27, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Today we have The Honeycombs in glorious STEREO!

Do The Rooms Come With Fire Hydrants: Paris Has Luxury Pet Hotel

Posted on February 27, 2011
Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger Jet-setting canines have a new stop on the luxury hotel circuit. Hoteliers in Paris have opened a new dogs-only luxury hotel. To cater to their four-legged guests, Devi and Stan Burun, have included a heated pool, masseuse, televisions equipped with DVDs, and a doggie workout room with treadmills and [...

Big Corporations and Federal Taxes

Posted on February 27, 2011
Submitted by Lawrence Rafferty, (rafflaw), Guest Blogger With the constant news reports highlighting the economic woes of the State and Federal governments and the important battle in Wisconsin and other states over the claim that workers need to sacrifice a little more to help out their state governments, it is interesting to learn just how much [...

Birthright Citizenship Was the Original Intent

Posted on February 26, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA) claims that birthright citizenship “undermines the intention of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Arizona Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills alleged that “if you go back to the original intent of the drafters … it was never intended to bestow citizenship upon aliens...

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Giles County School Board Obeys Constitution

Posted on February 26, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger The school board in Giles County, VA, has decided to remove the Ten Commandments posters in all local schools. The Virginia ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation had plaintiffs and threatened lawsuits that the school board would have almost surely lost...

Uptown

Posted on February 26, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Today we present The Crystals in glorious STEREO!

Is Free Speech Really Free?

Posted on February 26, 2011
  Submitted by Lawrence Rafferty, (rafflaw), Guest Blogger   After a few recent discussions about Free Speech in earlier threads, I came across another example of how limited our Free Speech really is.  At a recent speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a former CIA employee, Ray McGovern, attempted to protest her speech about [...

Is the Scott Walker Story Just the Tip of the Koch Brothers? Political Iceberg?

Posted on February 26, 2011
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger Last week I wrote up a post titled Scott Walker: A Fiscally Responsible Governor or a Politician Who Is Playing Favorites?. Judging from the number of comments left at that post, it appears that people are very interested in what?s been going on in the state of Wisconsin...

Former MADD President in Florida Arrested for DUI

Posted on February 25, 2011
In one of the more awkward mug shots, Devra Oberlin, 48, has been arrested for DUI. Nothing strange there. Thousands are arrested under such charges every year. However, Oberlin is the former president of the local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)...

Roger Ailes Accused of Encouraging Judith Regan To Lie To Federal Investigators

Posted on February 25, 2011
Filings in Judith Regan’s pending lawsuit have revealed the identity of the person who she says encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her affair with former New York police commissioner, Homeland Security nominee and subsequent convicted felon Bernard Kerick...

Religiously Redneck: Florida Prisoners Lists Rednecks As His Religion on Booking Form

Posted on February 25, 2011
As Jeff Foxworthy might say, you know you’re a Redneck if you actually write down “Redneck” on your booking form under religion. That stand-up (and line-up) line properly goes to Joshua Lee Joehlin, who has become the first religiously Redneck inmate in Florida...

Grappling . . . Grappling . . . I?ll Let You Know: Obama Remains Undecided on Gay Marriage

Posted on February 25, 2011
Some of us have raised objections for the last two years on President Obama’s conflicting positions on gay rights. Now, White House Spokesman Jay Carney was able to nail down concretely the President’s position on gay marriage: he is still “grappling” with it...

That?s Why They Call It Sue-Shi: Los Angeles Man Sues Over Denial of All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Bar

Posted on February 25, 2011
There is an interesting case in Los Angeles where David Martin found an all-you-can-eat offer at a Sushi restaurant a bit fishy . . . or perhaps not fishy enough. Martin went to the Studio City restaurant to take advantage of the all you can eat deal for $28...

Seventeen Police Officers Arrested in Kickback Scheme

Posted on February 24, 2011
Seventeen police officers and the owners of the Majestic Auto Repair Shop have been arrested in an extortion scheme involving thousands of dollars of kickbacks from towing cases. The officers are accused of illegally steering car accident victims to the Majestic Auto Repair shop for kickbacks...

A Little Touch of Tripoli: Indiana Deputy Attorney General Calls For Use of Live Fire Against Protesters In Wisconsin

Posted on February 24, 2011
Indiana Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Cox has reportedly been fired after Mother Jones Magazine identified him as the source of a tweet denouncing liberals and calling for the use of live ammunition against teacher protesters in Wisconsin. The case again raises the question of when personal statements of public employees can be used against them...

Tennessee Legislators Move To Make Adherence to Sharia Law a Felony

Posted on February 24, 2011
State Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, and state Rep. Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma, have introduced a bill that would make it a felony to adhere to Sharia law in the state of Tennessee — punishable by 15 years in jail. The facially unconstitutional law would make Tennessee the leading state in the Union in the denial of [...

