From Jamie Spencer, Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer:"Judges Can't Sentence "Drugs" to Prison. Instead, they sentence people to prison. So let’s just be honest about it, and start calling it the 'War on Drug Users', OK?"How right he is. Punishing drug addiction is unconstitutional since addiction is...
Today is the 134th anniversary of the massacre in Colfax, Louisiana, where white and black militias clashed in an Easter Sunday battle that left scores of blacks dead. According to.
There's been a lot of press recently about wrongly convicted men who have been exonerated by DNA evidence. No doubt, the work of the Innocence Project and other organizations that.
Obviously, Paul Wolfowitz's personal corruption is both bad in itself and undermines the anti-corruption principles he's purportedly trying to bring to the World Bank. As John Cassidy's recent profile informs us, however, there's another major example of his rather selective application of anti-corruption principles. First, there's...
One would think that the trite point above requires little elaboration, but apparently there is some controversy about the matter. Professor B, Jessica, Echidne, zuzu, Sara, Amanda, Lindsay, and Melissa.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
This post compels me to steal Atrios' bit.
I was rather annoyed, while eating dinner in my hotel's retaurant, that they sat a party at the table next to me well after what I was told was the.
This is perhaps the stupidest question I'll ever ask on this blog, but here it is:Which of the following layover scenarios strikes y'all as the least hideous?(a) Eight hours in Cincinnati;(b) Six hours in Atlanta;(c) Nine hours in Seattle.Each option gets me back to Juneau at...
Loomis does some good work with Old Slow Trot, George Thomas. Thomas was, for all intents and purposes, written out of history because he didn't conform to the post-reconstruction archetype.
Today is the anniversary of the massacre of Union soldiers at Ft. Pillow, Tennessee, in 1864. Located in Jackson Henning, Tennessee, about 40 miles from Memphis, the fortress complex had.