Posted in constitution, criminal law, economics, politics on December 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Why are churches tax-exempt?
I’ve got no problem with people getting rich — I’ve got a lot of problems with people doing it by stealing money from the taxpayers while wearing a cross and condemning others’ morality.
You would think that an enlightened society would have rules to keep this sort of thing from happening…
Posted in copyright, fair use, free (or not) software, internet, technology on December 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some people never learn. After DVD Jon cracked CSS so that people could decrypt DVDs under linux without paying a fee to the movie industry cartel, you would think that the movie industy would take the hint and give up on the whole idea of selling encrypted media to customers. Unfortunately, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray both [...]
Posted in criminal law, politics on December 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
President Bush issued 16 pardons this week. Almost half were for convictions resulting from drug offenses. For the moment, let’s put aside the issues associated with criminalizing drugs, and with crimes of possession in general, and with having a president who is widely acknowledged to be not totally unfamiliar with substance abuse in general and [...]
Posted in civil procedure, free (or not) software, internet, prejudice, technology on December 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I love surfing over to groklaw every now and then to remind myself how I got here. Last week, PJ put up a fine article about the beginning of Iowa’s antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. “Wait a minute,” I hear you saying, “I thought that was all over with- Judge Jackson was removed for prejudicial bias, [...]
Posted in internet, politics on December 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been having final exams for the last week, so my brain has been pretty scattered apart from the subject matter coming up on the next test. I’ve been pretty focused on question-and-answer mode. Tests are pretty useful in the context of trying to figure out whether you know what you need to know. Maybe [...]
Posted in civil procedure, criminal law, politics, torts on December 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve already seen that Rumsfeld won’t [voluntarily] be taking a vacation in Germany any time soon. Now it looks like things aren’t so friendly on this side of the pond either.
In a federal courtroom today, nine former prisoners at U.S. military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will seek through an unusual lawsuit [...]
Posted in criminal law, politics on December 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This Slate article is from 2003. It’s about the lies that Judy wrote in the New York Times to help Dick Cheney drag the country into Iraq.
Judy Miller repeatedly pushed questionable intelligence — most of which turned out to be false — on the front pages of the New York Times, influencing public debate on [...]