Jeff Cox Responds to Criticism in Mother Jones Article

Posted on February 24, 2011
After the posting this morning over the controversy involving former Indiana Deputy Attorney General Jeff Cox, I had an opportunity to discuss the allegations with him in detail. Cox makes an interesting free speech case over his treatment and later termination for comments that he made on Twitter and on his blog...

The Sharia Shag Cut: Male Hairdressers Ordered To Stop Cutting Women?s Hair

Posted on February 23, 2011
The hardline Islamic government in Gaza has implemented another edict under Sharia law. This time male hairdressers were told that they would be arrested if they continued to cut women’s hair. The story below includes accounts of how the Gaza police called each hairdresser into a room where they had an unrelated detainees hanging by [...

Obama Administration Refuses To Defend The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

Posted on February 23, 2011
For two years, some of us have been criticizing President Obama for his Administration’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in federal courts. The Justice Department has now announced that it has decided to reverse its position and refuse to further defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)...

Delaware Supreme Court Overturns Ruling That Movie Announcement to Turn Off Cellphones Was Racist

Posted on February 23, 2011
There is an interesting case out of Delaware where the Supreme Court overturned a decision by the state Human Relations Commission that the manager of a Dover cinema, David Stewart, was racist for asking people in a largely black movie audience to turn off their cellphones and refrain from talking during the movie...

House Overwhelmingly Rejects Ron Paul?s Effort To End Afghan War and To Save $116 Billion Annually

Posted on February 23, 2011
We have been discussing the failure of President Obama and both parties to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while our cities and states continue to sell off property and shutdown vital programs due to a lack of money (here and here and here and here and here)...

Every Teacher in Providence Given Pink Slip Due To Expected Budget Shortfalls

Posted on February 23, 2011
We just saw how Michigan has responded to budget shortfalls by ordering the closure of half of Detroit’s school – pushing the class size to 60 students. Now, Supt. Tom Brady has gone one better: issuing pink slips to all of the teachers in the school system in anticipation of dire budget cuts...

And You Thought You Were A Good Father?

Posted on February 23, 2011
I thought that I was a good father until I saw this clip of what a father did after 80 hours of snow-shoveling in Lake Tahoe. I will not longer brag of the Igloo village we built last year. I will not stay in my room and avoid the gaze of my children ...

Citizens of Utah Demand Recall of Wisconsin Senators

Posted on February 23, 2011
It appears that the people of Utah feel deeply about representation in Wisconsin. A Utah based group calling itself the American Recall Coalition has filed to campaign for the recall of Democratic senators who remain in hiding to stop legislation curtailing labor rules for teachers...

Illinois To End Funding of Alcohol and Drug Programs While Michigan Orders Detroit To Close Half of Its Schools

Posted on February 22, 2011
As we continue to spend billions every week in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, states continue to cut basic programs for lack of funding. The latest is Illinois, which just cut all funding for drug and alcohol abuse treatment in the state and Michigan which has ordered Detroit to close half of its schools [...

Karzai Moves to Take Over (and Shutdown) Women?s Shelters

Posted on February 22, 2011
Afghan women and public interest groups are opposing an effort of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to take over all of the shelters for abused and battered women. You may recall Karzai’s earlier feminist agenda when he initially support the legalization of rape...

Texas Tech Freezes Faculty Salaries While Giving Its Football Coach a $500,000 Year Pay Increase

Posted on February 22, 2011
Texas Tech University seems to be sending a rather curious message about its priorities. Faculty members are objecting after the administration froze faculty salaries for the entire university but then gave Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville a $500,000 a year raise...

Colorado Boy Arrested For Inappropriate Stick Drawing

Posted on February 22, 2011
We have yet another example of mindless school policies leading to an equally mindless arrest. An eleven-year-old Arvada Colorado boy was arrested for drawing an inappropriate stick figure — even though his therapist had told him to draw such pictures as a way to managing his emotions...

Arizona Aims To Make Colt The Official State Gun

Posted on February 22, 2011
We recently saw how Utah was moving toward the establishment of the M1911 as the first official state gun. Now, Arizona is aiming to beat Utah to the prize by naming the Colt single-action Army revolver as its official state gun. Over 40 Arizona state legislators have called for the establishment of the state gun...

City Stops Payment of Legal Fees for Accused Police Officers

Posted on February 22, 2011
Mayor William Lantigua of Lawrence. Massachusetts has announced that the city will no longer pay legal bills for police officers, including the bills for officers currently in court in nine brutality cases pending in U.S. District Court. City Councilor Daniel Rivera, chairman of the budget committee, complained that the city was paying “Cadillac prices” for [...

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